As Advent leads to Christmas, Nativity scenes will be lovingly assembled in our churches, homes, and neighborhoods. Some will be fine artistic pieces, others the simple creation of a child. But in this year, in this diocese, the Nativity scene with the greatest emotional and spiritual impact may be battered plastic figures salvaged from the […]
Continue readingOne day in the love of Christ we’ll meet once again.We’ll laugh as we celebrate a life with no end,Where death has been overcome by our Risen Lord. And there are no more goodbyes. No more tears. No more loneliness and no more fear.Our pain turns to joy. Darkness to light.In God’s heaven there are […]
Continue readingPresident Obama has been using language familiar to the pro-life movement in rallying support for holding the Syrian government accountable for the use of chemical weapons against its own people. In a statement made in the White House Rose Garden on Aug. 31, the president rightfully called the attack, in which more than 1,000 people […]
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Did you see this photo of Pope Francis recently posing with young people? A few of the teens near the pope are holding out camera phones at arm’s length, pointed back at their smiling faces. In contemporary speak, the youth are taking a “selfie,” a photographic style that is popular on social networks and photo […]
Continue readingAt some level, were you just a bit disappointed to learn that the “mystery priest” had come forward in that much-talked-about auto accident and rescue case involving a young Quincy woman last week? We Catholics love and embrace mysteries of the deepest kind. On Thursday, when most receive this newspaper, we will be celebrating the […]
Continue readingEDITOR’S NOTE: The Catholic Post’s regular editorial was held for this issue in order to print two statements released following the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on June 26 relating to same-sex marriage. Those statements follow: FROM THE CATHOLIC CONFERENCE OF ILLINOIS The Catholic Conference of Illinois regrets the U.S. Supreme Court’s wrong decision to invalidate […]
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Photo Caption: The Malamphy sisters — foreground from left, Margaret, Dorothy, and Alice — are pictured with fellow St. Patrick, Camp Grove, parishioner Chris Sullivan at the church after a recent Mass. Few pews in the Diocese of Peoria hold more parish memories than the front right bench at St. Patrick Church in Camp Grove. […]
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Photo Caption: In a nine-hour transplant operation April 9, Hannah Warren received a tissue-engineered, bioartificial trachea created by seeding a plastic “scaffold” with her own stem cells drawn from bone marrow. The medical and scientific advancements celebrated with last month’s landmark transplant surgery performed at Children’s Hospital of Illinois in Peoria (see story here) made […]
Continue readingThe names and images of Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev are now familiar, etched into U.S. history by the deadly shrapnel from the bombs they are suspected of placing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15 and the around-the-clock media coverage of their pursuit by authorities. The coverage is now shifting to […]
Continue readingPope Francis has quickly endeared himself to Catholics and non-Catholics around the world. How many times since his election have we heard friends — in person or through social media — express their love and admiration for our new pope and how he is teaching, through both plain-spoken word and humble example, about Christ’s love […]
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