Shawn Reeves
By Shawn Reeves Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / July 18 Jeremiah 23:1-6; Psalm 23:1-3,3-4,5,6; Ephesians 2:13-18; Mark 6:30-34 In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the apostles, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” This is pasturing language. Using a word often translated in the Bible as simply “the wilderness,” Jesus calls […]
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Reviewed for The Catholic Post by Nancy Piccione When my now almost-grown kids were very young, we had a saints book written for children. Let’s just say it wasn’t a smashing success. You see, I started reading to them one saint every bedtime so the kids could learn about the women and men who lived […]
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The new Sacré-Coeur Retreat Center in Magnolia remained a construction zone this week as final preparations were made for an open house on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 1, and the welcoming of the first groups to utilize the new complex. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
MAGNOLIA — Catholics making summer travel plans would do well to pencil in Sunday, Aug. 1, for a road trip to see a diocesan dream realized. The new Sacré-Coeur Retreat Center, whose construction has been hidden from public view by the wooded Illinois River bluff on which it was built, will host an open house […]
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Men and women wait for Pope Francis to lead a prayer on a day of reflection and prayer for Lebanon in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican July 1. Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, has asked parishes to take up a second collection before the end of July to assist Catholics in that troubled nation. (CNS/Guglielmo Mangiapane, pool via Reuters)
Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, has asked pastors throughout the Diocese of Peoria to take up a second collection before the end of July for Catholics living in the nation of Lebanon. “They are facing what has been called the worst economic crisis in modern history,” wrote Bishop Jenky in a letter to priests dated […]
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Robert Rogers is a songwriter and author of five books.
“Know God and Live a Life of No Regrets” is the basis for a series of talks with original music that will be given by Robert Rogers at St. John the Baptist in Rapids City and St. Anne in East Moline from Aug. 3 to 6. Rogers will speak from personal experience — he lost […]
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The new Destiny for Women Health Center (later renamed Gianna Women's Clinic) in Peoria, set to open in late August, will be located at 2805 N. Knoxville Ave. Seen here in the foreground, the pro-life Christian outreach is right next door to Planned Parenthood. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was updated to reflect a change in name in the spring of 2022. In a building next to Planned Parenthood in Peoria, work is underway to offer women who find themselves in a crisis pregnancy or have other female health-related concerns a better destiny. The Destiny for Women Health Center […]
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Pope Francis greets police officers before entering the Vatican after being discharged from Rome's Gemelli hospital following his recovery from colon surgery in this screengrab taken from a video on July 14. (CNS/Cristiano Corvino, Reuters TV screengrab)
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Ten days after undergoing intestinal surgery, Pope Francis was released from Rome’s Gemelli hospital, the Vatican confirmed. In a statement released July 14, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said that after leaving the hospital midmorning, the pope visited the Basilica of St. Mary Major to say a prayer of gratitude before the […]
Continue readingCause of Our Joy / By Katie Faley I still find just how powerful words are to be a pretty unfathomable concept. The nuances of language, and the punch of subtle differences in the words we choose, can make a huge difference. A former co-worker and I were talking in our office on a freezing, […]
Continue readingIn My Father’s House / By Paul Thomas Moore Have you ever come to love something through the eyes of someone else who loves it? I find one of the most telling testaments of the fact of faith is in following the gaze of those who love the Lord. I think of my late father-in-law, […]
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Father J. Thomas Henseler
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria on Monday morning, July 19, for Father J. Thomas Henseler, a senior priest who was a pioneer leader in the Cursillo and permanent diaconate programs of the Diocese of Peoria. Father Henseler, who also served in the Diocese of Springfield as […]
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