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By: The Catholic Post - July 5, 2019 -
Living the Word
Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB
By Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / July 7 Isaiah 66:10-14c; Psalm 66:1-3,4-5,6-7,16,20; Galatians 6:14-18; Luke 10:1-12,17-20 Recently I was present with several people meeting with state officials about a prison ministry program. Families of prisoners shared stories of their loneliness as a relative of someone in prison. They spoke of the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 5, 2019 -
News Article
died, Father Richard Bresnahan, Moline, social justice
Father Richard Bresnahan
(UPDATE — For the full text of the homily at the funeral Mass for Father Bresnahan, click here.) MOLINE — A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Monday, July 8, at Christ the King Church here for Father Richard Bresnahan, 87, a senior priest of the Diocese of Peoria known […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 3, 2019 -
News Article, The Sheen Corner
By Katie Bogner “The purpose of the Holy Hour is to encourage a deep personal encounter with Christ. The Holy and Glorious God is constantly inviting us to come to Him, to hold converse with Him, to ask for such things as we need and to experience what a blessing there is in fellowship with […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 28, 2019 -
Book Review
Reviewed by Nancy Piccione Nearly three years ago, 85-year-old priest Father Jacques Hamel was martyred by two Islamic state terrorists while he was celebrating daily Mass at the parish in Normandy, France, where he lived as a retired priest. I vividly recall how moved I was by the accounts of him, and his witness to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 28, 2019 -
Movie Review
Jake Gyllenhaal, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Holland, Zendaya
Numan Acar, Tom Holland and Jake Gyllenhaal star in a scene from the movie "Spider-Man: Far From Home." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service True to its title, this snappy follow-up to 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming” finds the eponymous superhero (Tom Holland) traveling across Europe on a summer trip organized for the students of his alter ego Peter Parker’s high school. He wants to spend the journey courting the classmate with whom he’s smitten (Zendaya). But […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 27, 2019 -
Uncategorized
The Diocese of Peoria has announced that, early this morning (June 27), the mortal remains of Archbishop Fulton Sheen were disinterred from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York and are being transferred to St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria. Special weekend hours have been established at St. Mary's for the public to visit the new tomb of Archbishop Sheen. (Sheen image from the cover of his book, "Your Life is Worth Living: the Christian Philosophy of Life.")
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following press release was issued this morning (June 27, 2019) by the Diocese of Peoria. Most Rev. Daniel Jenky, Bishop of Peoria, is happy to announce that the remains of Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen have been transferred from St. Patrick Cathedral, New York, to the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 26, 2019 -
Movie Review
"Conjuring", Gary Dauberman, Mckenna Grace, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga
Madison Iseman, Katie Sarife and McKenna Grace star in a scene from the movie "Annabelle Comes Home." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Lame third installment in the saga of the titular devilish dolly, set in the early 1970s, opens with her being safely locked away in the home of real-life do-it-yourself demonologists Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) Warren. But when the couple travel out of town a year later, leaving their […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 26, 2019 -
News Article
The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, are seen June 24 after they drowned in the Rio Grande in Matamoro, Mexico, while trying to reach the United States. (CNS/Reuters)
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — U.S. bishops joined Pope Francis in expressing sadness after seeing photos of the lifeless bodies of a migrant father and his daughter who drowned near the U.S. border with Mexico. “This image cries to heaven for justice. This image silences politics. Who can look on this picture and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 25, 2019 -
Movie Review
Beatles, Danny Boyle, Ed Sheeran, Himesh Patel, Kate McKinnon, Lily James, Richard Curtis
Himesh Patel stars in a scene from the movie "Yesterday." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service A British-Indian shelf stocker (Himesh Patel) whose side career as a musician and singer is going nowhere finds his life transformed when a brief but global blackout somehow retroactively removes the Beatles from history and from everyone’s memory except his. That leaves him free to become the world’s most famous performer […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 21, 2019 -
Movie Review
Animated characters Buzz Lightyear, voiced by Tim Allen, Woody, voiced by Tom Hanks, and Bo, voiced by Annie Potts, appear in the movie "Toy Story 4." The Catholic News Service classification is A-I -- general patronage. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service Delightful addition to the animated franchise in which the cowboy leader (voice of Tom Hanks) of the familiar gang of toys who come to life when humans aren’t looking becomes the mentor of a homemade doll (voice of Tony Hale) his kid owner (voice of Madeleine McGraw) fashioned primarily out of […]
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