Articles:
By: Tom Dermody - July 5, 2018 -
Featured Article
Father Laible, food pantry, Holy Family, Lincoln, Logan County Catholic Community
Beth Fleshman, a volunteer at the Logan County Catholic Community Food Pantry in Lincoln, assists a guest with her selections at the pantry’s new location on June 27. The outreach serves more than 1,600 people annually and is supported by the county’s four Catholic parishes. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
LINCOLN — “Wow, this place is huge,” said the first guest to walk through the door of the newly built and blessed Logan County Catholic Community Food Pantry on June 27. She would find, as do the dozens of others who are assisted with their families’ food needs here every Wednesday, that the new facility’s […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - July 5, 2018 -
Movie Review
This is a scene from the movie "The First Purge." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service A love of violence for its own sake, a profoundly dishonest attempt to disguise itself as a political allegory and reverse racism characterize this despicable bit of slaughter porn. In presenting the origin story of its wretched franchise, this fourth film in the series, set on Staten Island, focuses on the […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - July 3, 2018 -
Featured Article
Bishop Joseph C. Bambera of Scranton, Pa., talks to an immigrant woman, recently released from U.S. custody, July 1, at a Catholic Charities-run respite center in McAllen, Texas. A delegation of U.S. bishops has traveled to the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, to learn more about the detention of Central American immigrants at the U.S.-Mexican border. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth)
By Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service SAN JUAN, Texas (CNS) — In less than 48 hours, a group of Catholic bishops saw the faces of triumph and relief from migrants who had been recently released by immigration authorities, but ended their two-day journey to the border with a more “somber” experience, visiting detained migrant children […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - June 29, 2018 -
Movie Review
Kyrie Irving stars in a scene from the movie "Uncle Drew." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Mostly harmless sports comedy, based on a Pepsi ad campaign, in which a basketball coach (Lil Rel Howery) whose players have deserted him on the eve of a prestigious tournament turns for help to the title character (Kyrie Irving), an elderly and elusive legend from the Harlem hoops scene of the […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - June 29, 2018 -
Movie Review
Paul Rudd stars in a scene from the movie "Ant-Man and the Wasp." The Catholic News Service classification, A-III -- adults. (CNS/Marvel Studios)
By Catholic News Service There’s plenty of humor and action in this fast-paced sci-fi adventure. What’s lacking is any exposition or guidance for those not already familiar with the characters and their relationships from 2015’s “Ant-Man” and 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War.” Approaching the end of a sentence of house arrest, Scott Lang aka Ant-Man […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - June 28, 2018 -
Featured Article
New Cardinal Desire Tsarahazana of Toamasina, Madagascar, is seen with other cardinals during a consistory in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 28. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Defending the weak or hopeless and becoming a servant to those most in need is the best promotion one can ever receive, Pope Francis told new and old cardinals. “None of us must feel ‘superior’ to anyone. None of us should look down at others […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - June 28, 2018 -
Movie Review
Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Stefano Sollima
Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Donovan and Benicio Del Toro star in a scene from the movie "Sicario: Day of the Soldado." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service After evidence suggests Mexican drug cartels have aided jihadi terrorists to enter the United States, a federal agent (Josh Brolin) and a lawyer-turned-hitman (Benicio Del Toro) set out to provoke a war among the gangs by kidnapping a kingpin’s preteen daughter (Isabela Moner), an act they hope will be blamed on […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - June 25, 2018 -
News Article
100 years old. birthday, CHM, music, Rock Island, Sister Cecelia Vandeberg, St. Pius X, Teacher
Sister Mary Cecelia Vandeberg dressed for music ministry as a young Sister of Humility (left) and in 2018 as she approached her 100th birthday on June 26. Still going strong, she visits nursing home residents once a week and makes a Holy Hour every afternoon.
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Sister Cecelia Vandeberg, CHM, once helped to fill the halls of St. Pius X School in Rock Island with music. Now the Congregation of the Humility of Mary is inviting friends and former students to fill her mailbox with cards and letters for her 100th birthday. Sister Cecelia will reach that milestone […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - June 25, 2018 -
News Article
Father Geoffrey Horton, Father Johnathan Steffen, Father Stephen Willard
New pastors have been named for three parishes and St. John Paul II Catholic Newman Center in Normal is getting a new chaplain in clergy appointments announced in June by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC. Father Stephen Willard will become pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Peoria. For the past five years, he […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - June 25, 2018 -
News Article
Galesburg Vicariate, Monmouth, Msgr. Thomas Mack, vicar
Msgr. Thomas Mack
Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, has appointed Msgr. Thomas Mack as vicar of the Galesburg Vicariate. Msgr. Mack succeeds Msgr. Ernest Pizzamiglio, longtime pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Galesburg, who had served as vicar of the region for 28 years prior to his move to senior status this month. — Related story: […]
Continue reading
