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By: Tom Dermody - August 12, 2016 -
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Diocese of Peoria, pilgrims, Poland, Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Sister Clara, Sister Sara, World Youth Day
Current or former students of Peoria Notre High School kneel along with about 2 million other World Youth Day pilgrims during a prayer vigil with Pope Francis in a “Field of Mercy” outside Krakow, Poland on July 30. From left are Maddie Conley and Mary Rockwell, both now students at Bradley University in Peoria; Grace Conley, a Peoria Notre Dame junior; and Lauren Schuler, a student at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. (Provided photo/The Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary)
Inspiring. A blessed experience. Indescribable. Amazing. Really hard at times. A game-changer. About 50 pilgrims from the Diocese of Peoria are home from a World Youth Day experience in late July with Pope Francis in Poland they find impossible to adequately describe, but are compelled to share. “It was a very blessed experience, but something […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 11, 2016 -
Movie Review
Melina Weissman, Kevin Spacey and Christopher Walken star in a scene from the movie "Nine Lives." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/EuropaCorp)
By Catholic News Service The formidable Kevin Spacey wanders through this wreck of a comedy playing a callous business tycoon who learns important life lessons when he’s forced, temporarily, to inhabit the body of a cat. This transformation, brought about in fulfillment of some dark hints about the mogul’s future made by the vaguely mysterious […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 11, 2016 -
Movie Review
Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg star in a scene from the movie "Cafe Society." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Writer-director Woody Allen’s seriocomic look at romance follows a Depression-era Bronx lad (Jesse Eisenberg) to Los Angeles, where he gets a job with his uncle (Steve Carell), a powerful Hollywood agent. But when his relationship with the agent’s lissome secretary (Kristen Stewart) leads to disillusionment, he returns to New York to […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - August 11, 2016 -
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Bishop Spalding, Daprato Rigali, renovation, St. Mary's Cathedral
One section of the newly designed ceiling of the restored St. Mary's Cathedral, Peoria. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
St. Mary’s Cathedral has been the mother church of the Diocese of Peoria for more than 125 years, and yet extensive restoration inside and out has made it new again. People throughout central Illinois are invited to come and “Rediscover St. Mary’s” at a series of liturgical celebrations planned for Founder’s Weekend, Aug. 24-28. “I […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 11, 2016 -
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Catholic schools, Diocese of Peoria, Jackie Nieukirk, Jacob Smithers, Jamie Hartrich, Jason Schreder, Laura Cody, Lisa Doughan, Principals
Eight Catholic schools in the Diocese of Peoria are welcoming new administrators as the 2016-17 academic year begins. Seven have accepted the job on a full-time basis, while one veteran is filling in for the fall semester only. The new principals are: Laura Cody, St. Paul School, Macomb; Lisa Doughan, St. Thomas School, Philo; Jamie […]
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By: Tom Dermody - August 11, 2016 -
Editorial
On Aug. 25, the Diocese of Peoria will pause to commemorate 100 years since the death of its founding bishop, John Lancaster Spalding. Details of the Founder’s Day Mass and related celebrations, which also serve to mark the restoration of St. Mary’s Cathedral, are found on here. We hope many can take part in order […]
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By: Tom Dermody - August 11, 2016 -
Editorial
About 50 pilgrims from the Diocese of Peoria are among the throngs shown walking to the Field of Mercy near Krakow, Poland, for a prayer vigil and Mass with Pope Francis to conclude World Youth Day. (Provided photo/Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary)
By the time this is read, there will be all sorts of familiar storylines and images from the Olympic Games in Rio. Already as of Tuesday morning, just three days in, we’ve become acquainted with athletes from around the world in pools, on balance beams, and even on the beach. We’ve been dazzled by the […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - August 10, 2016 -
News Article
Dorothy Naumann, Elmwood, parish secretary, retires
Dorothy Naumann's long and dedicated service to St. Patrick Parish in Elmwood has been recognized with both diocesan and papal honors. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
YATES CITY — It’s only two miles between Dorothy Naumann’s house and the office at St. Patrick Church in Elmwood. It’s a path her car knows well — she’s been traveling it for the last 57 years as the parish secretary. Now her car will have new roads to explore. At 90, Mrs. Naumann has […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - August 10, 2016 -
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Barbara Lanzdorf-Heil, Charismatic, mercy, renewal, Walter Matthews
Barbara Lanzdorf-Heil leads conference participants in prayer during the 30th annual Charismatic Renewal Conference on July 30. She encouraged them to remember God's promises and believe that "what has been written in the book of your life has not been erased." The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems
EAST PEORIA — With the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Pope Francis is inviting people to a new, personal encounter with Jesus not once, but every day. That doesn’t just apply to Catholics or people of good will. “The Father’s mercy is for everyone,” according to Walter Matthews. “It is for all of humanity until the […]
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By: Tom Dermody - August 10, 2016 -
Living the Word
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Father Timothy Hepner
By Father Timothy Hepner Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Aug. 14 Jeremiah 38:4-6,8-10; Psalm 40:2,3,4,18; Hebrews 12:1-4; Luke 12:49-53 “Blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you.” Jesus’ saying in the Gospel goes against the grain of common sense. Why would I be blessed because someone is unable to repay me? Our […]
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