WASHINGTON (CNS) — Keeping a pro-life sensibility during hard economic times can actually help a society through those trying years, Pope Benedict XVI said in his third encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”). In a social encyclical on development and the world’s financial crisis, the pope said it is important to keep in mind […]
Continue readingVATICAN CITY (CNS) — Ethical values are needed to overcome the current global economic crisis as well as to eradicate hunger and promote the real development of all the world’s peoples, Pope Benedict XVI said in his new encyclical. The document, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”), was dated June 29 and released at the […]
Continue readingRating: L (PG-13) NEW YORK (CNS) — The following is a capsule review of a movie recently reviewed by the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Generally well-acted if sometimes soggy family drama about a strong-willed mother (Cameron Diaz excellent in a not-always-likable part), in denial about her teenage […]
Continue readingCentral Illinois Right to Life, OSF Saint Francis Medical Center and WPEO Christian Talk Radio will sponsor a 5K “Run for Life” run/walk next month in support of the protection of all human life from conception to natural death. The event will be Saturday, Aug. 8, in Lower Bradley Park, Peoria. Check-in is from 6:30 […]
Continue readingBLOOMINGTON — Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Peoria is planning an adoption orientation on Tuesdays, July 14 and 21, at Holy Trinity Church, 711 N. Main St. It will begin at 6 p.m. The two-part orientation is designed to help participants understand the process of infant adoption as well explore their options. Anyone who […]
Continue readingMETAMORA — Catholics of the Diocese of Peoria who are widowed or divorced are again invited to a day of spiritual healing next month with noted retreat master Archabbot Lambert Reilly, OSB. Archabbot Lambert will be the featured speaker during a Widowed and Divorced Diocesan Day of Recollection on Saturday, Aug. 8, at 10 a.m., […]
Continue readingPRINCEVILLE — Catholics who are looking for new ways to spend some quiet time with the Blessed Mother and her Son in the mysteries of the rosary are invited to join the Community of St. John in prayer with “Contemplating His Face.” The two-CD set presents all 20 decades of the rosary with meditations preceding […]
Continue readingPONTIAC — “God’s love saves us.” That was the message dozens of young visitors to the house of St. Paul were asked by the apostle to spread to Christians living in fear around Rome. Only this wasn’t Rome. It was Pontiac. And St. Paul’s “house” was really a portion of the kindergarten room at St. […]
Continue readingCalling it “a great moment to renew our love for and loyalty to Jesus Christ and our holy priesthood,” Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, led applause and prayers of gratitude for priests celebrating jubilee years and those newly ordained during a Mass in their honor at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria on June 25. The […]
Continue readingA resolution of the state budget crisis remained elusive after Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn vetoed a budget bill on Wednesday that included huge funding shortfalls for social service programs. The governor’s veto came one day after U.S. District Judge John F. Grady issued an order requiring the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to […]
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