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By: The Catholic Post - September 23, 2015 -
Editorial
The two diocesan priests who died this month lived very different lives. Msgr. Robert W. O’Connor, 92, was blessed with health and longevity, and spent more than five decades in one assignment. Father Benjamin Reese, 57, was stricken in midlife with ALS after service not only in several parishes in our diocese but also in […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - September 23, 2015 -
News Article
Photo Caption: Bess and Dave Cratty of Corpus Christi Parish, Galesburg, are celebrating their fourth anniversary at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. By: By Jennifer Willems GALESBURG — Dave Cratty is going to have to work hard to top this year’s anniversary trip with his wife, Bess. The Crattys will celebrate their fourth […]
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By: Tom Dermody - September 23, 2015 -
News Article
Photo Caption: Ready to take part in the rosary at the Quad Cities Catholic Family Reunion on Sept. 12 are Dan and Annie Tillberg and their daughter Rosalie. By: By Tom Dermody MOLINE — While only a few area Catholics could attend this week’s World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, more than 200 turned out […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 23, 2015 -
News Article
ROCK ISLAND — Among those who share Pope Francis’ concern for the environment are 12 communities of women religious in the Upper Mississippi River Valley and they’re letting him know in the pages of USA Today. In a special edition of the newspaper published to commemorate the pope’s visit to the United States, the communities […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 23, 2015 -
News Article
ASPEN, Colorado — A funeral Mass was celebrated on Friday, Sept. 25, at St. Mary Church here for Father Benjamin Burnet Reese, 57, a priest of the Diocese of Peoria who for the last two years inspired many as he prayerfully coped with the effects of ALS. Father Reese died on Friday, Sept. 18, 2015, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 23, 2015 -
Living the Word
By: By Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Sept. 27 Numbers 11:25-29; Psalm 19:8,10,12-13,14; James 5:1-6; Mark 9:38-43,45,47-48 I once heard a Buddhist phrase: “There are only two mistakes on the way to truth; one is not going far enough and the other is not starting.” This week we are all stirred by […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 23, 2015 -
News Article
The Wake Up the World Conference came to a close with eucharistic adoration and Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria on Sept. 19, but “the party ain’t over,” said Father Paul Langevin, OFM Conv., celebrant and homilist. “Our challenge to wake up the world continues each and every day of our consecrated lives,” Father […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - September 23, 2015 -
News Article
Photo Caption: Abbot Philip Davey, OSB, talks about the vows consecrated men and women take to “wake up the world.” By: By Jennifer Willems Before the members of religious communities of women and men around the Diocese of Peoria welcomed the people who would participate in the Wake Up the World Conference Sept. 18-19, they […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - September 23, 2015 -
News Article
By: By Jennifer Willems Caption: Members of religious communities around the Diocese of Peoria pose for a group photo during the Wake Up The World Conference Sept. 18-19 at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems) Nearly 400 students from Catholic schools around the Diocese of Peoria accepted the invitation to join […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 23, 2015 -
Movie Review
Photo Caption: Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro star in a scene from the movie “The Intern.” The Catholic News Service classification is A-III — adults. Rating: By Catholic News Service The following movie reviews are supplied by Catholic News Service in conjunction with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office of Film and […]
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