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By: The Catholic Post - July 14, 2021 -
Featured Article
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 […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 14, 2021 -
Columnists
Cause 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, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 14, 2021 -
Columnists
In 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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By: The Catholic Post - July 13, 2021 -
News Article
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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By: The Catholic Post - July 11, 2021 -
Movie Review
Scarlett Johansson stars in a scene from the movie "Black Widow." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service With the Avengers ensemble of superheroes temporarily in disarray, one of its members (Scarlett Johansson), from whose moniker the film takes its title, battles a Russian villain (Ray Winstone) bent on world domination. She finds potential allies in the ostensible sister (Florence Pugh) and parents (David Harbour and Rachel Weisz) with […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 11, 2021 -
Movie Review
Josh Lucas, Ana de la Reguera and Tenoch Huerta star in a scene from the movie "The Forever Purge." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Universal Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Attempts to lend dignity to this addition to the bloody franchise that began in 2013 by presenting it as a parable about political divisions in the U.S. fail in any way to disguise its essential brutality. Director Everardo Gout and screenwriter James DeMonaco put a Mexican American couple (Ana de la […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 11, 2021 -
Movie Review
Colman Domingo and Taylour Paige star in a scene from the movie "Zola." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Anna Kooris, A24)
By Catholic News Service This supposedly fact-based story, directed and co-written by Janicza Bravo, is replete with pornographic content and other objectionable elements. A stripper who works by day as a waitress (Taylour Paige) befriends a fellow peeler (Riley Keough) and agrees to a weekend trip to Florida. Along for the ride are the latter’s […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 11, 2021 -
Movie Review
This is a scene from the animated movie "The Boss Baby: Family Business." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/DreamWorks Animation)
By Catholic News Service Its chaotic plot and somewhat colicky disposition may leave viewers of this follow-up to the 2017 animated comedy wishing the stork had stayed home this time. Now grown to maturity, the brothers (voices of James Marsden and Alec Baldwin) whose childhood rivalry-turned-partnership was charted in the original have also become estranged. […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - July 2, 2021 -
News Article
ROCK ISLAND — In recent weeks, parents and supporters of Alleman High School have raised concerns — especially on social media — about the school’s direction and staffing. A primary concern has been whether Viatorian Father Daniel Mirabelli, the longtime driving force in development for the Rock Island school, would be staying. In a letter […]
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By: Tom Dermody - July 2, 2021 -
Featured Article
Following blessing and dedication ceremonies July 1 at OSF HealthCare Saint Clare Medical Center in Princeton, workers install new signage at the facility formerly known as Perry Memorial Hospital. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
PRINCETON — With gratitude for a century of service to the region and confidence as a new era begins, the former Perry Memorial Hospital here was blessed and dedicated as OSF HealthCare Saint Clare Medical Center on July 1. The ceremonies culminated almost three years of discussions and planning as OSF Saint Clare became the […]
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