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By: Tom Dermody - December 9, 2019 -
Featured Article
beatification, Bishop Jenky, novena, Sheen
In this screen grab from YouTube, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, invites participation in a nine-day novena starting on Dec. 12 asking God "to remove all obstacles" for the beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. The novena, including text and daily videos and posted at celebratesheen.com, spread quickly around the globe. The bishop is shown in front of the tomb of the famed media pioneer, author and evangelist at St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria.
Supporters of the canonization cause for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen have been invited to take part in a nine-day novena starting Dec. 12 to “petition God unceasingly to remove all obstacles” for the beatification of the media pioneer, author and evangelist. “We are confident in the power of prayer,” said Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 9, 2019 -
Movie Review
This is a poster from "Playmobil: The Movie." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents.(CNS/STXfilms)
By Catholic News Service Four years after their parents were killed in a car accident, a formerly free-spirited teen girl (Anya Taylor-Joy) and her fun-loving younger brother (Gabriel Bateman) are at odds because of her overprotectiveness. But after they’re magically transported to a world inhabited by the titular line of toys, and he is kidnapped, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 5, 2019 -
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Bloomington, Central Catholic, Distinguished, James Taber, Msgr. Mark Merdian, Noreen Dillon, Pastor, Peoria d D, principal, Rock Island, St. Mark, St. Pius X, Teacher
Dr. Noreen Dillon is congratulated by students at St. Mark School in Peoria on Principal Appreciation Day after learning that she had been named Distinguished Principal of the Year by the diocesan Office of Catholic Schools. Also recognized were Msgr. Mark Merdian, pastor of St. Pius X School in Rock Island, as Distinguished Pastor of the Year, and James Taber, longtime science teacher at Central Catholic High School in Bloomington, as Distinguished Teacher of the Year.
In the season of thanksgiving, the Office of Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Peoria is recognizing three people who have given many years of service to Catholic schools. They are Msgr. Mark Merdian, pastor of St. Pius X School in Rock Island, Distinguished Pastor of the Year; Dr. Noreen Dillon of St. Mark School […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 5, 2019 -
Movie Review
Divine Mercy, St. Faustina
Kamila Kaminska stars in a scene from the movie "Love and Mercy: Faustina." The film contains an off-screen suicide. The Catholic New Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/courtesy of Kondrat-Media)
By Catholic News Service Polish filmmaker Michal Kondrat’s docudrama tells the story of the birth and growth of the devotion to Divine Mercy that originated with the visions of Jesus (Bartosz Ziemniak) experienced in the 1930s by St. Faustina Kowalska (Kamila Kaminska). Seamlessly combining reenactments with interviews and narration, the film recounts how the saint’s […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - December 5, 2019 -
News Article
Blessed, Carthage, Father Thomas Szydlik, Immaculate Conception, parish hall
Father Thomas Szydlik leads Immaculate Conception parishioners in prayer before they share a pancake breakfast in celebration of their new parish hall being blessed in Carthage on Nov. 24. The hall can accommodate 225 people. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
CARTHAGE — Members of Immaculate Conception Church celebrated the blessing of their new parish hall on Nov. 24 the same way they saw the project through to completion — with prayer and fellowship. “May all who come here know the presence of Christ, experience the joy of his friendship, and grow in his love,” Father […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 5, 2019 -
Featured Article
A statue of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen welcomes visitors to the Sheen Museum at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
By Catholic News Service PEORIA, IL (CNS) — Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, of Peoria said Dec. 3 Vatican officials have told him that the upcoming beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen has been postponed. A news release from the Diocese of Peoria said it was informed Dec. 2 that Vatican had decided to postpone […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 5, 2019 -
Book Review
Reviewed by Sister Mary Core, OSB Sister Joan Chittister has done it again. She has written more than 60 books, is a public speaker of renown, and has once again authored a book which merits reading and serious reflection. Sister Joan says it like it is. She speaks in a prophet’s voice, for the marginalized, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 5, 2019 -
Living the Word
Shawn Reeves
By Shawn Reeves Second Sunday of Advent/Dec. 8 Isaiah 11:1-10; Psalm 72:1-2,7-8,12-13,17; Romans 15:4-9; Matthew 3:1-12 The practice of balance is often associated with Eastern mysticism. The principle of the body and mind poised in disciplined equilibrium pervades our culture’s impression of an Eastern approach to life, tethered to images of meditating Buddhist monks and resolute […]
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By: Tom Dermody - December 5, 2019 -
Editorial
A statue of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen welcomes visitors to the Sheen Museum at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
This is not the issue of The Catholic Post we had anticipated delivering to your home. It’s not the first time that planned coverage changed on deadline day and it won’t be the last — that’s life in a newsroom — but as this is written our staff is still coming to grips with Tuesday […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - December 5, 2019 -
News Article
Austin Bosse, Book, children's author, Macomb, Rosie Bosse, Seminarian, St. Paul
Author Rosie Bosse talks with students of St. Paul School in Macomb about farming, her book, "Curley, the Orphan Calf," and her son, seminarian Austin Bosse, who served at the Macomb parish over the summer. She also visited Immaculate Conception School in Monmouth and read to the students there. Provided photo
MACOMB — As seminarian Austin Bosse served at St. Paul Church here over the summer, the parish families fell in love with him and the children grew a little bit closer to God as he guided them through the ins and outs of being altar servers and helped with Totus Tuus. The connection grew even […]
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