By: The Catholic Post - February 3, 2023 -
Movie Review
Abby Quinn, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Dave Bautista, and Rupert Grint, star in a scene from the movie “Knock at the Cabin.” The OSV News classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (OSV News photo/Universal)
By OSV News Offbeat but effective thriller in which a quartet of intruders (led by Dave Bautista) take a vacationing same-sex couple (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) and their young adopted daughter (Kristen Cui) hostage for what turns out to be a bizarre reason. All the members of the group, they explain, have had matching […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 3, 2023 -
Book Review
Reviewed by Matthew Vander Vennet When we speak of St. Thomas Aquinas, most people familiar with the “Angelic Doctor” would tend automatically to think of his great contribution to Catholic theology and philosophy and as the Scholastic theologian par excellence. Even those more familiar with Aquinas would probably think of his two great works — […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 3, 2023 -
Columnists
My Vocation is Love l Lindsey Weishar Having recently been sick and realizing recovery times as an adult seem much longer than when I was a child, a line from Flannery O’Connor has been coming to mind: “I have never been anywhere but sick.” Diagnosed with lupus at 27 years old, O’Connor was forced to move back […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 3, 2023 -
Living the Word
Carla Oliver
EDITOR’S NOTE: Carla Oliver wrote and sent this Scripture reflection during the Jan. 22-31 pilgrimage to France led by Bishop Louis Tylka, Father Chase Hilgenbrinck and Father Patrick Henehan. The purpose of the journey, which focused on vocations, was to offer prayers for “an increase of holy priests, consecrated men and women, and strong marriages” […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - February 1, 2023 -
Featured Article
Spencer Steeves, a sophomore studying sustainable design at the University of Illinois, welcomes Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago to St. John’s Catholic Newman Center in Champaign on Jan. 29. It was a little taste of home for Steeves, who is from Lake Zurich in the Archdiocese of Chicago. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
CHAMPAIGN — St. John’s Catholic Chapel at the University of Illinois is filled with scaffolding, but it felt like a cathedral on Jan. 29 when Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago celebrated Mass for students as they start a new semester. In his opening remarks, he also noted that his visit came at the beginning of […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 1, 2023 -
News Article
Eight parishes across the Diocese of Peoria are planning Holy Hours with the diocesan traveling monstrance in February. Hosting are: Feb. 2, St. Patrick, Seneca; Feb. 6, St. Patrick, Ransom; Feb. 9, St. Patrick, Dwight; Feb. 13, St. John the Baptist, Fairbury; Feb. 16, St. Mary, El Paso; Feb. 20, Epiphany, Normal; Feb. 23, St. […]
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