Father James Henning, OFM Conv.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is the full transcript from the homily given Jan. 6 at the funeral Mass for Father James Henning, OFM Conv. The Mass was celebrated at St. John the Baptist Church in Clinton and has been archived for viewing here. The homilist was Father Paul Joseph Langevin, OFM Conv. — My dear friends […]
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Father Robert Spilman
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is the transcript of the homily given at the funeral Mass for Father Robert Spilman, a senior priest of the Diocese of Peoria who died on Christmas Day at the age of 74. The funeral was Dec. 29, 2021, at The Nativity of Our Lord Parish in Spring Valley and is archived […]
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Harry Williams wrote hundreds of weekly, faith-based reflections that can be accessed at adoration.com.
The late Jesuit Father John Hardon believed that writing is a great asset to the spiritual life. “To be convinced of the worth of writing, daily — if only a few words — is to have made a giant stride on the road to sanctity,” he wrote in 1998. The reasons Father Hardon lists are […]
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Diane Kruger, Jessica Chastain and Lupita Nyong'o star in a scene from the movie "The 355." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Robert Viglasky, Universal Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Who needs one James Bond when you can have five Jane Bonds? That’s the premise behind this entertaining thriller featuring a quintet of lady spies, directed by Simon Kinberg. Global disaster looms when mercenaries acquire a cyber weapon that destabilizes technology with a single touch. Governments from the United States to […]
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CLINTON — A funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. John the Baptist Church here at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 6, for Father James Henning, OFM Conv., who served as pastor of the Clinton parish as well as Sacred Heart Parish in Farmer City since 2006. Father Jim died on Dec. 30, 2021, at […]
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Bishop Tylka was scheduled to pray for Epiphany Parish, whose church is pictured here, on Jan. 3. (Photo from epiphanyparish.com)
Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka has been praying for each parish in the Diocese of Peoria by name, as well as the religious communities serving in central Illinois. Everyone is invited to join Bishop Tylka in praying for the following parishes and religious communities that are being remembered in January: Jan. 1: Our Lady of the Lake […]
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The Office of Priestly Vocations has developed a monthly prayer calendar that includes the 21 seminarians, their families, our bishops, vocations leaders, and others.
Seminarians who returned to the Diocese of Peoria for Christmas consider these visits “grace-filled times,” not just because they get to see their families and friends, but because they have encounters with the people they will serve someday. “It can be easy to lose sight of our purpose while we are occupied with the busy […]
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Dori Laidler, a kindergarten student at St. Philomena School in Peoria, dons a Spiderman mask as she prays during a eucharistic procession on the school grounds in October. Safety measures remain in place at Catholic schools around the Diocese of Peoria as COVID-19, including the omicron variant, continued to surge at the beginning of 2022.(The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
Christmas break ended Jan. 3 for Catholic schools around the Diocese of Peoria, with almost all of them planning to welcome students at some point during the week. Safety measures were still very much in place as COVID-19 continued to surge in some areas. One exception was Holy Family School in Peoria, which posted a […]
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Katie Bogner holds a copy of her new book, "Through the Year with Mary: Ponder and Pray Together with Children." A popular blogger at looktohimandberadiant.com, Bogner is the director of religious education at Immaculate Conception Parish in Lacon and a junior high faith formation teacher at St. Philomena School in Peoria. (Provided photo)
Reviewed by Katie Faley “Through the Year with Mary: Ponder and Pray Together with Children” is a grand way to start 2022. Katie Bogner, local author and active Catholic young adult, wrote this definitive companion for living out the entire year with the Mother of God. It is the follow up to her first book, […]
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Mary Ann Heinz
CREVE COEUR — A funeral Mass was celebrated on Dec. 23 at St. Ann Church in Peoria for Mary Ann Heinz, a longtime coordinator of Natural Family Planning (NFP) in the Diocese of Peoria and the mother of 17 children. Mrs. Heinz died on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, at her Creve Coeur home. She was […]
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