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By: The Catholic Post - February 14, 2018 -
News Article
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If you have yet to renew your subscription to The Catholic Post, allow us to offer one more reason to do so in 2018. Actually, we’ll offer 5,000 reasons. A gift to The Catholic Post’s 2018 Delivering Unity Campaign not only brings this award-winning diocesan newspaper to your home throughout the year, it is also […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 14, 2018 -
Movie Review
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan star in a scene from the movie "Fifty Shades Freed." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS photo/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Absurdities alternate with exploitative sex scenes in this screen version of the third novel in E.L. James’ tawdry trilogy. With their sadomasochistic relationship now solemnized by marriage, a fabulously wealthy, controlling tycoon (Jamie Dornan) and his mousy book editor of a bride (Dakota Johnson) look forward to a life of private […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 14, 2018 -
News Article
Rite of Election, St. Mary's Cathedral
Sister Paulette Joerger, OP, of St. Malachy Parish in Rantoul introduces a candidate to Bishop Jenky during the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion last spring. This year's ceremonies will take place Feb. 18 and Feb. 25. (The Catholic Post file/Jennifer Willems)
Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, will welcome nearly 300 children, women and men to St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria over the next two weekends as they begin the final period of preparation to be received into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil. The Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion will be celebrated […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 14, 2018 -
Living the Word
Shawn Reeves
By Shawn Reeves First Sunday of Lent/Feb. 18 Genesis 9:8-15; Psalm 25:4-5,6-7,8-9; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15 Catholics are often accused of a mentality of “earning” our salvation, of emphasizing our response to God as if we were the singular cause of graces received. However, my observation is that all Christians fall prey to an exaggeration […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 8, 2018 -
Movie Review
Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler and Spencer Stone portray themselves in the movie "15:17 to Paris." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III --
adults. (CNS/courtesy Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Uneven drama recounting the circumstances that led up to the thwarting, in August 2015, of a terrorist attack and potential massacre on the train of the title. Traveling from Amsterdam to the French capital as tourists, a trio of Americans (Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone all portraying themselves), two […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 8, 2018 -
News Article
Bloomington, funeral, Msgr. Ketcham, St. John's Catholic Newman Center, St. Patrick Church of Merna, University of Illinois
Msgr. Gregory Ketcham
BLOOMINGTON — A Mass of Christian Burial was offered at St. Patrick Church of Merna here on Monday for Msgr. Gregory Ketcham, 50, pastor emeritus who died at the parish rectory on Feb. 9, 2018 — 20 months after being diagnosed with brain cancer. “Grace flowed through him,” said Father James Seitz of Msgr. Ketcham, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 7, 2018 -
Featured Article
Appeal, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, beatification, court, Diocese of Peoria, New York, Sheen
The New York court has granted Joan Sheen Cunningham the right to remove the remains of her uncle, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (pictured), from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City for transfer to St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria.
The Diocese of Peoria remained confident that legal issues surrounding the transfer of the remains of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen from New York to Peoria will soon be resolved after the New York Court of Appeals on Feb. 6 sent the case back to the original court for an evidentiary hearing. “Please continue your prayers […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 5, 2018 -
Movie Review
Beatrix Potter, James Corden
Peter Rabbit, voiced by James Corden, appears in the animated movie "Peter Rabbit." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Sony Pictures)
By Catholic News Service The anthropomorphic characters in Beatrix Potter’s beloved children’s books are showcased but also transformed in this manic comedy, a mix of live action and CGI animation directed and co-written by Will Gluck. The eponymous bunny (voice of James Corden), here a fast-talking juvenile delinquent, a hipster dude with a nasty murderous […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 5, 2018 -
Movie Review
By Catholic News Service Animated adventure story about seventh-century Arabian hero Bilal ibn Rabah, who eventually became a companion of the prophet Muhammad and is considered the first muezzin — the prayer caller at a mosque. Someone without a grounding in the basics of the Muslim faith and history of the Arabian Peninsula is likely […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 5, 2018 -
Movie Review
Helen Mirren, horror, Jason Clarke
Jason Clarke and Helen Mirren star in a scene from the movie "Winchester." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/CBS Films and Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Horror dud riffing on the real-life mania that compelled fabulously wealthy arms heiress Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren) to maintain constant construction on the San Jose, California, house she lived in over a period of nearly four decades, a project that ended only with her death. Commissioned by the board of directors of […]
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