The offices of the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria, including The Catholic Post, will be closed during Christmas week.

Barring a major breaking news story, this website will also see few updates as staff enjoys a break from deadlines.

We thank you for your readership and look forward to serving you — both via newsprint and digital means — throughout 2012.

Our first newsprint issue of 2012 will be dated Jan. 8 and will include a major teaching document from Bishop Jenky on the topic of “Secularism.” The issue will also take a look back at what made headlines in the Diocese of Peoria in 2011.