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By: The Catholic Post - July 5, 2019 -
News Article
celebratesheen.com, Sheen, website
This is a screenshot from celebratesheen.com, a website that will offer updated information regarding the Dec. 21 beatification ceremonies for Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
Are you looking for more information on the life of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen? Do you have questions about beatifications, canonizations, or plans regarding relics? Would you like to support the cause through prayer, volunteerism, or financial gifts? Answers to those and other questions are found at a newly launched website, CelebrateSheen.com, sponsored by […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 5, 2019 -
Movie Review
By Catholic News Service All dressed up as slow-moving psychological horror, writer-director Ari Aster’s film is, in fact, an exercise in crude exploitation. Perpetually on the verge of breaking up, a couple of university students (Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor) seek to ease the tension by joining his graduate-school friends (William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 5, 2019 -
Living the Word
Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB
By Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / July 7 Isaiah 66:10-14c; Psalm 66:1-3,4-5,6-7,16,20; Galatians 6:14-18; Luke 10:1-12,17-20 Recently I was present with several people meeting with state officials about a prison ministry program. Families of prisoners shared stories of their loneliness as a relative of someone in prison. They spoke of the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 5, 2019 -
News Article
died, Father Richard Bresnahan, Moline, social justice
Father Richard Bresnahan
(UPDATE — For the full text of the homily at the funeral Mass for Father Bresnahan, click here.) MOLINE — A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Monday, July 8, at Christ the King Church here for Father Richard Bresnahan, 87, a senior priest of the Diocese of Peoria known […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - July 3, 2019 -
Uncategorized
Msgr. Stanley Deptula, executive director of the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Foundation, holds a volume of the "positio," the official position paper for the sainthood cause of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, in Rome on May 24, 2011. The "positio" was presented by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, to Pope Benedict XVI during the pontiff's general audience at the Vatican. (CNS/Paul Haring)
CHAMPAIGN — Not only has Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen come home to Peoria, but he now rests in the place that formed him spiritually and sent him out to evangelize the world, said Msgr. Stanley Deptula, executive director of the Archbishop Fulton John Sheen Foundation. “I don’t think we can underestimate what that church, […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - July 3, 2019 -
Featured Article
Bonnie Engstrom of St. Patrick Parish in Washington and five of her eight children kneel at the new tomb of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen at St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria on June 28. The Engstroms' son, James Fulton, now 8, was allegedly miraculously healed by God through the intercession of Archbishop Sheen during a time of crisis at his birth in 2010. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Jennifer Willems of The Catholic Post interviewed two key figures in the sainthood cause of Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen — Bonnie Engstrom and Msgr. Stanley Deptula — about their reactions to the transfer of his mortal remains to a new tomb at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria. Bonnie Engstrom’s story follows. To read […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 3, 2019 -
News Article, The Sheen Corner
By Katie Bogner “The purpose of the Holy Hour is to encourage a deep personal encounter with Christ. The Holy and Glorious God is constantly inviting us to come to Him, to hold converse with Him, to ask for such things as we need and to experience what a blessing there is in fellowship with […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 28, 2019 -
Book Review
Reviewed by Nancy Piccione Nearly three years ago, 85-year-old priest Father Jacques Hamel was martyred by two Islamic state terrorists while he was celebrating daily Mass at the parish in Normandy, France, where he lived as a retired priest. I vividly recall how moved I was by the accounts of him, and his witness to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 28, 2019 -
Movie Review
Jake Gyllenhaal, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Holland, Zendaya
Numan Acar, Tom Holland and Jake Gyllenhaal star in a scene from the movie "Spider-Man: Far From Home." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service True to its title, this snappy follow-up to 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming” finds the eponymous superhero (Tom Holland) traveling across Europe on a summer trip organized for the students of his alter ego Peter Parker’s high school. He wants to spend the journey courting the classmate with whom he’s smitten (Zendaya). But […]
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By: Tom Dermody - June 27, 2019 -
Featured Article
The casket bearing the remains of Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen rests within the new marble tomb prepared for him in the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception on June 27. Archbishop Sheen was ordained in the cathedral in 1919 and consecrated himself to the Blessed Mother there. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
As a small group of witnesses silently looked on, the mortal remains of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen were interred at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria late in the afternoon of June 27, completing a transfer from St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York that began early that morning. Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, of Peoria […]
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