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Sheen birthday broadcast carries on despite power outage at pastoral center

By: The Catholic Post - May 11, 2023 - News Article

Bishop Louis Tylka is interviewed by Covenant Radio host Adam Wright, who broadcast live from the Fulton J. Sheen Museum May 8 in honor of Venerable Fulton Sheen's birthday. (The Catholic Post/Paul Thomas Moore)

By Paul Thomas Moore Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen would have been right at home on Monday, May 8, when an hour of live radio was broadcast in honor of his birthday from the Fulton J. Sheen Museum in the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria. A little drama transpired the night before when a storm knocked […]

Bishop Tylka will ordain three transitional deacons May 20

By: Tom Dermody - May 11, 2023 - Uncategorized

The seminarians who will be ordained transitional deacons on May 20 are (from left) Jacob Martini, Johnathan "Jack" Swoik and Nicholas Conner. (Composite photo/Office of Priestly Vocations)

Three seminarians of the Diocese of Peoria will move one step closer to the priesthood when they are ordained as transitional deacons on Saturday, May 20, at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria. The Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. by Bishop Louis Tylka. The public is invited, but seating is expected to be limited. […]

Diocese will gain four priests on May 27

By: Jennifer Willems - May 11, 2023 - Featured Article

This composite photo, courtesy of the Diocese of Peoria’s Office of Priestly Vocations, shows the four seminarians who will be ordained May 27: Deacon Ignacio Cárdenas Morán, Deacon Nathan Hopper, Deacon Daniel Dionesotes, and Deacon Patrick Wille.

Bishop Louis Tylka will ordain four men to the priesthood for the Diocese of Peoria on Saturday, May 27, at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria. The Mass will begin at 10:30 a.m. The ordinands are Deacon Ignacio Cárdenas Morán, Deacon Daniel Dionesotes, Deacon Nathan Hopper and Deacon Patrick Wille. They will offer their first blessings […]

Diocesan Traveling Monstrance will visit eight churches for Holy Hours in May

By: The Catholic Post - April 30, 2023 - News Article

With the exception of Memorial Day, May 29, the Diocesan Traveling Monstrance will be hosted on the Mondays and Thursdays of May at eight parishes. The Holy Hours will take place at: May 1: St. Mary, Atlanta; May 4: St. Patrick Church of Merna, Bloomington; May 8: St. Mary, Lexington; May 11: St. Joseph, Flanagan; […]

What are the ways we can live the Easter season more joyfully, intentionally?

By: The Catholic Post - April 29, 2023 - Columnists

My Vocation Is Love l Lindsey Weishar Happy Easter! What a joy it is to be able to say this until Pentecost. We had 40 days of fasting and now we are in the midst of 50 days of feasting. What a gift! Though I delight in the fact that there is ample time to soak […]

Only Jesus is the true shepherd

By: The Catholic Post - April 29, 2023 - Living the Word

Father Timothy Hepner

Living the Word l Father Timothy Hepner Fourth Sunday of Easter l April 30 Acts 2:14a,36-41; Psalm 23:1-3a,3b-4,5,6; 1 Peter 2:20b-25; John 10:1-10 Jesus seems to ask a lot of me. When I became serious about being his friend, I had to give up other friendships. I had to stop listening to certain kinds of music […]

Relics of eucharistic revival patrons will travel around diocese April 20-23

By: The Catholic Post - April 18, 2023 - Featured Article

Those who attended the High School Eucharistic Conference on April 20 weren’t the only ones who will have a chance to venerate the relics of Blessed Carlo Acutis and St. Manuel Gonzalez Garcia, the patrons of the National Eucharistic Revival. On loan from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the relics will be traveling through […]

Why do we venerate relics of the saints?

By: The Catholic Post - April 18, 2023 - Uncategorized

By Father Anthony Co My father loved to walk around in the woods. While in the woods he would often find neat-looking branches or discarded lumber. At home, he would whack on them with a Filipino machete to turn them into walking sticks or other things. When my dad died there were only a couple […]

“The Pope’s Exorcist” (Sony)

By: The Catholic Post - April 17, 2023 - Movie Review

"The Pope's Exorcist" is a 2023 supernatural horror film starring Russell Crowe as the late Pauline Father Gabriele Amorth, a longtime exorcist for the Diocese of Rome. The film is 'inspired by' the Italian priest's memoirs. OSV News classification, L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS photo/Sony Pictures Entertainment)

By OSV News Initially promising but ultimately overheated possession tale based on books published by high-profile exorcist Pauline Father Gabriele Amorth (Russell Crowe). Summoned from Rome to attend to an American boy (Peter DeSouza-Feighoney) temporarily living in Spain who shows strong signs of being under the dominion of a demon (voice of Ralph Ineson), the […]

“Air” (Amazon)

By: The Catholic Post - April 17, 2023 - Movie Review

Matt Damon, and Viola Davis star in a scene from the movie “Air.” The OSV News classification is A-III -- adults. (OSV News photo/Amazon Studios)

By OSV News Forceful fact-based drama, set in 1984, charts the efforts of a marketing executive (Matt Damon) to rescue the failing basketball division of Nike by signing rookie Michael Jordan and creating the Air Jordan brand. After winning over the company’s initially skeptical founder and CEO (Ben Affleck), he teams with the head of […]

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