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By: Tom Dermody - January 4, 2019 -
Featured Article
capital campaign, Christ the King, Moline, Sacred Heart, Seton Catholic School, Steier Group
The logo for the joint capital campaign in Moline that enters its public phase on the weekend of Jan. 12-13.
MOLINE — Together is better for three Catholic institutions here that are uniting on a $5 million capital campaign that enters its public phase Jan. 12-13 after nearly a year of study and preparation. Christ the King Parish, Sacred Heart Parish, and Seton Catholic School — all of Moline — are collaborating in the “Today […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 4, 2019 -
Living the Word
Father Dominic Garramone, OSB
By Father Dominic Garramone, OSB Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord/Jan. 6 Isaiah 60:1-6; Psalm 72:1-2,7-8,10-11,12-13; Ephesians 3:2-3a,5-6; Matthew 2:1-12 Since the 19th century, there has been scholarly debate as to the historical basis of the story of the Magi. Some scholars study the astronomical aspect of the story, trying to determine what the star […]
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By: Tom Dermody - January 4, 2019 -
Editorial
If one of your resolutions for 2019 was to pray more, and we hope that’s the case, then there is no shortage of intentions as the new year opens. We have a few suggestions just for the month of January. As you receive this, more than 200 Catholic bishops from throughout the United States are […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - January 4, 2019 -
News Article
Christmas, gift cards, OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois, Sierra Grace Biagioni
Sierra Grace Biagioni of Peru, also known as Miss Claus, delivers a bag filled with 54 $25 gift cards to OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois on Dec. 24. Accepting the gift on behalf of the young patients is Child Life Specialist Hillary Reiner. (Provided photo)
PERU — Like any superhero, Sierra Grace Biagioni has several aliases. Some call her Supergirl, which was her chosen costume for Halloween and the theme for her Nov. 2 birthday party a couple years ago. This Christmas, however, the 6-year-old was known as Miss Claus, donating 54 $25 gift cards to OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 3, 2019 -
Featured Article
U.S. bishops pray during Mass in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Mundelein Seminary Jan. 3 at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Illinois, near Chicago. The U.S. bishops are on retreat Jan. 2-8 at the seminary, suggested by Pope Francis in September, which comes as the bishops work to rebuild trust among the faithful as questions continue to revolve around their handling of clergy sex abuse. (CNS/Bob Roller)
By Cindy Wooden / Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The clerical abuse crisis and the “crisis of credibility” it created for the U.S. bishops have led to serious divisions within the U.S. church and to a temptation to look for administrative solutions to problems that go much deeper, Pope Francis told the U.S. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 3, 2019 -
News Article
Sister Audrey Cleary, OSB
ROCK ISLAND — A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 4, in the chapel of St. Mary Monastery, for Sister Audrey Cleary, OSB. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery, also in Rock Island. Visitation is planned for Thursday, Jan. 3, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the monastery, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 27, 2018 -
Movie Review
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly star in a scene from the movie "Holmes & Watson." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Sony Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective and his doctor sidekick are given a comedic makeover in this mindless, raucous, and exceedingly vulgar film, written and directed by Etan Cohen. Sherlock Holmes (Will Farrell) is feted on his birthday by Queen Victoria (Pam Ferris) at Buckingham Palace. A dead body tumbles out […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 27, 2018 -
Movie Review
Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Sam Rockwell, Steve Carell
Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Sam Rockwell and Andrea Wright star in a scene from the movie "Vice." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Annapurna Pictures)
By Catholic News Service This biography of former Vice President Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) is a gleeful hatchet job in which he comes off as Machiavellian, black-hearted and more demonic than human. The only figure who emerges in even darker tones is his political mentor, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (Steve Carell), who schemes and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 27, 2018 -
Movie Review
Leslie Mann, Merritt Wever, Robert Zemekis, Steve Carell
Steve Carell stars in a scene from the movie "Welcome to Marwen." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service A dedicated effort from Steve Carell fails to redeem this painfully unengaging fact-based tale in which he plays an illustrator left unable to draw after a near-fatal assault by a group of thugs who takes up photography instead, playing out his own psychodrama in a miniature Belgian village he constructs in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 20, 2018 -
Movie Review
Dalton Harrod, Jennifer Lopez, Milo Ventimiglia, Peter Segal, Treat Williams, Vanessa Hudgens
Jennifer Lopez and Milo Ventimiglia star in a scene from the movie "Second Act." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/STXfilms)
By Catholic News Service Appealing workplace comedy posits that street smarts should rate at least as highly as an educational pedigree. Director Peter Segal and screenwriters Justin Zackham and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas have turned the plucky old formula sideways, with the result that their heroine (Jennifer Lopez) is not facing predations such as sexual harassment or a […]
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