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By: The Catholic Post - March 24, 2017 -
News Article
Diocese of Peoria, fish fry, Lent, list
A young volunteer displays food prepared for dinners served at a Friday evening fish fry. CNS/Jim West
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following list was compiled from information provided to The Catholic Post. New listings will be featured as we are made aware. To add a fish fry, email details to cathpost@cdop.org. Put “Fish Fry” in the subject line. BLOOMINGTON: The Knights of Columbus, Father Joseph Boylan Jr. Council No. 15175, will have […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 22, 2017 -
News Article
Deacon Henry "Hank" Hart
CHAMPAIGN – A funeral Mass was celebrated on March 22 at Holy Cross Church here for Deacon Henry “Hank” Riley Hart, 86, a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Peoria for nearly 25 years who served Holy Cross Parish. Deacon Hart died on Saturday, March 18, 2017, at his home in Champaign. Father David Sajdak, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 22, 2017 -
Living the Word
Shawn Reeves
Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday)/March 26 1 Samuel 16:1b,6-7,10-13a; Psalm 23:1-3a,3b-4,5,6; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 When I was younger, I was fascinated with the biology of the human eye, so much so that I adopted the topic for my junior high science fair project. I was captivated by the precision with which the ocular pigments […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 22, 2017 -
Featured Article
Mary Ann Fahey, liturgical music director at St. Anthony Parish in Bartonville and director of the St. Anthony Camerate Chorale Ecumenical Festival Choir, greets Pope Francis during an international conference on sacred music at the Vatican March 2-4. (Provided photo)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is a first person report by Mary Ann Fahey. Music, not just any music, but sacred music, and how it has evolved these past 50 years since Vatican Council II was the topic of discussion at a recent conference called by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture and Catholic Education. My husband, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 17, 2017 -
Movie Review
Emma Watson stars in a scene from the movie "Beauty and the Beast." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service Disney’s live-action adaptation of its beloved 1991 animated film is an imaginative if problematic work, an old-fashioned Hollywood musical with an arresting visual style. The eponymous lovely (Emma Watson) exchanges places with her kidnapped father (Kevin Kline) in a haunted castle inhabited by a furry monster (Dan Stevens), who is in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 17, 2017 -
Movie Review
By Catholic News Service Poorly conceived drama about workplace competition, probably intended as an allegory, wallows in meaningless gore. Employees of a Colombia field office of a faceless American corporation are ordered, on the PA system, to start killing each other so that more won’t die. Director Greg McLean and screenwriter James Gunn orchestrate a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 13, 2017 -
Movie Review
Rosamund Pike, Madison Manowe and David Oyelowo star in a scene from the movie "A United Kingdom." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Everyone’s an archetype in this historical drama about an African prince (David Oyelowo) from the British protectorate of Bechuanaland (the future Botswana) who faced down mid-20th-century racial prejudice to marry a white office worker (Rosamund Pike) he met in post-World War II London. Although dealing in generalities can be an efficient […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 13, 2017 -
Movie Review
This is a scene from the movie "Kong: Skull Island." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Impressive monster movie, set in 1973, in which an ensemble of scientists and soldiers — the civilians led by a fringe researcher (John Goodman), the troops by a hard-bitten colonel (Samuel L. Jackson) — travel to a previously uncharted island where they encounter an updated version of King Kong. As a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 10, 2017 -
News Article
Melissa Ohden
EUREKA — Eureka College Students for Life is bringing abortion survivor Melissa Ohden to campus on Tuesday, March 21. She will speak at 5:30 p.m. in the Terrill Rooms of the Cerf Center, 300 E. College Ave. Ohden survived a failed saline infusion abortion in 1977 at approximately seven months gestation. In 2012 she founded […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 9, 2017 -
Living the Word
Shawn Reeves
By Shawn Reeves Second Sunday of Lent/March 12 Genesis 12:1-4a; Psalm 33:4-5,18-19,20,22; 2 Timothy 1:8b-10; Matthew 17:1-9 The unknown is uncomfortable. We can neither anticipate its outcomes nor prepare for its challenges. It remains undefined and foreign. And so we tend to flee from it as far as we can. But seldom do we succeed in […]
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