Photo Caption: Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, blesses a classroom of the new St. Jude School in Peoria following a Mass of Thanksgiving at the parish on Oct. 5. Winnie Pratt, principal, looks on. By: By Jennifer Willems As he looked around the gymnasium brimming with young families and longtime parishioners at the new St. […]
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Photo Caption: In what Bishop Jenky terms an “exciting and historic event,” a first class relic of Blessed John Paul II will be coming to Peoria and Normal next month. Catholics in the Diocese of Peoria will have a special way to share the joy of the canonization of Blessed John Paul II months before […]
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Photo Caption: Abbot Philip Davey, OSB, of St. Bede Abbey in Peru and project leaders break ground for Abbey Fields of St. Bede, an assisted living and memory care community coming to Spring Valley. By: By Jennifer Willems SPRING VALLEY — For many years the monks at St. Bede Abbey have dreamed of how they […]
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PHOTO: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in a scene from the movie “Gravity.” See review below. (CNS photo/Warner Bros.) —– The following movie reviews are supplied by Catholic News Service in conjunction with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office of Film and Broadcasting. For full reviews of these films, as well as […]
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Rating: By Catholic News Service PHOTO: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in a scene from the movie “Gravity.” See review below. (CNS photo/Warner Bros.) —– The following movie reviews are supplied by Catholic News Service in conjunction with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office of Film and Broadcasting. For full reviews of […]
Continue readingBLOOMINGTON — The Parents of Priests and Seminarians will sponsor their annual POPS Seminarian Fundraiser on Friday, Oct. 11, at St. Patrick Church of Merna here. The evening, which begins with a social hour at 5:30 p.m., will also include a dinner at 6:30, a short video, and vocation talks by seminarians of the Diocese […]
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ROCK ISLAND — A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Oct. 4 in the chapel of St. Mary Monastery here for Sister Marguerite Adams, OSB. Burial followed in Calvary Cemetery. Sister Marguerite died on Oct. 1, 2013, at the monastery. She was 95.Born in Peoria on Jan. 28, 1918, Margaret E. Adams was the […]
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If your parish or school is hosting a pet blessing, email the event information to tdermody@cdop.org for inclusion on this list. — BLOOMINGTONFriday, Oct. 4, at 3:15 on the playground east of St. Mary’s School, 527 W. Jackson St. DANVILLEWednesday, Oct. 2, at 8:45 a.m. in the parking lot of Schlarman Academy’s South Campus, Vermilion […]
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