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By: The Catholic Post - February 21, 2023 -
News Article
Mary Ralph of Holy Family Parish in Peoria hands fish dinners to Jim Stomberg during the parish’s Lenten fish fry on Friday, Feb. 24, at Holy Family School. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
The following list was compiled from information provided to The Catholic Post. New listings will be added as they become available. If you would like to add a fish fry, send an email to Jennifer Willems at jwillems@cdop.org. — BLOOMINGTON: The Knights of Columbus, Father John D. Ring Council 574, will hold a fish fry every […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 21, 2023 -
Featured Article
A file photo shows a crown of thorns at St. Bonaventure Church in Paterson, N.J. Lent begins on Feb. 22, Ash Wednesday. (OSV News photo/Octavio Duran)
Fish fry listings posted, will be updated With the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, comes a listing of fish dinners being offered around the Diocese of Peoria. Information provided to The Catholic Post can be found in the print edition and will be added to our comprehensive online listing as it becomes […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 17, 2023 -
Columnists
In My Father’s House l Paul Thomas Moore It’s my impression that the readership of The Catholic Post tends to skew somewhat toward the traditionally conservative. If you (like me) fit in this category, perhaps you — like me — find some of what the media reports Pope Francis as saying on certain issues to be […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 17, 2023 -
Columnists
Cause of Our Joy l Katie Faley A friend from grad school recently welcomed her first son and gave him the name Oscar. No, my friend didn’t name her baby after the grouchy monster who lives on Sesame Street. She named him after one of her favorite saints, Oscar Romero. St. Oscar Romero was an archbishop in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 17, 2023 -
Living the Word
Carla Oliver
Living the Word l Carla Oliver Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time l Feb. 19 Leviticus 19:1-2,17-18; Psalm 103:1-2,3-4,8,10,12-13; 1 Corinthians 3:16-23; Matthew 5:38-48 Looking at the Sunday readings and knowing that I was responsible for writing a reflection to share with all of you was quite daunting. I followed my usual routine — to carve out […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 17, 2023 -
Movie Review
Paul Rudd and Jonathan Majors star in a scene from the movie “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” The OSV News classification is A-III -- adults.(OSV News photo/Disney)
By OSV News Visually imaginative but dramatically flat third installment in the screen adventures of the romantically linked superheroes of the title (Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly). Together with his daughter (Kathryn Newton) and her parents (Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Douglas), the duo find themselves unwillingly transported to the subatomic Quantum Realm where they get […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 9, 2023 -
Movie Review
Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek Pinault star in a scene from the movie "Magic Mike's Last Dance." The OSV News classification is O -- morally offensive. (OSV News photo/Claudette Barius, Warner Bros.)
By OSV News Third helping of beefcake in the male stripper-themed series that began in 2012. This time out, the titular clothes peeler (Channing Tatum) pairs with a rich Londoner (Salma Hayek Pinault) who’s in the process of divorcing her possessive husband to craft a musical production the basic message of which is that women […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 3, 2023 -
Movie Review
Rita Moreno, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Sally Field star in a scene from the movie "80 For Brady." The OSV News classification is A-III -- adults. (OSV News photo/Paramount Pictures)
By OSV News An ensemble of talented stars (Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno and Sally Field) is left becalmed by the inertia of this going-through-the-motions paean to football fandom. Led by Tomlin’s character, a quartet of elderly pals who have long been devotees of the New England Patriots and the celebrated quarterback of the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 3, 2023 -
Movie Review
Abby Quinn, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Dave Bautista, and Rupert Grint, star in a scene from the movie “Knock at the Cabin.” The OSV News classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (OSV News photo/Universal)
By OSV News Offbeat but effective thriller in which a quartet of intruders (led by Dave Bautista) take a vacationing same-sex couple (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) and their young adopted daughter (Kristen Cui) hostage for what turns out to be a bizarre reason. All the members of the group, they explain, have had matching […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 3, 2023 -
Book Review
Reviewed by Matthew Vander Vennet When we speak of St. Thomas Aquinas, most people familiar with the “Angelic Doctor” would tend automatically to think of his great contribution to Catholic theology and philosophy and as the Scholastic theologian par excellence. Even those more familiar with Aquinas would probably think of his two great works — […]
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