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By: The Catholic Post - August 6, 2009 -
World/National News
NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) — Nairobi Cardinal John Njue has lifted a suspension he had imposed on the activities of the Catholic charismatic renewal movement in his archdiocese. The cardinal made the announcement July 31 after a special meeting with the members of the movement at Nairobi’s Holy Family Basilica. Cardinal Njue, who suspended the movement’s […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 6, 2009 -
World/National News
BOSTON (CNS) — New billboards featuring the Eucharist displayed in a monstrance aim to get the word out about the return of perpetual adoration to Boston after a 40-year absence. The two giant signboards tower over the streets in two Boston communities, Brighton and East Boston. The words under the image read “The Son’s rays […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 6, 2009 -
Movie Review
Rating: O (R) NEW YORK (CNS) — The following is a capsule review of a movie recently reviewed by the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Gruesome horror tale in which a handyman (Josh Stewart) breaks into his employer’s (Michael Reilly Burke) isolated country home, believing it to be […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 31, 2009 -
News Article
Today’s generation of young Catholics is a bountiful harvest of souls that Christ has prepared for the church — all that is needed are laborers filled with faith and joy to bring in the harvest. About 120 adult leaders of Teens Encounter Christ came from across the United States and internationally to the Diocese of […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 31, 2009 -
News Article
In the weeks before schools re-open, state and diocesan Catholic officials are asking parents and all supporters of Catholic education to do an important homework assignment: write to Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn. The message they want sent is a request that the governor use discretionary funding or other avenues to restore “draconinan” budget cuts made […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 31, 2009 -
News Article
CHAMPAIGN — A funeral Mass was to be celebrated at 11 a.m. Friday, July 31, at St. Patrick’s Church in Urbana for Father J. Eugene Kane, a senior priest of the diocese and former pastor of parishes in Peoria, Rock Island, Elkhart and El Paso. Father Kane, who also served at Marquette High School in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 31, 2009 -
Living the Word
By: By Father Dominic Garramone, OSB Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Aug. 2 Exodus 16:2-4,12-15; Psalm 78:3-4,23-24,25,54; Ephesians 4:17,20-24; John 6:24-35 The Gospel of Mark, which is used in liturgical Year B, is too short to fill all 34 Sundays of Ordinary Time, so we switch to the Bread of Life Discourse from Chapter 6 […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 31, 2009 -
News Article
More than 350 people got a “tuneup on the Holy Spirit” at the Diocese of Peoria’s 23rd annual Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference last weekend in Peoria. The image of traveling through life accompanied by Jesus and fueled by the Holy Spirit was driven home by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, and other speakers exploring the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 31, 2009 -
News Article
HENNEPIN — To seek help for the 200 steel workers who have been laid off from the ArcelorMittal Hennepin facility in recent months, church and community leaders went right to the top — and it wasn’t the CEO of the multinational corporation. “Our purpose here today is to ask for the divine assistance upon all […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 31, 2009 -
Editorial
Whatever one thinks of the way Jillian Peterson and Kevin Heinz choreographed their wedding party’s recent trip down the aisle of a church in Minnesota, all can agree it was creative and joyful. For those who haven’t seen the week’s most popular YouTube video or excerpts of it on the national news, the ushers, bridesmaids, […]
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