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Peoria Notre Dame wins 5th soccer state title, shares joy with area schools

By: Tom Dermody - December 2, 2022 - News Article

Peoria Notre Dame soccer players and coaches pose with the IHSA Class 2A boys trophy they earned with a 3-1 win over Chatham Glenwood to cap a 23-3-1 season. The title match was played at Hoffman Estates High School on Nov. 5. (Provided photo/Cindy Dermody)

Peoria Notre Dame again proved it has one of the state’s elite high school soccer programs with a 3-1 win over Chatham Glenwood on Nov. 5 to claim the Illinois High School Association boys Class 2A title. The Irish earned their fifth boys soccer state championship by prevailing in a game played in 30 mph […]

Teens grateful for diocese’s Abide in Me retreat, chance to get closer to Jesus

By: Tom Dermody - November 16, 2022 - Featured Article

Following a talk, Abide in Me retreatants are led on a "trust walk" around the parish grounds and into St. Mary of Lourdes Church in Germantown Hills by Karen Hertzner, one of the presenters who also served as masters of ceremonies for the weekend. (Provided photo/Katie Bogner)

GERMANTOWN HILLS — Lindsey Britton encountered God’s love in a personal way at the Abide in Me diocese-wide youth retreat Nov. 5-6 hosted by St. Mary of Lourdes Parish here. But the freshman at Alleman High School in Rock Island got an unexpected bonus. “I met God, but also met myself and who God wants […]

New book from local author can help start adoption discussion with children

By: Tom Dermody - November 9, 2022 - Book Review, News Article

Lindsey and Kevin Spangler are pictured moments after being handed their 3-day-old, newly adopted daughter Naomi Louise outside a medical center in Mississippi on April 9, 2020. Lindsey is author of a new book, "We Were Always Meant to Be." (Provided photo)

“We Were Always Meant to Be,” a new children’s book by Lindsey Spangler, was written and created for a readership of one — the Spanglers’ adopted daughter, Naomi Louise, now age 2 years and 7 months. “I wanted a book for when she gets a little bit older to get the conversation started on adoption,” […]

At All Souls Day Mass, mausoleum chapel is named for St. Joseph of Arimathea

By: Tom Dermody - November 2, 2022 - Featured Article

Bishop Louis Tylka blesses the newly renovated chapel at Resurrection Mausoleum in Peoria at the start of a noon Mass on All Souls Day, Nov. 2. The bishop announced the chapel will now be named the Chapel of St. Joseph of Arimathea. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

All Souls Day is not a sad day, said Bishop Louis Tylka, because “death is not the end” and “we are a people of hope waiting for that day when we will all be united in God’s eternal kingdom.” Bishop Tylka was the principal celebrant of a Mass on Nov. 2 — the Commemoration of […]

Father Klamut puts new music to ancient texts on his latest CD project, ‘Psalms’

By: Tom Dermody - October 14, 2022 - News Article

The CD cover of "Psalms," a newly released music project by Father Charles Klamut, pastor of St. Anthony Parish in Bartonville.

Many of the words are familiar. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts . . . Create in me a clean heart, oh God . . . The Lord is my shepherd . . . But the accompanying music is fresh, composed and arranged by Father Charles Klamut and now being shared […]

Eucharist is focus as Diocesan Council of Catholic Women convenes in Princeton

By: Tom Dermody - October 13, 2022 - Featured Article

Installed as officers of the Peoria Diocesan Council of Catholic Women by Msgr. Dale Wellman during the group's biennial convention on Oct. 8 are, continuing from left, Melissa Appell of St. Jude Parish, Peoria, treasurer; April Adams of St. Mary Parish, Metamora, vice president; Mary Ann Hughes of St. Mary Parish, Westville, president; and Barbara Harzman of St. Paul Parish, Macomb, secretary. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

PRINCETON — The National Eucharistic Revival is challenging Catholics first to deepen their own relationship with and reverence for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and then model and share that core belief of our faith with others. That was among the messages heard by members of the Peoria Diocesan Council of Catholic Women as they […]

Prayerful farewell offered for Immaculate Conception, Spring Valley

By: Tom Dermody - October 12, 2022 - News Article

Father Scott Potthoff, pastor of The Nativity of Our Lord Parish in Spring Valley, leads a prayer service outside the former Immaculate Conception Church on Oct. 1. The 105-year-old church has been closed since 2019 and the service helped former Immaculate Conception parishioners say goodbye as the church will either be sold or razed. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

SPRING VALLEY — Beneath mature sycamore trees near the church entrance, about 20 Catholics with their own deep roots at Immaculate Conception Church gathered to pray a farewell to the edifice that has been a symbol of faith in downtown Spring Valley for more than a century. “We give gratitude for the many blessings God […]

Three modern, “heroic” women serve as role models, guides in troubled times

By: Tom Dermody - October 7, 2022 - Uncategorized

Morgan Matson began her talk at Christ the King Church by suggesting three modern, “heroic” women as role models who can serve as guides “especially with what is going on in the news lately about women and their choices.” The women are: St. Gianna Beretta Molla, a physician who knew her diagnosis of a large […]

Baby Rose’s short life long on love, lessons for mother — and many others

By: Tom Dermody - October 7, 2022 - Featured Article

Deacon Mark Jackson prays with Morgan Matson before her presentation at Christ the King Church in Moline. Matson shared the story of her first pregnancy with daughter Rose, who died shortly after birth. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

MOLINE — Medical records say Baby Rose lived for two hours and 24 minutes on April 10, 2015. But the 2.3-pound, 8-inch-long bundle of love left an eternal imprint on her mother’s life and continues to help others grow in faith and wisdom. “I needed this little girl to guide me back to the Lord, […]

St. Louis Parish in Princeton fills, opens the “Magi Baby Chest” for families in need

By: Tom Dermody - September 29, 2022 - News Article

Msgr. James Kruse, pastor of St. Louis Parish in Princeton, is pictured with Jessica Murphy, director of the parish’s new Magi Baby Chest, and just some of the baby and toddler supplies already donated or purchased for the outreach located in the St. Louis Catechetical Center. It will open for the first time on the morning of Oct. 1, the start of Respect Life Month, and continue on the first Saturday of every month. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

PRINCETON — Christmas and Epiphany are months away, but members of St. Louis Parish are imitating the generosity of the three kings by supporting a new, parish-based baby/toddler supply center called the Magi Baby Chest. The pro-life social outreach, located in a remodeled room of the St. Louis Catechetical Center, will open to families in […]

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