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By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2019 -
News Article
Father Joel Phelps blesses St. Malachy School in Rantoul and its students, faculty, and staff after dedicating its new chapel room in this 2018 file photo. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
By Dr. Sharon Weiss, Superintendent of Schools for the Catholic Diocese of Peoria Welcome back to our school communities as we begin a new academic year! Summer is a time of rest and renewal, but we always looks forward to the excitement that a new year brings. At the celebration of Holy Mass one Sunday […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2019 -
Featured Article
Students from Corpus Christi Catholic School in Bloomington walk hand-in-hand in this file photo. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
By Lucia A. Silecchia EDITOR’S NOTE: The author is a Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America. The Catholic Post frequently publishes her column on finding the sacred in the simple called “On Ordinary Times.” We publish this one online for timeliness and interest as our schools reopen across the Diocese of Peoria. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 16, 2019 -
Movie Review
Billy Crudup, Cate Blanchett, Maria Semple, Richard Linklater
Cate Blanchett and Billy Crudup star in a scene from the movie "Where'd You Go, Bernadette." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Annapurna Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Director and co-writer Richard Linklater’s adaptation of the 2012 best-seller by Maria Semple follows a devoted mom (Cate Blanchett) but an otherwise abominable human being as she goes through mental difficulties after devastating setbacks in her architectural career. When a proposed family trip with her successful computer programmer husband (Billy Crudup) […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 16, 2019 -
Movie Review
Viveik Kalra and Nell Williams star in a scene from the movie "Blinded by the Light." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service The hardscrabble world of 1980s Luton, England, provides the setting for this touching fact-based mix of drama and comedy from writer-director Gurinder Chadha. Amid political and racial tensions, a British Pakistani teen (Viveik Kalra) aspires to be a poet but is hemmed in by his overbearing father (Kulvinder Ghir), who wants […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - August 16, 2019 -
News Article
Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco, St. John's Catholic Newman Center, weDignify
Shortly after arriving in the Diocese of Peoria in 2015, Pamela Rose Suresca (kneeling fourth from left) attended a celebration of consecrated life at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria. Also pictured is Sister Theresa Lee, FMA (kneeling sixth from left), who is now vocations director for the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco, the community Suresca hopes to enter in September. (The Catholic Post file photo/Jennifer Willems)
CHAMPAIGN — Miracles can be hard to come by, but Pamela Rose Suresca isn’t letting that stop her from pursuing one as if the rest of her life depends on it. Suresca, who recently ended her job as director of mission formation for weDignify in Champaign, hopes to enter the Daughters of Mary Help of […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 16, 2019 -
Movie Review
profanity, strong sexual content
Keith L. Williams, Jacob Tremblay and Brady Noon star in a scene from the movie in "Good Boys." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Three youthful actors (Jacob Tremblay, Brady Noon and Keith L. Williams) are shamefully exploited as the script of this supposed comedy has them interacting with sex toys, online pornography and drugs. While the underlying implication throughout director and co-writer Gene Stupnitsky’s immoral film is, paradoxically, that the tween characters are far […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 14, 2019 -
Movie Review
Animated characters Red, voiced by Jason Sudeikis, Chuck, voiced by Josh Gad, and Bomb, voiced by Danny McBride, appear in "The Angry Birds Movie 2." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service The filmmakers behind this animated follow-up to the 2016 original create not one but two romantic subplots, teach a heartwarming moral lesson about cooperation even when you don’t like someone else, throw in a slew of ’90s references to entertain the grown-ups, and mix an air of unhinged, deeply classical silliness […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 14, 2019 -
Movie Review
Brianne Tju stars in a scene from the movie "47 Meters Down: Uncaged." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Jumpy follow-up to the 2017 original in which a quartet of American teen girls living in Mexico (Corinne Foxx, Sistine Stallone, Sophie Nelisse, and Brianne Tju) goes scuba diving in the submerged, shark-infested ruins of a Mayan city where they become trapped and are forced to fight for their lives. Returning […]
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By: Tom Dermody - August 14, 2019 -
Editorial
As schools reopen and parishes gear up for religious education and RCIA classes, a new survey shockingly shows that many Catholics need to return to second grade, the year most of us received our first Holy Communion. Before that most special day, we were taught repeatedly that we were about to receive not bread and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 14, 2019 -
The Sheen Corner
By Katie Bogner “As a custom which started in kindergarten, I always wrote ‘JMJ’ at the top of the blackboard, as I do on every piece of paper before I write — and which I hope will someday be on my tombstone. In answer to many letters, the public finally recognized me and the words […]
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