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The Year of Faith opens with a Mass in St. Peter Square in Vatican City Oct. 11, marking the 50th anniversary of opening of the Second Vatican Council. Click on a headline to read a selected story from Arkansas Catholic's Oct. 6, 2012, special report about the year dedicated to encouraging Catholics to study, profess and demonstrate their faith.
ROGERS -- Cars snake their way through the parking lot, winding around orange pylons and following the hand motions of the adults as they direct traffic and speak into their walkie-talkies.
Sound like a football game or parking for the craft fairs? It is actually neither.
This scene plays itself out every Sunday evening at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Rogers as more than 730 Life Teen and Edge students are dismissed from the school gymnasium More... 
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Here are the 16 documents approved by the Second Vatican Council, which ran from Oct. 11, 1962, to Dec. 8, 1965, and their dates of promulgation:
Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy ("Sacrosanctum Concilium"), Dec. 4, 1963. It ordered an extensive revision of worship so that people would have a clearer sense of their own involvement in the Mass and other rites.
Decree on the Instruments of Social Communication ("Inter Mirifica"), Dec. 4, More...
Arkansas' representative at the Second Vatican Council, Bishop Albert L. Fletcher, recognized early on how the diversity of the council attendees could change the Church.
"It was an unusual sight. There must have been a thousand prelates in that one long hall about a block long and 75-feet wide. They were of all colors and races, spoke almost every language under the sun and although they all wore a white miter and a cape, they were More...
The Diocese of Little Rock and parishes around the state are hosting special events to celebrate the Year of Faith. Please consult the diocese or parish for more details.
Carlisle
St. Rose of Lima Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe, Nine homes in Lonoke, Dec. 3 -11, 7 p.m.
Posada, Nine homes in Lonoke, Dec. 16-24, 7 p.m.
Novena to St. Rose of Lima, Nine homes in Lonoke, Aug. 14-22, 2013, 7 p.m., Contact: More...
Bishop Anthony B. Taylor presented this recorded audio message at all Masses Oct. 6-7 to kick off the Year of Faith.
Last March I traveled to Rome for my first "ad limina" visit as bishop of Little Rock. The best part of our trip was our audience with the Holy Father, which highlighted for me what a grace the upcoming Year of Faith can be for us.
This Year of Faith begins Oct. 11, 2012 More...
PARAGOULD -- Father Mike Sinkler, pastor of St. Mary Parish, is taking the Year of Faith as an opportunity to help his parish get to know Jesus on a personal level.
"It's a teachable moment for all of us, and I want to help our parishioners get to know Jesus, not just to know about him. To know who he is and have a personal encounter with him," he said.
To celebrate and promote the new More...
VATICAN CITY -- With a hymn and a prayer, Italian Archbishop Rino Fisichella presented the Vatican's initial calendar of events for the Year of Faith, which begins with a Mass Oct. 11 in St. Peter's Square.
Archbishop Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, said the pope has invited as concelebrants bishops and theologians who, like the pontiff, served as members or experts at the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council.
The archbishop said he hoped More...
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