Photo Caption: Sister Marie holds the crucifix that will eventually grace the chapel being built by the Apostolic Sisters of St. John in Princeville. By: By Jennifer Willems PRINCEVILLE — The Community of St. John is growing. In September, the Apostolic Sisters of St. John established their first U.S. novitiate house in rural Princeville. The […]
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Photo Caption: Sister Judith Ann Duvall, OSF, (seated, center) with Council Sisters, from left, Sister Agnes Joseph Williams, Sister Rose Therese Mann, Sister Theresa Ann Brazeau, and Sister Diane Marie McGrew. EAST PEORIA — Sister Judith Ann Duvall, OSF, has been elected to another six-year term as major superior of The Sisters of the Third […]
Continue readingBy: By Shawn Reeves Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct. 14 Wisdom 7:7-11; Psalm 90:12-13,14-15,16-17; Hebrews 4:12-13; Mark 10:17-30 Like a herald who enters a city and pronounces the imminent entry of the king, we have come into that sequence of readings that prepares the announcement of Christ’s triumphant kingship over all. Beginning with last […]
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Photo Caption: Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, said at the Respect Life Dinner that “we have the truth…and we have to have the courage to defend the lives being threatened.” By: By Tom Dermody “Courage.” The president of the National Right to Life Committee brought that one-word wish to 152 […]
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Photo Caption: Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, blesses the 71.5-acre site for a new Peoria Notre Dame High School during groundbreaking ceremonies on Sept. 28. The first phase will be a unified athletic complex. By: By Tom Dermody With prayers, gratitude, and several chants of “Go Irish!,” a field of Catholic high school dreams was […]
Continue readingBishop Jenky has appointed new vicars for the vicariates of Champaign, Kewanee, and Pontiac. Effective immediately, the new vicar of the Champaign vicariate will be Father Joseph Hogan, pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish in Urbana and St. Mary’s Parish, Champaign. The new vicar of the Kewanee vicariate will be Father Tony Lee, pastor of St. […]
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Photo Caption: The public is invited to a Mass of Thanksgiving and reception on Saturday, Oct. 6, to celebrate the 125th anniversary of St. Mary’s Hospital in Streator. STREATOR — St. Mary’s Hospital will mark its 125th anniversary with a Mass of Thanksgiving on Saturday, Oct. 6, at St. Michael the Archangel Church, 711 Lundy […]
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Photo Caption: Carol Tobias is president of the National Right to Life Committee. Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, will be keynote speaker at the 31st annual Respect Life Dinner on Sunday, Oct. 7, at the Cater Inn Banquet Center in Peoria. The NRLC is the oldest and largest pro-life organization […]
Continue readingBy: By Jennifer Willems Don’t think of the Year of Faith as one more thing to do, advises Beth Mahoney, mission director for Holy Cross Family Ministries. “When Pope Benedict XVI established the Year of Faith, he was asking us to look at what we’re already living and strengthen that, and to give us the […]
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Photo Caption: Bishop Jenky urges those at a kickoff event for “40 Days for Life” in Peoria to believe in the “power of the cross” as they and communities across the U.S. unite in prayer for an end to abortion. By: By Tom Dermody Urging united prayer, renewed optimism, and belief in the “power of […]
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