| This trip started Friday morning in mid-town Manhattan, at the Maryknoll house near the Empire State Building, and ended up in North Little Rock, Arkansas, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church late Friday evening. Charlie was alone in the rectory this weekend and spent all his time at the church except for a couple walks over to a strip mall across the major street on which the church is located. |
| The Maryknoll House in Manhattan is on 39th Street, just three blocks from Grand Central Station on 42nd Street. (It's the low building with the clock, at the end of the ramp on the left.) The white buses are the ones I take to LaGuardia Airport. |
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| After changing planes in Chicago, I arrived at Immaculate Conception parish in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It is quite a large and dynamic parish, and unusual, in Arkansas, for having a large Catholic school. |
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| This is the rectory of Immaculate Conception parish, where I stayed. I was alone there because the pastor was away on vacation. Sometimes priests are quite happy to have a Maryknoll priest come to their parish because it gives them a chance to get away in an era where it is hard to find priest replacements. |
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Immaculate Conception Church has a modern design and a feeling of spaciousness. The main entrance way also serves as the baptistry. |
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| There aren't that many Catholics in Arkansas and so not many Catholic churches. There are even fewer Catholic schools in the Diocese of Little Rock. One of them is this large school at Immaculate Conception which has two classrooms for each grade. |
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