The stories have already begun, and they will only multiply as Dec. 21 draws near. That’s the date some fear the world will end because that’s when an ancient Mayan calendar runs out in 2012. It has fueled Internet speculation and inspired Hollywood for months. As tempting as it is to use that fear to […]
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Photo Caption: Msgr. Stanley Deptula, pastor of St. Bernard’s Parish, shakes hands with Jim Combs, board president of the East Bluff Community Center, after signing the lease on Nov. 29. By: By Tom Dermody A “beacon” on Peoria’s East Bluff for more than a century, the former St. Bernard’s School will serve the neighborhood in […]
Continue readingWhile enrollment for the 44 schools of the Diocese of Peoria is down by 490 students from last year, there is a glimmer of hope in the statistics for the 2012-2013 school year. Total enrollment stands at 10,983, with 8,497 students in Catholic elementary schools and 2,486 in Catholic secondary schools around central Illinois. Among […]
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Photo Caption: Astronomer Jeff Cooke, a native of St. Mary’s Parish in Westville who is credited with a major discovery this year, fields a question during his Dec. 4 presentation at Schlarman Academy in Danville. By: By Tom Dermody WESTVILLE — Jeff Cooke has seen the most distant edges of space and time, but the […]
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Photo Caption: EWTN radio host and author Patrick Madrid holds up one of his books during his presentation at the Evangelization and Apologetics Seminar in Peoria on Dec. 1. By: By Tom Dermody “How many of you know someone who has left the church?” Hands went up throughout the Spalding Pastoral Center conference room in […]
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THOMASBORO — A funeral Mass was celebrated at 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 7, at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church here for Father Stanley J. Malinowski, who guided St. Malachy’s Parish in Rantoul for 25 years and was in residence at the Thomasboro parish since 2001. Father Malinowski, a priest of the Diocese of Peoria […]
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By: By Father Claude Peifer, OSB Second Sunday of Advent, Dec. 9 Baruch 5:1-9; Psalm 126:1-2,2-3,4-5,6; Philippians 1:4-6,8-11; Luke 3:1-6 The season of Advent is about “the Coming” (in Latin adventus) of the Lord. What does that mean? The prophets of the Old Testament had foretold that their God would manifest himself on “the Day […]
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Photo Caption: Steve Wagner is preparing to enter the Catholic Church with support from his wife, April. He also credits St. Francis and Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen for their roles in his faith journey. By: By Jennifer Willems ROANOKE — Steve Wagner has always been the kind of guy who needs proof before he accepts […]
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Photo Caption: Donna Medina, Felicia Schafer, and Erin Neff were among those taking part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new hospice home on Dec. 4. Asking God to bless the new OSF Richard L. Owens Hospice Home and all who would come through its doors, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, showered the new facility […]
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THOMASBORO — A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 7, at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church here for Father Stanley J. Malinowski, who guided St. Malachy’s Parish in Rantoul for 25 years and was in residence at the Thomasboro parish since 2001. Father Malinowski, a senior priest since 1997, died […]
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