Following is the full text of the homily at the April 20 funeral Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria for Msgr. Joseph Zube. A longtime official with the Diocese of Peoria’s Marriage Tribunal, Msgr. Zube, 85, died April 15, 2011, at his West Peoria residence. The homilist was Father Brian Brownsey, director of priestly […]
Continue readingThe Diocese of Peoria has awarded a record $694,109 in tuition assistance grants to 606 Catholic school students for the 2011-12 academic year. The figure is the highest in the six years since the John Lancaster Spalding Fund for tuition assistance was established by contributions to the diocesan Rooted in Faith Capital Campaign. This year’s […]
Continue readingBishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, has invited all Catholic men of the Diocese of Peoria to join him on Saturday, May 14, for the eighth annual “A Call to Catholic Men of Faith.” The annual event, which has drawn up to 1,000 participants in past years, includes a gathering at the riverfront in downtown Peoria, […]
Continue readingFollowing is the full text of the homily at the April 20 funeral Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria for Msgr. Joseph Zube. A longtime official with the Diocese of Peoria’s Marriage Tribunal, Msgr. Zube, 85, died April 15, 2011, at his West Peoria residence. The full obituary appears elsewhere on The Catholic Post’s […]
Continue readingA funeral Mass was offered at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria on Wednesday, April 20, for Msgr. Joseph A. Zube, 85, who served the Diocese of Peoria’s Marriage Tribunal for more than five decades. Msgr. Zube, who was also a former pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish in Camp Grove and St. Monica’s Parish in East […]
Continue readingTo assist Catholics of the diocese in their Holy Week journey, we offer this video reflection on the Stations of the Cross using meditations written by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC. The 10-minute video features images of Stations from churches throughout the Diocese of Peoria. It was produced by The Catholic Post and is narrated […]
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Photo Caption: Deacon Nick Simon of St. Anthony’s Parish in Atkinson carries the Oil of the Sick in procession during the annual Chrism Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria on Tuesday, April 19. By: By Jennifer Willems of The Catholic Post A taste of heaven. Sharon Torres of Holy Trinity Parish in Bloomington used […]
Continue readingVATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI has decided the collection taken up at his Holy Thursday evening Mass will be used to help those affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan. The March 11 disaster left more than 13,000 people dead and another 13,700 unaccounted for. More than 150,000 were made […]
Continue readingWASHINGTON (CNS) — At a time when federal budget decisions “involve hard choices and much shared sacrifice,” a decision on whether to fund the Planned Parenthood Federation of America “is not one of those hard choices,” the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities told members of Congress. Calling the federation “by far […]
Continue readingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (CNS) — The archbishop of Santa Fe in a pastoral letter admonished unmarried Catholic couples who are living together, those who are not married but are in a civil union and divorced Catholics who remarry without an annulment, warning them not to receive Holy Communion. Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan said it was up […]
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