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By: Tom Dermody - January 12, 2022 -
News Article
A business card-sized welcome message including a QR code for scanning by smartphone cameras is seen on the back of a pew at Sacred Heart Church in Rock Island. (Provided photo)
ROCK ISLAND — Are QR codes coming to a church pew near you? That question would make no sense to Catholics just a few years ago. But as the square bar codes — the QR stands for “quick response” — become more utilized by restaurants and other businesses, the church is giving them a try […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 12, 2022 -
Columnists
My Vocation is Love / By Lindsey Weishar I’ve recently returned to “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Since reading the books a few years ago, a particular detail from “The Fellowship” continues to delight me: the baths. Maybe you know the detail I mean. Frodo, Sam, […]
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By: Tom Dermody - January 12, 2022 -
Columnists
In My Father’s House / Paul Thomas Moore It’s hard to be still — to not want to fill the time and space in our lives with “stuff.” Hard to wait on what the Lord has in mind for what we perceive as emptiness, and he sees as an opportunity to be a greater part […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 12, 2022 -
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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 The Mass was celebrated at St. John the Baptist Church in Clinton and has been archived for viewing here.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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By: The Catholic Post - January 12, 2022 -
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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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By: The Catholic Post - January 11, 2022 -
Editorial
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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By: The Catholic Post - January 8, 2022 -
Movie Review
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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By: The Catholic Post - January 5, 2022 -
News Article
Father James Henning, OFM Conv.
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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By: The Catholic Post - January 4, 2022 -
News Article
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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By: Jennifer Willems - January 4, 2022 -
Featured Article
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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