LONDON (CNS) — Three former Anglican bishops were received into the Catholic Church just hours after they officially gave up their ministries in the Church of England. Bishops Andrew Burnham of Ebbsfleet, John Broadhurst of Fulham and Keith Newton of Richborough will be soon ordained as priests for a special Anglican ordinariate that will be […]
Continue readingNEW YORK (CNS) — The Nassau County Department of Health on New York’s Long Island is offering immune globulin or hepatitis A vaccine to parishioners at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Massapequa Park who might have been exposed to hepatitis A when receiving Communion at two Christmas Day Masses. Mary Ellen Laurain, a spokeswoman […]
Continue readingA MEMORIAL Mass will be celebrated at Sacred Heart Church in Peoria at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 16, for Father Marne Breckensiek, OFM, who served as pastor of the downtown Peoria parish for 24 years. Father Marne died on Dec. 29, 2009, at St. Margaret Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was 71. A Mass […]
Continue readingBy: Ninth Festival Letter of the Most Rev. Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, Bishop of Peoria In the early centuries of Catholic Christianity, when calendars were uncommon and often imprecise, a bishop would send out an annual “Festival Letter” to announce the proper dates for observing the fasts and feasts of the Liturgical Year. It was […]
Continue readingTHE OVEN temperature was inadvertently omitted from one of the recipes in “A Taste of Christmas,” which was published in The Catholic Post on Dec. 20, 2009. The recipe for Pringle Sticks, which was submitted by Linda McCabe of St. Louis Parish in Princeton, should have noted that the Christmas morning pastry needs to be […]
Continue readingBy: Msgr. Stuart Swetland Epiphany of the Lord, Jan. 3 Isaiah 60:1-6; Psalm 72:1-2,7-8,10-11,12-13; Ephesians 3:2-3a,5-6; Matthew 2:1-12 VERY OFTEN our Sunday readings are selected so as to emphasize the “prophecy-fulfillment” mode of reading sacred Scripture. This means that the first reading from the Old Testament is seen to be fulfilled in the proclamation of […]
Continue readingOne week before Christmas, the Children’s Hospital of Illinois at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria announced it had received a most generous gift. Don and Barbara Western, members of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Peoria, have donated $5 million to the new home now under construction for Children’s Hospital, the Milestone building. […]
Continue readingVOLUNTEER catechists throughout central Illinois have been asking for assistance with classroom management, curriculum development, lesson planning and formation in Scripture and Catholic doctrine, and that help is on the way. Starting this month, the diocesan Office of Catechetics will offer “Let My People Come,” a yearlong series of presentations at parishes around the Diocese […]
Continue readingNAUVOO — Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Nauvoo will host a concert at 3 p.m. next Sunday, Jan. 10, in conjunction with the dedication of its newly installed 1874 E.G. & G. Hook and Hastings pipe organ. The historic 985-pipe instrument — once housed in the Unitarian Church in Keokuk, Iowa — was obtained […]
Continue readingCalling human trafficking “a modern day form of slavery,” the Catholic bishops of Illinois and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious of Illinois have issued a joint statement urging people of good will to seek its end through prayer, work and education. “Eradicating Human Trafficking” comes at the beginning of National Migration Week, which is […]
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