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By: The Catholic Post - October 5, 2016 -
Movie Review
Dylan O'Brien and Mark Wahlberg star in a scene from the movie "Deepwater Horizon." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Forceful but grim dramatization of events surrounding the 2010 disaster that destroyed the titular drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Drawing on a New York Times article by David Barstow, David Rohde and Stephanie Saul, screenwriters Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand fix their focus on a quartet of principals: the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 26, 2016 -
News Article
Election, Peoria Heights, Ray LaHood, voting
Former Secretary of Transportation and U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood.
PEORIA HEIGHTS — Former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood will explore voting when he speaks on Tuesday, Oct. 4, at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 904 E. Lake Ave. His presentation begins at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the church. The public is invited. His talk will be based not on the words […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 26, 2016 -
Featured Article
40 Days for Life, Festival of Life, Knox County Right to Life, Life Chain, respect life
Johnny Berlinger holds a sign outside Peoria's abortion facility during a 40 Days for Life campaign in this Catholic Post file photo. The nationwide campaign of prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigils to end abortion will take place Sept. 28 to Nov. 6 in Champaign, Ottawa, Peoria, and the Quad Cities. (For The Catholic Post/Daryl Wilson)
EDITOR’S NOTE: October is Respect Life Month. Following is a round-up of several pro-life activities scheduled in the Diocese of Peoria in the coming days and weeks. PARTICIPANTS SOUGHT FOR AREA 40 DAYS FOR LIFE CAMPAIGNS Volunteers are being sought to take part in local observances of 40 Days for Life — a nationwide campaign […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 23, 2016 -
Movie Review
Byung-hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ethan Hawke, Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Vincent D'Onofrio and Martin Sensmeier star in a scene from the movie "The Magnificent Seven." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/MGM)
By Catholic News Service After a ruthless gold-mining mogul (Peter Sarsgaard) uses his private army of thugs to slaughter several inhabitants of a frontier town in cold blood, and threatens the survivors with a similar fate unless they sell their land to him for a pittance, the widow (Haley Bennett) of one of his victims […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 23, 2016 -
Movie Review
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in a scene from the movie "Snowden." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Open Road Films)
By Catholic News Service Interesting but one-sided and overlong biography of Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the controversial former intelligence officer who, in 2013, revealed to the press the existence of a secret National Security Agency program for the collection of mass data that he considered abusive. As Snowden recalls the events of his life, beginning […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 22, 2016 -
News Article
baking, bread monk, Craftsy.com, Father Dominic Garramone, online
Father Dominic Garramone, OSB, a monk of St. Bede Abbey and teacher at St. Bede Academy in Peru, has launched a class on Craftsy.com that will help people “Bake Your Best: Sweet Yeast Breads, Challah and More.” The former host of “Breaking Bread with Father Dominic” on PBS, he has written six cookbooks. Provided photo
PERU — It is now possible to take a class on baking from Father Dominic Garramone, OSB, of St. Bede Abbey without ever leaving home. Known as “The Bread Monk,” he launched an online class, “Bake Your Best: Sweet Yeast Breads, Challah and More,” through Craftsy.com on Sept. 6. The Craftsy platform allows students […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 22, 2016 -
News Article
John Michael Talbot, St. Patrick Parish, Urbana
John Michael Talbot's appearences in Urbana are part of the tour for his 55th album, "The Inner Room," which is being released this month.
URBANA — Christian recording artist and author John Michael Talbot will offer evenings of “Healing and Hope through Spoken Word and Sacred Song” at St. Patrick Church, 708 W. Main St., on Sunday, Oct. 16, and Monday, Oct. 17. Both will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are not required. In lieu of ticket sales, a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 21, 2016 -
News Article
Diocese of Peoria, homily, Mother Teresa, St. Teresa of Kolkata
Father Jeremy Freehill gives the homily at the diocesan celebration of the canonization of St. Teresa of Kolkata on Sept. 10. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is the the full text of the homily given by Father Jeremy Freehill at the diocesan celebration of the canonization of St. Teresa of Kolkata. The Sept. 10 Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria also marked 25 years of service in the Diocese of Peoria by the religious community she founded, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 21, 2016 -
Living the Word
By Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Sept. 25 Amos 6:1a,4-7; Psalm 146:7,8-9,9-10; 1 Timothy 6:11-16; Luke 16:19-31 William Bausch tells a story of a fox who said that he would provide worms for any bird that would share his feathers. One bird thought that this was a good idea, so it […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 16, 2016 -
Movie Review
Wes Robinson and Valorie Curry star in a scene from the movie "Blair Witch." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service The brother of the girl who disappeared in 1999’s “The Blair Witch Project” leads an expedition into the woods around Burkittsville, Maryland, seeking an ancient witch who predictably outsmarts this group of young campers. Director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett don’t try to do much with the “found footage” conceit […]
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