METAMORA — 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 […]
Continue readingWith a nod to the faith, example, and mission of The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis and all who continue it, the John Bearce family of Washington has pledged $1 million to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center’s new Milestone Building, now under construction. The $280 million Milestone Project is a year away […]
Continue readingIn a study released June 29 by the Pew Research Center, it was reported that 25 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 29 identified themselves as being atheists, agnostics or having no religion. It would have been tough to prove that on the streets of downtown Peoria on a recent Friday night, […]
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Photo Caption: Forty-seven years after leaving Cuba as teenagers and living in Guardian Angel Home in West Peoria, the nine reunion participants pose with former home chaplain Fr. Richard Mullen in Champaign June 27 By: By Tom Dermody The Fourth of July weekend is all about gratitude for the freedoms we enjoy in the United […]
Continue readingBy: By Msgr. Stuart Swetland Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 5 Ezekiel 2:2-5; Psalm 123:1-2,2,3-4; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Mark 6:1-6 My studentsknow that I am fond of saying “sleep is for the weak.” This expression was drilled into me while I was in training at the Naval Academy. Sleep seemed like a luxury then […]
Continue readingMy wife and I have a priest in the family. We’ve “adopted” him. In fact, he’ll be joining us, usually around dinner time, each night for the next year. He just won’t know it. And we are far from alone. Hundreds have already responded to a prayer-for-priests initiative announced last week by the religious community […]
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