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By: The Catholic Post - June 25, 2018 -
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100 years old. birthday, CHM, music, Rock Island, Sister Cecelia Vandeberg, St. Pius X, Teacher
Sister Mary Cecelia Vandeberg dressed for music ministry as a young Sister of Humility (left) and in 2018 as she approached her 100th birthday on June 26. Still going strong, she visits nursing home residents once a week and makes a Holy Hour every afternoon.
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Sister Cecelia Vandeberg, CHM, once helped to fill the halls of St. Pius X School in Rock Island with music. Now the Congregation of the Humility of Mary is inviting friends and former students to fill her mailbox with cards and letters for her 100th birthday. Sister Cecelia will reach that milestone […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 25, 2018 -
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Father Geoffrey Horton, Father Johnathan Steffen, Father Stephen Willard
New pastors have been named for three parishes and St. John Paul II Catholic Newman Center in Normal is getting a new chaplain in clergy appointments announced in June by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC. Father Stephen Willard will become pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Peoria. For the past five years, he […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 25, 2018 -
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Galesburg Vicariate, Monmouth, Msgr. Thomas Mack, vicar
Msgr. Thomas Mack
Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, has appointed Msgr. Thomas Mack as vicar of the Galesburg Vicariate. Msgr. Mack succeeds Msgr. Ernest Pizzamiglio, longtime pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Galesburg, who had served as vicar of the region for 28 years prior to his move to senior status this month. — Related story: […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 22, 2018 -
Movie Review
Gambino crime family, John Gotti, John Travolta, Stacy Keach
John Travolta stars in a scene from the movie "Gotti." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Vertical Entertainment)
By Catholic News Service Low-budget crime saga about mobster John Gotti (John Travolta) who, director Kevin Connolly and screenwriters Lem Dobbs and Leo Rossi would have the viewer believe, was mostly a misunderstood family man, attentive — according to his own lights — to his wife (Kelly Preston) and two sons (Spencer Lofrano and Nico […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 21, 2018 -
Movie Review
Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, dinosaurs
Chris Pratt stars in a scene from the movie "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Follow-up to the 2015 reboot of a franchise that began with Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster 1993 screen version of Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel “Jurassic Park.” With the last of the cloned dinosaurs at the heart of the series facing extinction due to a volcanic eruption, the former head (Bryce Dallas Howard) of […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 21, 2018 -
Movie Review
Bollywood, subtitles
By Catholic News Service With this wild action thriller, in Hindi with English subtitles, director Remo D’Souza reboots the Bollywood franchise with a new cast and a stand-alone story. It’s a whirlwind of a movie, part family soap opera, part James Bond adventure, and part “Dancing with the Stars.” An Indian mobster (Anil Kapoor) lives […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 20, 2018 -
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Julie Carrick
RAPIDS CITY — “Intentional Disciples: Mary, the Apostles and Us” is the theme for a presentation planned for Monday, July 2, at St. John the Baptist Church, 1413 Third Ave. It will begin at 7 p.m. and be given by speaker, liturgical musician and recording artist Julie Carrick. Based in Arizona, Carrick uses “catechetical artistry” […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 20, 2018 -
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125 years, Bloomington, St. Patrick
Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, will preside at a 5 p.m. Mass on Saturday, June 30, at Historic St. Patrick Church, Bloomington.
BLOOMINGTON — Members of Historic St. Patrick Church, 1209 W. Locust, will celebrate 125 years of that history and faith next Saturday, June 30. Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, will join them and preside at the 5 p.m. Mass. A reception, including dinner catered by Biaggi’s, will follow in the parish hall. No reservations are […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 20, 2018 -
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final of a three-part series written by Dr. Michael Porubcin, a member of St. Ambrose Parish in Milan. Dr. Porubcin is a hematologist and oncologist who serves as vice president of the St. Thomas Aquinas Guild of the Quad Cities, a chartered guild of the Catholic Medical Association. In the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 20, 2018 -
Living the Word
Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB
By Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist/June 24 Isaiah 49:1-6; Psalm 139:1b-3,13-14ab,14c-15; Acts 13:22-26; Luke 1:57-66,80 Each life God has created is a story. Whether or not we are aware, we tell a story by our words and actions. We may not know the impact or the meaning of […]
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