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By: Jennifer Willems - February 9, 2023 -
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Seton Catholic School student Macy DeMeulenaere receives Communion from Sister M. Bernadette, FSGM, at the Catholic Schools Week Mass hosted by Alleman High School in Rock Island on Feb. 3. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
ROCK ISLAND — Math, science, history and English are important subjects, but Catholic schools offer something more, something eternal, Bishop Louis Tylka said at a Mass marking the end of Catholic Schools Week. “To put Jesus in the center of all we do, to put Jesus at the center of how we live our lives […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - February 5, 2023 -
News Article
Kristi Hofferber, the speaker for the Community Ecumenical Memorial Prayer Vigil on Jan. 22, places a rose in a vase at Holy Cross Church in Champaign during a candlelight procession to remember the more than 60 million lives lost to abortion in the United States. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
CHAMPAIGN — Kristi Hofferber knows she is the face of the “exceptions” to every argument against abortion. Born as the result of rape and incest — her mother was abused by her father — she said 60 percent of people who are pro-life will make exceptions in those two instances. While she doesn’t condone how […]
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By: Tom Dermody - February 5, 2023 -
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Alicia Garcia, 10, was among members of the St. Hyacinth Children's Choir lending their voices to the Mass in Thanksgiving for the Reversal of Roe v. Wade at St. Hyacinth Church in LaSalle on Jan. 24. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
LASALLE — The evening Mass at St. Hyacinth Church here on Jan. 24 was in thanksgiving for the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion last June, so why was Father Tom Otto wearing purple vestments, a penitential color? “The overturning of the ruling does not mean that abortion is […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - February 5, 2023 -
News Article
Father William Miller and Father John Verrier concelebrate Mass at St. Joseph Church in Peoria on Jan. 23, the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of the Unborn. Father Miller encouraged prayers not just for the unborn, but for their mothers, and those who defend life. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
Praying for the legal protection of the unborn is what brought people to St. Joseph Church in Peoria on Jan. 23. What they took away was the determination to keep praying for the children and their mothers, and for the conversion of those who promote abortion. “As we enter into these sacred mysteries we know […]
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By: Tom Dermody - February 5, 2023 -
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The 50 students and chaperones from Peoria Notre Dame High School who took part in a five-day pilgrimage to the national March for Life in Washington, D.C., are pictured outside Union Station after the Jan. 20 march. (Provided photo)
High school students from the Diocese of Peoria who joined tens of thousands in Washington, D.C., for the national March for Life and related events on Jan. 20 returned with a deeper commitment to uphold the dignity of all human life, especially the unborn threatened by abortion. But the pilgrimage had an added spiritual bonus. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 3, 2023 -
Movie Review
Rita Moreno, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Sally Field star in a scene from the movie "80 For Brady." The OSV News classification is A-III -- adults. (OSV News photo/Paramount Pictures)
By OSV News An ensemble of talented stars (Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno and Sally Field) is left becalmed by the inertia of this going-through-the-motions paean to football fandom. Led by Tomlin’s character, a quartet of elderly pals who have long been devotees of the New England Patriots and the celebrated quarterback of the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 3, 2023 -
Movie Review
Abby Quinn, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Dave Bautista, and Rupert Grint, star in a scene from the movie “Knock at the Cabin.” The OSV News classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (OSV News photo/Universal)
By OSV News Offbeat but effective thriller in which a quartet of intruders (led by Dave Bautista) take a vacationing same-sex couple (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) and their young adopted daughter (Kristen Cui) hostage for what turns out to be a bizarre reason. All the members of the group, they explain, have had matching […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 3, 2023 -
Book Review
Reviewed by Matthew Vander Vennet When we speak of St. Thomas Aquinas, most people familiar with the “Angelic Doctor” would tend automatically to think of his great contribution to Catholic theology and philosophy and as the Scholastic theologian par excellence. Even those more familiar with Aquinas would probably think of his two great works — […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 3, 2023 -
Columnists
My Vocation is Love l Lindsey Weishar Having recently been sick and realizing recovery times as an adult seem much longer than when I was a child, a line from Flannery O’Connor has been coming to mind: “I have never been anywhere but sick.” Diagnosed with lupus at 27 years old, O’Connor was forced to move back […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 3, 2023 -
Living the Word
Carla Oliver
EDITOR’S NOTE: Carla Oliver wrote and sent this Scripture reflection during the Jan. 22-31 pilgrimage to France led by Bishop Louis Tylka, Father Chase Hilgenbrinck and Father Patrick Henehan. The purpose of the journey, which focused on vocations, was to offer prayers for “an increase of holy priests, consecrated men and women, and strong marriages” […]
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