The former Believers Together Center Chapel at Christ the King Parish in Moline will be dedicated as the renamed Fr. Duane Jack Chapel in a ceremony on Sunday, Jan. 12 at 2 p.m. Father Jack died on Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. He was 82. As noted in his obituary in the Catholic Post Online on […]
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Pope Francis speaks at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 23, 2024. An altar painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Francesco de Rhoden hangs inside the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Rome, Italy. (Daniel Ibáñez/Catholic News Agency [left panel]; CNA file photo [right panel])
ROME/ROCK ISLAND – It was only his fourth encyclical since coming to the Chair of Peter in 2013, and clearly this one was particularly close to Pope Francis’ pastoral heart. In his encyclical Dilexit Nos (“He Loved Us”), released late last fall, Francis wrote, “The world can change, beginning with the heart.” He called for a […]
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EAST PEORIA — A Mass of Christian Burial was offered Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, here for Sister Joan Tousignant, O.S.F. Sister Joan, 89, a member of The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, died on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, at the motherhouse in East Peoria. She was born on May 11, 1935, in […]
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