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By: Jennifer Willems - December 14, 2016 -
News Article, Uncategorized
consecrated, Diocese of Peoria, Gruenewald, Hepner, priesthood, vocations
Author and speaker Rhonda Gruenewald, developr of the Hundredfold Workshop, will be the presenter at the diocesan event on Jan. 21 at St. Jude Church in Peoria.
People who want to promote vocations to sacramental marriage, the priesthood and consecrated life will get the tools they need to do it at the Hundredfold Workshop, planned for Saturday, Jan. 21, at St. Jude Church in Peoria. It will begin with morning prayer at 9 a.m. and promises to send participants out at 2 […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 12, 2016 -
Movie Review
Nadine Velazquez and Shemar Moore star in a scene from the movie "The Bounce Back." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Viva)
By Catholic News Service Pleasantly compact romance in which the author of a best-selling self-help book (Shemar Moore) and a therapist (Nadine Velazquez) clash over what she considers his pat answers to life’s complicated dilemmas. Their snappy exchange goes viral and they’re launched on a nationwide media tour — as well as a relationship. Director […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 11, 2016 -
Movie Review
Jessica Chastain stars in a scene from the movie "Miss Sloane." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/EuropaCorp)
By Catholic News Service A striking performance from Jessica Chastain as the ruthless Washington lobbyist of the title propels director John Madden’s forceful study of political corruption. The win-at-all-costs wheeler-dealer shocks her colleagues when, driven by personal conviction, she abruptly changes sides in the fight over a pending gun control bill, abandoning her cushy position […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 9, 2016 -
Movie Review
Shawnee Smith, Ryan O'Quinn, Danielle Nicolet and Issac Ryan Brown star in a scene from the movie "Believe." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Believe the Film)
By Catholic News Service Evangelical Christian faith hovers in the background of this holiday-themed drama about a cash-strapped factory owner (Ryan O’Quinn) facing both the collapse of his business and the end of the annual Christmas fair his family has long sponsored in his small hometown. As he struggles to decide whether to sell his […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 9, 2016 -
Movie Review
T.J. Miller and Courtney B. Vance star in a scene from the movie "Office Christmas Party." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Paramount)
By Catholic News Service To impress a potential client (Courtney B. Vance) who thinks their company suffers from low employee morale, the laid-back branch manager (T.J. Miller) and chief tech officer (Jason Bateman) of a family-owned Internet firm defy the orders of their uptight CEO (Jennifer Aniston), who is also the manager’s sister, by going […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 9, 2016 -
Movie Review
Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga star in a scene from the movie "Loving." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents.(CNS/Focus)
By Catholic News Service Writer-director Jeff Nichols’ fact-based drama about the Virginia couple (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) whose legal crusade led to a landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision demolishing race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States is so restrained and decorous that it nearly obscures the historical significance of the events it recounts. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 9, 2016 -
Movie Review
David Mazouz stars in a scene from the movie "Incarnate." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Director Brad Peyton’s mostly secular addition to the exorcism subgenre centers on a burned-out victim of demonic activity (Aaron Eckhart) who has been targeted by the nether world because of his ability to enter the minds of the possessed and rescue them from their plight. At the request of a Vatican […]
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By: Tom Dermody - November 30, 2016 -
Featured Article
Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Archdiocese of New York, beatification, body, canonization, Diocese of Peoria, sainthood, Sheen
The transfer of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's remains is seen as a key factor in allowing the sainthood cause to move forward.
Hopes buoyed in the Diocese of Peoria by a Nov. 17 court ruling allowing the family of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen to transfer the sainthood candidate’s remains from New York to Peoria have been tempered by the subsequent granting of an emergency stay to the Archdiocese of New York, which plans to appeal the […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - November 30, 2016 -
Featured Article
astronomy, Brother Guy Consolmagno, St. Patrick Parish, Urbana, Vatican
Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory in Rome, addresses a crowd via Skype at Trinity Hall of St. Patrick Parish in Urbana on Nov. 20. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
URBANA — Being on two different continents didn’t seem to matter much when St. Patrick Parish here hosted a “visit” from Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory in Rome, on Nov. 20. With the help of Skype, the seven-hour time difference melted away, making it possible for parishioners and their guests to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 30, 2016 -
News Article
The cast of "The Third Sunday of Advent" is pictured during a recent rehearsal for the original comedy-drama to be performed at St. Anthony Parish in Hoopeston on Dec. 10. It was written by parishioner Tom Sweeney (upper right). )Provided photo/Jordan Crook, Hoopeston Chronicle)
HOOPESTON — St. Anthony Parish here will present an original play, “The Third Sunday of Advent,” at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10, in the church hall, 423 S. 3rd St. The comedy-drama was written by parishioner Tom Sweeney, who taught dramatic writing at Homewood-Flossmoor High School for 34 years and now lives in rural […]
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