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Father Harold Datzman, OSB, granted senior status; will return to St. Bede

By: Jennifer Willems - November 30, 2016 - Featured Article Benedictines, Father Harold Datzman, senior status, St. Bede Abbey, St. Joseph Peru

Father Harold Datzman, OSB, is in St. Joseph Church in Peru, which he has refurbished with the help of parishioners. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)

PERU — Expressing his gratitude for years of “generous service to the Diocese of Peoria,” Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, has granted senior status to Father Harold Datzman, OSB, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Peru. Father Harold, 78, will return to St. Bede Abbey and be succeeded by Father Jacob Rose, who has been […]

New hybrid operating room blessed at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, Bloomington

By: The Catholic Post - November 30, 2016 - News Article

Father Rogers Byambaasa, chaplain at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington, blesses a new hybrid operating room on Nov. 23. Assisting is Deacon Gayle Cyrulik. Provided photo/Libby Allison

BLOOMINGTON — Blessing and dedication ceremonies took place Nov. 23 at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center here for a new hybrid operating room and post-anesthesia care unit. The blessing culminated two years of work on the projects, whose combined construction and equipment costs were $8.9 million. Nearly three dozen staff members — many of them […]

Macomb Vicariate Harvest Mass draws grateful crowd to St. Augustine Church

By: The Catholic Post - November 30, 2016 - News Article

Father Daniel Ebker, Father Dominic Vitaliano, and Msgr. Richard Pricco concelebrate the Harvest Mass for the Macomb Vicariate on Nov. 15 at St. Augustine Church in St. Augustine. Provided photo/Kelly Zimmerman

ST. AUGUSTINE — Several area parishes were represented when a Harvest Mass for the Macomb Vicariate was hosted Nov. 15 by St. Augustine Parish here. “It was a great opportunity to give thanks to almighty God for the bountiful harvest and to see other Catholics from different parts of the vicariate,” said Father Dominic Vitaliano, […]

Giving beyond Tuesday

By: Tom Dermody - November 30, 2016 - Editorial

This is written on what has come to be known as Giving Tuesday, the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving — a holiday that used to stand on its own quite nicely but in today’s culture is followed by Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is a new and noble idea that has mushroomed […]

Advent calls us to hear, reassure those who ‘cry out

By: The Catholic Post - November 30, 2016 - Living the Word

Father Timothy Hepner

By Father Timothy Hepner Second Sunday of Advent/Dec. 4 Isaiah 11:1-10; Psalm 72:1-2,7-8,12-13,17; Romans 15:4-9; Matthew 3:1-12 Diogenes, one of the founders of the ancient school of philosophy called cynicism, was a crude and disruptive figure whose life was a running commentary on the insincerity of most men. Living in a barrel outside the city […]

Sister Jozefa Seskar, OSB, dies at 89; funeral is Tuesday in Rock Island

By: The Catholic Post - November 27, 2016 - News Article

Sister Jozefa Seskar, OSB

ROCK ISLAND — Sister Jozefa Seskar, OSB, who ministered in food service for many years at St. Mary Monastery and St. Mary Academy, both in Nauvoo, died Nov. 25, 2016, at St. Mary Monastery in Rock Island. She was 89. Visitation is planned for Monday, Nov. 28, from 4 to 7 p.m. in the […]

“Bad Santa 2” (Broad Green)

By: The Catholic Post - November 25, 2016 - Movie Review

Billy Bob Thornton and Christina Hendricks star in a scene from the movie "Bad Santa 2." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS /Santamax Distribution)

By Catholic News Service As soul-deadening as its squalid urban setting, this follow-up to the 2003 original attempts to mine laughs out of human degradation. While planning a robbery at a corrupt Chicago charity, an alcoholic safe-cracker (Billy Bob Thornton) somehow manages to desecrate more Christmastime traditions than might seem possible. Director Mark Waters’ film […]

“Rules Don’t Apply” (Fox)

By: The Catholic Post - November 25, 2016 - Movie Review

Warren Beatty stars in a scene from the movie "Rules Don't Apply." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Twentieth Century Fox)

By Catholic News Service A small-town beauty queen and aspiring actress (Lily Collins) becomes one of the many fetching would-be stars summoned to 1950s Hollywood by eccentric RKO Pictures owner Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty, who also wrote and directed). Like her peers, she’s housed in style and assigned a chauffeur (Alden Ehrenreich), part of whose […]

“Moana” (Disney)

By: The Catholic Post - November 25, 2016 - Movie Review

Characters are shown in a scene from the animated movie "Moana." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)

By Catholic News Service The eponymous heroine of Disney’s 56th animated film is a spunky Polynesian princess (voice of Auli’i Cravalho) who seeks not a boyfriend but a grand adventure on the high seas. Racing against time, she must join forces with a demigod (voice of Dwayne Johnson) to vanquish evil and restore the natural […]

“Allied” (Paramount)

By: The Catholic Post - November 25, 2016 - Movie Review

Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in a scene from the movie "Allied." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Daniel Smith, Paramount)

By Catholic News Service In this World War II romantic drama from director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Steven Knight, a Canadian wing commander (Brad Pitt) and a French resistance fighter (Marion Cotillard) with a murky past pretend to be husband and wife as part of an espionage operation before falling in love for real and […]

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