Articles:
By: Jennifer Willems - August 25, 2016 -
News Article
Brittney Morales, Crossroads Pro-Life Walk Across America, Pro-life
Brittney Morales, a former counselor at the Women's Care Center in Peoria, is pictured (far right, with arm outstretched) in Washington, D.C. after completing the three-month Crossroads Southern Pro-Life Walk Across America. (Provided photo)
NEW YORK CITY — After walking more than 3,000 miles as a missionary for the pro-life cause, most people would be ready for a nice, long rest. Not Brittney Morales. The former counselor at the Women’s Care Center in Peoria completed the Crossroads Southern Pro-Life Walk Across America on Aug. 13 in Washington, D.C. A […]
Continue reading
By: Tom Dermody - August 25, 2016 -
News Article
Blessed Sacrament School, capital campaign, gymnasium, Morton, Msgr. Gerald Ward
A new gymnasium and cafeteria, school entrance, and additional classrooms are the goal of a $5.25 million capital campaign being launched at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Morton this weekend. (Sketch by PCM + Design Architects, East Peoria)
MORTON — A $5.25 million capital campaign is being launched at Blessed Sacrament Parish here this weekend seeking pledges to fund several improvements at the parish school. “Bringing to Completion the Good Work Begun” is the theme of the campaign, which will cap more than a decade of expansion and updating of the parish’s facilities. […]
Continue reading
By: Tom Dermody - August 24, 2016 -
Featured Article
acolyte, Class X, deacons, Diocese of Peoria, permanent diaconate
Robb Caputo of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Leonore is presented a ciborium by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, during the Rite of Institution of Acolytes for members of the diocese's tenth class of permanent deacons Aug. 20 at St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria.(The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
Twenty-four men who are entering their final year of preparation for ordination in the permanent diaconate were installed into the ministry of acolyte by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, during a joy-filled Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Saturday, Aug. 20. But while the bishop led the assembly in robust applause for the class members […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
This is a scene from the movie "The Innocents." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Music Box Films)
By Catholic News Service Luminescent, unflinchingly honest and respectful of religion, director Anne Fontaine’s drama about a fictional Benedictine convent in post- World War II Poland gently explores the conflicts between duty to the living and the shattered faith that can result from acts of depravity. The screenplay by Sabrina B. Karine and Alice Vial […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
Miles Teller and Jonah Hill star in scene from the movie "War Dogs." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Two young men from Miami become arms merchants in a fact-based movie that hovers between raucous comedy and serious expose. Through an initiative designed to let small businesses get a slice of the military-spending pie, a college dropout (Miles Teller) with a wife and daughter to support and his long-lost pal from […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
Jack Huston stars in a scene from the movie " Ben-Hur." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc)
By Catholic News Service Though reasonably satisfying as an action picture, this iteration of Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel suffers from a poorly written script that fails to convince when the classic story’s religious theme comes to the fore. First-century Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) lives a prosperous life in Jerusalem where he carries on […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
Kubo, voiced by Art Parkinson, is seen in the animated movie "Kubo and the Two Strings." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service Captivating animated fable about a Japanese street urchin (voice of Art Parkinson) whose troubled family history launches him on a quest for a magical set of armor. He’s accompanied, and protected, on the journey by a prudent monkey (voiced by Charlize Theron) and by a courageous but accursed samurai (voice of […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
Meryl Streep and Simon Helberg star in a scene from the movie "Florence Foster Jenkins." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Paramount)
By Catholic News Service Moral complications limit the appropriate audience for director Stephen Frears’ charmingly eccentric, fact-based profile of the titular New York socialite (Meryl Streep) whose yearning to take to the stage as a singer of operatic arias and similar works, though motivated by a genuine love of music, was undercut by her spectacular […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
Oakes Fegley stars in a scene from the movie "Pete's Dragon." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service The classic boy-and-his-dog story assumes outsized proportions in this generally warmhearted fantasy adventure, a “reimagining” of the 1977 Disney musical. This go-round, song and dance have been jettisoned, and hokeyness gives way to thrilling action and tear-jerking moments. Orphaned by a tragic accident, a toddler (Levi Alexander) wanders into a remote […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
Food characters are shown in a scene from the animated movie "Sausage Party." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive.CNS/Sony Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Animated food items push an atheist agenda and glorify the basest forms of carnality in this disgusting spitball of a comedy from directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan. The inhabitants of a suburban supermarket — most prominently a sausage (voice of Seth Rogen) and his girlfriend, a bun (voice of Kristen […]
Continue reading
