Since its first campaign in 2007, 40 Days for Life has seen its message of hope and faith in the culture of life spread to more than 1,000 cities in 63 countries. The organization’s website lists the evidence of what prayer, fasting, community outreach and peaceful witness have achieved — 23,525 lives saved, 251 abortion […]
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A Mass of Christian Burial was offered on Sept. 7 at Immaculate Conception Convent in West Peoria for Sister Cecilia Mattingly, OSF, a former teacher and librarian at several schools in the Diocese of Peoria who served in childcare following her retirement. Sister Cecilia died on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023, at OSF Richard Owens Hospice […]
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By Paul Thomas Moore of The Catholic Post In his homily at a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Sept. 10 for couples from across the Diocese of Peoria whose 25th or 50th wedding anniversaries fall in 2023, Bishop Louis Tylka recalled a wedding he presided over as a young priest when “falling in love” […]
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COAL VALLEY — Only a small minority of high school tennis players at the skill level of Rock Island Alleman junior Nicholas Patrick attend a regular school. To spend as many hours as possible each day on the court, many others opt for high performance tennis academies or are homeschooled. But for Nicholas, who this […]
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By Paul Thomas Moore of The Catholic Post GALESBURG — The old saying is “April showers bring May flowers,” but in this case it was more like “summer rains cause back-to-school pains.” Extensive summer storm damage at Costa Catholic Academy from a broken roof pipe rendered the building at 2726 Costa Drive — near Immaculate Heart […]
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Solar panels are seen in this aerial view of St. Mary Monastery in Rock Island. The monastery will be the site of an outdoor interfaith "Season of Creation prayer service on Saturday, Sept. 24. (Provided photo)
ROCK ISLAND — An outdoor, interfaith prayer service to deepen connections to God, the earth, and all of creation will take place at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 30, on the grounds of St. Mary Monastery, 2200 88th Avenue West. The hour-long service is sponsored by The Sisters of St. Benedict of St. Mary Monastery […]
Continue readingMy Vocation is Love / By Lindsey Weishar Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with some friends for a group reading of a Flannery O’Connor short story I hadn’t encountered before, “Parker’s Back.” Though I admire that O’Connor was able to write stories that speak to both Catholics and non-Catholics alike, I have had […]
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Living the Word / By Tim Irwin Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Sept. 17 Sirach 27:30—28:7; Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12; Romans 14:7-9; Matthew 18:21-35 This week’s Gospel teaches the Ethic of Reciprocity. We know it as the Golden Rule. It shows up in virtually every culture and religion across human history. When people discover […]
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After walking four miles in a eucharistic procession, helping to hoist a canopy over the Blessed Sacrament for one of them, Gene Dennhardt was more fired up than tired out. “To be in the presence of the Lord all the way? I mean, that’s awesome,” said Dennhardt, one of 250 participants in a procession on […]
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MARYKNOLL, N.Y. – A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 14, at the Maryknoll Mission Center here for Father William J. Donnelly, MM, a missionary priest born and raised in central Illinois who served in Guatemala for decades. Father Donnelly, 90, died on Sept. 6, 2023, in the […]
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