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“Clifford the Big Red Dog” (Paramount)

By: The Catholic Post - November 10, 2021 - Movie Review

Darby Camp and Jack Whitehall star in a scene from the movie "Clifford the Big Red Dog." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Paramount Pictures)

By Catholic News Service Slapstick humor is the order of the day in this silly but mostly harmless adaptation of a series of children’s books by Norman Bridwell, the first of which was published in 1963. Director Walt Becker mixes computer animation and live action to tell the story of a lonely New York City preteen (Darby […]

St. Dominic Church, Wyoming, celebrates restoration of pipe organ with recital

By: Tom Dermody - November 10, 2021 - Featured Article

Father John Cyr, pastor of St. Dominic Parish in Wyoming, uses incense to bless the newly restored 1930 Hinners pipe organ prior to a rededication recital on Nov. 7 featuring renowned concert organist Katelyn Emerson. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

WYOMING — St. Dominic Parish here celebrated the return of more than 600 singing “voices” to its church on Nov. 7 with a rededication recital showing off its newly restored pipe organ. Quoting St. Augustine that “singing is praying twice” and noting the number of pipes on the church’s 91-year-old Hinners organ, Father John Cyr […]

Msgr. James Swaner, 85, dies; funeral Mass is Thursday at St. Mary Church in Utica

By: The Catholic Post - November 9, 2021 - News Article

Msgr. James Swaner

UTICA — A funeral Mass will be offered at St. Mary Church here at noon on Thursday, Nov. 11, for Msgr. James J. Swaner, a senior priest of the Diocese of Peoria who served Catholic parishes and schools in LaSalle County for five decades. Msgr. Swaner, a former principal of Marquette Academy in Ottawa whose […]

Superintendent says diocese is listening, working on behalf of Alleman H.S.

By: The Catholic Post - November 7, 2021 - News Article

Concerns continue to be voiced about the direction and staffing of Alleman High School in Rock Island, with some questioning where the Diocese of Peoria is in all of this. In a column carried in The Dispatch and Rock Island Argus on Sunday, Nov. 7, Dr. Sharon Weiss said, “We are here. We are listening.” […]

“St. Dymphna’s Playbook”: a mental health resource from a Catholic perspective

By: The Catholic Post - November 4, 2021 - Book Review

Reviewed by Nancy Piccione Like most people, I am grateful to live in a time when mental health issues are discussed openly. In decades past, these topics were often minimized or stigmatized. And in some religious circles, mental health struggles could be overly spiritualized, and sometimes prayer was presented as the only solution. At the […]

Champaign couple’s gift establishes fellowship to honor Archbishop Myers

By: The Catholic Post - November 4, 2021 - News Article

Archbishop John J. Myers

The Papal Foundation has received a $200,000 gift from Dan and Marianne Harrington of Champaign to establish the Archbishop John J. Myers Fellowship in the area of canon law. This will make it possible for one scholar each year to study canon law at one of the Roman Pontifical Universities. The first recipient is Father […]

‘Day of the Dead’ altar at St. Mary Church, Bloomington, rich in symbolism, hope

By: Tom Dermody - November 4, 2021 - Featured Article

Diego Sanchez-Gomez places a photo of his late grandmother, Rosa Gomez, on the Day of the Dead altar at St. Mary Church in Bloomington. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

BLOOMINGTON — Members of St. Mary Parish here have a striking reminder to pray for the souls of the deceased during November with the construction of a tall, colorful Day of the Dead altar to the left of the sanctuary. “The bright colors and the flowers show us there is a tomorrow of happiness and […]

Katie Faley: All Souls’ Day and the saints who loved and celebrated death

By: The Catholic Post - November 4, 2021 - Columnists

Cause of Our Joy / Katie Faley Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said something recently that shook me up. After the passing of one of his good friends — a former professor colleague — the pope emeritus said, “Now he has arrived in the hereafter, where I am sure many of his friends are already waiting […]

Paul Moore: A birthday prayer party at grotto delivers the ‘best present ever’

By: The Catholic Post - November 4, 2021 - Columnists

The "rainbow connection" seen at Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in Germantown Hills. (Provided photo/Julie Vonachen)

In My Father’s House / Paul Thomas Moore Donna Vonachen Abdnour was born into Heaven on Oct. 25, 2021. Just a little more than two weeks previous, friends and family celebrated her final birthday on this side of Paradise. There were no streamers, ribbons, cake or ice cream — but those in attendance will never […]

Activities developed as companion resource to children’s book on Sheen

By: Jennifer Willems - November 3, 2021 - News Article Bonnie Engstrom, Fulton Sheen and the Very Bad Week, Katie Bogner, Mariam Khoury Briggs

A page from the activity book designed by Katie Boger is seen next to "Fulton Sheen and the Very Bad Week" by Bonnie Engstrom. The artwork by Mariam Khoury Briggs was used with her permission in Bogner's resource. (Provided photo)

“Fulton Sheen and the Very Bad Week” now has a companion activity book. Katie Bogner, junior high faith formation teacher at St. Philomena School in Peoria, designed it to help students in kindergarten through fourth grade learn more about Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. It also invites children to go deeper into one of the […]

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