Photo Caption: Hannah Hudson of St. Malachy Parish in Rantoul smiles as Bishop Jenky greets Roxanne Street, who is preparing to receive the Easter sacraments at the Easter Vigil on April 19. By: By Jennifer Willems St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria resounded with joy-filled song and applause on March 16, as people preparing to be […]
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Photo Caption: Slave Regina Newman Center serves the nearly 125 Catholic students attending Eureka College. Father Eugene Radosevich is chaplain/director. By: By Jennifer Willems EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fifth in a series profiling Catholic campus ministry at colleges located within the borders of the Diocese of Peoria. EUREKA — If everything had gone according […]
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Photo Caption: Sister Mary Core, OSB, hugs fourth-grader Ashlynn Lara during a visit to Our Lady of Grace Academy in East Moline during National Catholic Sisters Week. By: By Jennifer Willems EAST MOLINE — Four Benedictine Sisters from St. Mary Monastery in Rock Island went back to the classroom recently, but instead of cracking books […]
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Photo Caption: The original St. Casimir Church in Streator was originally part of a Russian exhibit at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. This photo is part of the exhibit at The Musems of the Diocese of Peoria. By: By Tom Dermody Museums display treasures, but visitors to the current exhibit at the Museums of […]
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Photo Caption: Jennifer Connelly and Russell Crowe star in a scene from the movie “Noah.” 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 Broadcasting. For […]
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By: By Shawn Reeves Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday), March 30 1 Samuel 16:1b,6-7,10-13a; Psalm 23:1-3a,3b-4,5,6; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 When I was 4 years old, I received my first pair of glasses, and I can still vividly remember the experience. The world was a haze, and then suddenly it was not. A new […]
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Photo Caption: Speaker Ted Wolgamot told the deacons pornography is a powerful disease that “doesn’t just affect the brain, it affects the soul.” Addiction to pornography isn’t something anyone wants to talk about, much less admit they struggle with. The topic comes up so often in pastoral ministry, however, that the permanent deacons of the […]
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Eight members of the Knights of Columbus from around the Diocese of Peoria will be honored for outstanding service to the organization, the church, and their communities during the 26th annual “Night of Knights” recognition dinner on Saturday, April 12. The event, sponsored by the Peoria Diocese Chapter Knights of Columbus, will be hosted by […]
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Photo Caption: Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, has asked all Catholics of the Diocese to “open your hearts to live joyfully and generously” and pray for guidance before making their pledge to the ADA. By: By Tom Dermody To illustrate how gifts to the Diocese of Peoria’s Annual Diocesan Appeal come back to parishes and […]
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Photo Caption: First-graders Conrad Pfaff, Drew Clement and Sophie Deany of St. Mary School, Pontiac, pray the rosary. St. Mary students are the first in Illinois to join the worldwide Children’s Rosary movement. By: By Jennifer Willems PONTIAC — Praying the rosary is nothing new for students of St. Mary School here, who discovered the […]
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