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A gift to Post’s Delivering Unity Campaign is a subscription

The Catholic Post’s 2012 Delivering Unity Campaign is off to a fast start, with nearly 4,000 contributions recorded in the first two weeks of the campaign. We are very grateful. Judging from phone calls, we also admit that some confusion has arisen because of the new name for what had been our annual subscription drive. […]

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Scouts of diocese earn religious emblems; urged to be healers

Photo Caption: Father Glenn Harris, diocesan director and chaplain of Catholic Boy and Girl Scouts, hands out a religious emblem to one of more than 100 recipients at the annual Diocesan Scout Mass Feb. 12. By: By Tom Dermody Pledges to help other people are part of the Girl Scout and Cub Scout promises as […]

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Cathedral rites Feb. 26 to encourage 300 on faith journey

Despite continuing threats to religious liberty, Catholics around the Diocese of Peoria will have cause to celebrate next Sunday when more than 200 people come to St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria to declare their intention to proceed to the Easter Sacraments. The Rite of Election and the Call to Continuing Conversion will take place at […]

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Bishop Jenky’s message and regulations as Lent begins

My dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, As we enter into this Lenten season, the Church once again invites us to use this opportunity to share more fully in the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ. It is essential that we cultivate a deeper sense of prayer, fasting and almsgiving to better offer our lives to […]

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Learning the value of a spiritual ‘mulligan’

By: By Tim Irwin Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feb. 19 Isaiah 43:18-19,21-22,24b-25; Psalm 41:2-3,4-5,13-14; 2 Corinthians 1:18-22; Mark 2:1-12 All golfers know the value of a mulligan. It offers the repentant the chance to redo an errant shot without having to count the mistake. No golfer actually deserves a mulligan; it’s given not earned. […]

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Our prophetic bishop

As 2012 began, our Bishop of Peoria issued a teaching document that, let’s face it, didn’t have the most grab-your-interest title: “Secularism.” But the days that followed its Jan. 8 release make Bishop Jenky seem like a prophet, and his teaching more of a must-read than ever. The bishop, you recall, warned of a political […]

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Obama compromise on mandate ‘unacceptable,’ say U.S. bishops

Photo Caption: U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement at the White House in Washington Feb. 10 as Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius looks on. By: By Nancy Frazier O’Brien, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — In an move that appears unlikely to end the controversy over a federal mandate that all […]

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Sacred art show, sale Feb. 18-19 at Rock Island parish

ROCK ISLAND — “The Art of Faith,” a sacred art show and sale, will take place the weekend of Feb. 18-19 at Farrell Hall of St. Pius X Church, 2901 24th St. Planned by a local group of art enthusiasts interested also in promoting the Catholic faith, the exhibit will feature a dozen local artists […]

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