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By: The Catholic Post - October 17, 2018 -
Movie Review
Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Myers
Jamie Lee Curtis stars in the movie "Halloween." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Some interesting exposition exploring the long-term psychological effects on the heroine (Jamie Lee Curtis) of the eponymous 1978 slasher classic of her near-fatal encounter with masked madman Michael Myers (Nick Castle) during the first of his many blood-soaked rampages soon gives way to an orgy of gruesome and, in at least […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 15, 2018 -
Featured Article
The banners of new saints Oscar Romero and Paul VI hang from the facade of St. Peter's Basilica as Pope Francis celebrates the canonization Mass for seven new saints in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 14. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
By Cindy Wooden / Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Carrying Pope Paul VI’s pastoral staff and wearing the blood-stained belt of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, Pope Francis formally recognized them, and five others, as saints of the Catholic Church. Thousands of pilgrims from the new saints’ home countries — Italy, El […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 14, 2018 -
News Article
Father James E. King
A funeral Mass will be offered at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 19, at St. Mark Church in Peoria for Father James Edward King, a former pastor of parishes in Creve Coeur and East Moline who also served in Hispanic ministry throughout the Diocese of Peoria. Father King, a priest of the diocese who had […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 12, 2018 -
Movie Review
Madison Iseman, Jeremy Ray Taylor and Caleel Harris star in a scene from the movie "Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service Weak follow-up to the 2015 original revolves around two boys (Jeremy Ray Taylor and Caleel Harris) who find an old manuscript by R.L. Stein (Jack Black) — the real-life author of the “Goosebumps” books — and, by opening it, unleash an evil ventriloquist’s dummy (voice of Mick Wingert) who proceeds to […]
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By: Tom Dermody - October 12, 2018 -
News Article
date night, DCCW, Jim Healy, Marriage
Jim Healy makes a point during his Sept. 29 presentation "How to be Married and Stay Engaged." The talk was part of a "date night" hosted by the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
The dance of a Catholic marriage is a “sacramental three-step” modeled on the Paschal Mystery, a family life expert told couples on a date night Sept. 29 hosted by the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. “It happens over and over,” said Jim Healy of the process of loving, letting go, and rising again in marriage. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 11, 2018 -
Featured Article
A procession leaves St. Patrick Church in Washington on its way to the city's downtown square on Sunday, Oct. 7. There the group prayed the rosary as part of a nationwide effort called the Rosary Coast to Coast campaign. On Saturday, Oct. 13, many parishes will take part in Public Square Rosary rallies that begin at noon. October is a month of special devotion to the Holy Rosary. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
Several locations in the Diocese of Peoria are hosting simultaneous local prayers this Saturday, Oct. 13, in conjunction with a Public Square Rosary Crusade coordinated nationally by the group America Needs Fatima. The rallies to pray for our country take place annually on the closest Saturday to Oct. 13, the feast of Our Lady of […]
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By: Tom Dermody - October 11, 2018 -
News Article
Charles Owens, Jacinta Boynton, Jan Smith, Josephine Boynton, Pete Smith, Respect Life Dinner, Thomas Brejcha
Thomas Brejcha, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Society, speaks at the Respect Life Dinner in Peoria on Oct. 7. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
People of faith need to be heard in the public square despite efforts to silence them, the keynote speaker for the 37th annual Respect Life Dinner said in Peoria on Oct. 7. “If we don’t put our values there on display — unflinchingly, eloquently, unreservedly — why should anyone pay attention to us,” asked Thomas […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 11, 2018 -
Movie Review
Jeff Bridges and Cynthia Erivo star in a scene from the movie "Bad Times at the El Royale." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling.(CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Religion in general and Catholicism in particular are central to this intense, challenging drama from writer-director Drew Goddard. In 1969, a strange array of guests checks into the past-its-prime hotel of the title which straddles the Nevada-California state line. They include a mild-mannered priest (an enthralling Jeff Bridges), a hard-edged hippie […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 11, 2018 -
Living the Word
By Tim Irwin Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Oct. 14 Wisdom 7:7-11; Psalm 90:12-13,14-15,16-17; Hebrews 4:12-13; Mark 10:17-30 This Sunday’s Gospel presents a challenge that seems impossible to follow while acquainting us with the disciple who never was. The story begins just as Jesus and his disciples have begun the journey to Jerusalem that will culminate in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 11, 2018 -
News Article
Karen Metzinger accepts the Foundation Award on Sept. 28. Looking on are (from left) her husband, Bob Metzinger, who shared the award; Fatehr Kyle Lucas, chaplain; and Randy Simmons, principal. (Provided photo)
As part of homecoming activities, Peoria Notre Dame High School honored Bob and Karen (Crowley) Metzinger with its Foundation Award and gave the Distinguished Alumni Award to Donna (Malley) O’Brien, a member of the Bergan High School Class of 1970. They were recognized during an all-school Mass celebrated by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, on […]
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