METAMORA — St. Mary’s School here will benefit from a golf outing planned for Friday, Aug. 5, at Snag Creek Golf Course in Washburn. Check in for the four-person scramble will be at 11 a.m., with a shotgun start set for noon. A dinner will follow at 5:30 p.m. at Snyder Village Center in Metamora. […]
Continue readingTo assist teachers and directors of religious education as they prepare to welcome students back to class, the diocesan Office of Catechetics is offering a Catechetical Conference on Saturday, Aug. 6. It will be held at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria. “We are looking forward to the conference as it is the first time […]
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Photo Caption: The new $17.5 million Birthing Center at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington will be blessed July 29, and be open for tours the following day. BLOOMINGTON — OSF St. Joseph Medical Center will deliver on some great expectations when it unveils its new state-of-the-art Birthing Center next Saturday, July 30. The […]
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Photo Caption: Parishes across the Diocese of Peoria will plan for the future in concert with neighboring parishes under a new initiative called “Growing in Faith Together.” Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, has called all parishes and missions in the Diocese of Peoria to begin a yearlong process of planning for the future. The major […]
Continue readingMETAMORA — St. Mary’s School here will benefit from a golf outing planned for Friday, Aug. 5, at Snag Creek Golf Course in Washburn. Check in for the four-person scramble will be at 11 a.m., with a shotgun start set for noon. A dinner will follow at 5:30 p.m. at Snyder Village Center in Metamora. […]
Continue readingWASHINGTON (CNS) — As the effort to pass the DREAM Act hits its 10th anniversary, churches, synagogues and mosques around the country will devote a September weekend to teaching their congregations about the faith-based reasons to work for its passage. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., flanked by priests, bishops, rabbis, ministers and an imam, announced July […]
Continue readingBERLIN (CNS) — A German appeals court has upheld the conviction of a traditionalist bishop for denying the Holocaust. On July 11, the court ruled against British Bishop Richard Williamson, a member of the Society of St. Pius X, who in a 2009 TV interview said that the Holocaust was exaggerated and that no Jews […]
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Photo Caption: Daniel Radcliffe, front, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint star in a scene from the movie “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2.” By: By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The last battle of the almost-grownup Harry Potter may be too scary for young viewers, but it champions […]
Continue readingCHAMPAIGN — More than 200 teens, young adults and adults from Illinois, Tennessee, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ohio will participate in the weeklong Catholic HEART Workcamp in Champaign-Urbana and surrounding areas the week of July 17-23. Catholic HEART (Helping Everyone Attain Repairs Today) Workcamp gives campers an opportunity to live their faith as they […]
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Photo Caption: “Grave harm” would result if Catholic Charities were to be forced out of its longstanding mission of serving children in foster care and adoption, said Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC. By: By Nancy Frazier O’Brien, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Two Catholic bishops praised an Illinois judge’s ruling late July 12 that […]
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