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Couples enjoy evening of love, blessings, renewal and music at Marriage Mass

By: Tom Dermody - February 18, 2020 - Featured Article Eric Genuis, Marriage, wedding vows

Couples from throughout the Diocese of Peoria renew their wedding vows during the Marriage Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria on Feb. 15. Among them were Jason and Kelly Weber of the Heart of Peoria Catholic Community (right) and Ed and Cathy Lee of Immaculate Conception Parish, Monmouth. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

Love was in the air at St. Mary’s Cathedral the evening after Valentine’s Day as couples from throughout the Diocese of Peoria renewed their wedding vows at the annual Marriage Mass. “As married couples, you are not only a blessing to one another, but your love and fidelity are blessings to the entire Body of […]

Question the vote, but Mitt Romney’s faith, sincerity should be above attack

By: Tom Dermody - February 13, 2020 - Editorial

History will judge the vote of Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) to convict a president of his own party during the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. We are sure our readers, like the nation, are sharply divided on his decision. But unless one considers Sen. Romney an actor deserving of an Academy Award, his confession to […]

Jesus calls us beyond being ‘morally good people’ into the inner life of the Trinity

By: Tom Dermody - February 13, 2020 - Living the Word

Father Timothy Hepner

By Father Timothy Hepner Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Feb. 16 Sirach 15:15-20; Psalm 119:1-2,4-5,17-18,33-34; 1 Corinthians 2:6-10; Matthew 5:17-37 The summer after my sophomore year of college seminary I went to Mexico for an intensive language program. One weekend all of the students in my cohort went to Acapulco, while I visited an orphanage. I learned […]

Support St. Bede chaplain, 70, and students as they ‘polar plunge’ for Special Olympics

By: Tom Dermody - February 12, 2020 - News Article Father Ronald Margherio, Mendota, OSB, polar plunge, St. Bede Academy

Father Ronald Margherio, OSB, chaplain of St. Bede Academy in Peru, leaps with students into the chilly Illinois River during a polar plunge last year. Father Ronald, who just turned 70, will take the plunge again -- joined by 40 St. Bede students -- on Feb. 29 in Mendota to raise money for Special Olympics. (Provided photo)

PERU — What better way for a priest to celebrate turning 70 than by running fully clothed into a lake of frigid water on the last day of February? “It should be fun,” said Father Ronald Margherio, OSB, chaplain of St. Bede Academy in Peru, in anticipating a Leap Day plunge into Lake Mendota on […]

Sale of spaghetti sauce with local recipe benefits shrine to war veterans in LaSalle

By: Tom Dermody - February 12, 2020 - Featured Article Bob Lipka, Father Paul Carlson, Holy Rosary shrine, Hy-Vee, LaSalle, Msgr. Simon Bernardi, Pam Lipka, spaghetti sauce

Father Paul Carlson and Bob Lipka hold jars of Dalla Campanella, a newly marketed three-meat spaghetti sauce made from a traditional recipe from northern Italy perfected by the late Msgr. Simon Bernardi. Profits from its sales help maintain the Queen of the Holy Rosary diocesan shrine to war veterans in LaSalle, seen in the background. Lipka, his wife Pam, and Father Carlson -- pastor of the LaSalle Catholic parishes and rector of the shrine -- collaborated to bring the sauce to market. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

LASALLE — Before Lent begins, here’s a story with some meat to it. Tomato sauce, assorted vegetables, and spices, too. The LaSalle Catholic parishes have brought to market a three-meat spaghetti sauce, the sales of which help financially support the Queen of the Holy Rosary diocesan shrine to war veterans. More than 1,500 jars of […]

From Kobe Bryant to outdoor weddings, Bishop Jenky answers students’ questions

By: Tom Dermody - February 4, 2020 - Featured Article answers, Bishop Jenky, Bishop's Leadership Committee, Father Corey Krengiel, Peoria Notre Dame, questions

Bishop Jenky answers questions from junior leaders at Peoria Notre Dame during his Catholic Schools Week visit to the high school on Jan. 31. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

“Could Kobe Bryant become a saint?” “If God loves us so much, why would he punish us to eternity in hell?” “What is something that you wish you could tell all the young people of the church?” Those were just three of the nearly 20 questions that junior class leaders at Peoria Notre Dame High […]

March for Life high school pilgrims from diocese tell of ‘life changing’ experience

By: Tom Dermody - January 30, 2020 - Featured Article Central Catholic, high school, March for Life, Marquette Academy, Peoria Notre Dame, Pro-life, Schlarman Academy, The High School of Saint Thomas More

The center spread of the Feb. 2 issue of The Catholic Post included photos and brief comments from diocesan Catholic high school pilgrims to the Jan. 24 March for Life in Washington, D.C. Some of the young pro-life pilgrims share their experience in greater detail below.

By plane, metro trains, buses, and some very crowded automobiles, hundreds of pilgrims from the Diocese of Peoria traveled to Washington, D.C., to take part in the Jan. 24 March for Life and related events. Among them were contingents from five Catholic high schools in the diocese — Peoria Notre Dame, Central Catholic in Bloomington, […]

Rebekah Hagan tells of finding ‘a way out’ after she took the first abortion pill

By: Tom Dermody - January 29, 2020 - News Article abortion pill, Rebeka Hagan, reversal, Sanctity of Human Life Rally, Walk for Life

Rebekah Hagan addresses the Sanctity of Human Life Rally on Jan. 21 in Peoria. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

Like a driver whose car begins to slide uncontrollably on a freeway that has turned foggy and icy, Rebekah Hagan — then a frightened, pregnant, single, teenaged mother of one — looked for and took the closest “exit ramp.” It led to an abortion clinic. “In a moment of panic and not thinking clearly, I […]

Our polarized society and the mission of The Catholic Post to unite

By: Tom Dermody - January 29, 2020 - Editorial

In this polarizing election year, in these weeks of a presidential impeachment trial being conducted along strict party lines, in these days when our social media feeds and even family dinner talk can turn divisive over a host of topics, we at The Catholic Post open our annual subscription drive called “Delivering Unity.” Our mission […]

Honor this Wapella mother of 19 with your pro-life presence this month

By: Tom Dermody - January 16, 2020 - Editorial

Rozanne Karr of St. Patrick Parish in Wapella, a mother of 19, is pictured in a photo shared by her brother John on a tribute page following her death on Jan. 6 at the age of 96.

There are many somber reasons to take part in this month’s activities marking the anniversary of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortion. Primary among them are honoring the tens of millions of unborn children whose lives ended violently before birth, and praying for the conversion of the hearts of those now considering abortion […]

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