Archives
By: The Catholic Post - March 17, 2025 -
Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article
Bishop Louis Tylka (second from left), and diocesan staff, family and friends pose in front of the Diocese of Peoria’s St. Patrick’s Day parade float on March 17, 2025.
In his homily at the St. Patrick’s Day Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria on March 17, Bishop Louis Tylka zeroed in on why the saint is still so relevant to Christians today. FROM SLAVE TO SAINT Bishop Tylka traced the arc of Patrick’s life – from enslavement in Ireland as a youth, to […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - March 14, 2025 -
Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article
The Mouro family of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Peoria Heights pose in front of the tomb of the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen after the Rite of Election at St. Mary’s Cathedral on March 8. (Left to right): Truman (13), Katria (20), Cameron, Laura, Levi (in front of Laura, 8) Haven (17), Pearl (10) Semaiah (15), and Amalea (12). (supplied photo)
During the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion which took place in separate weekend sessions on March 8 and 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria, 377 catechumens and candidates gathered to be called by name by Bishop Louis Tylka. When he came to the contingent from St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - March 12, 2025 -
Featured Article, Living the Word, Local News Brief
March 12, 2025 Dear Monsignors and Fathers, Our Lenten journey is marked with prayer, fasting and almsgiving, and I am writing to you to ask that you consider offering your prayers and fasting to help us stop the effort to legalize assisted suicide in Illinois. There are two identical pieces of legislation that would legalize […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - March 11, 2025 -
Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article
They say if you want something done right, do it for yourself. A faith teacher for sixth through eighth graders at St Philomena Catholic School in Peoria, Katie Bogner has taken this advice to heart. Bogner has now written five books: “Through the Year with Jesus;” “Through the Year with Mary;” “We Have a Pope;” […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - March 10, 2025 -
Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article
Bishop Louis Tylka stands with new candidates for the permanent diaconate at St. Mary’s Cathedral on March 1. Front row, from left: Michael Rodman, Jose Gutierrez, Michael Boyer, Bishop Tylka, Christopher Pickens, and Mark Landsly. Back row: Andrew Olson, Julian Lopez-Espinoza, Msgr. Philip Halfacre (vicar general), Msgr. Timothy Nolan (episcopal vicar for the permanent diaconate), Michael Eppley, Gregory Massey, and Peter Smudde. (Theresa Lindley/Diocese of Peoria)
The permanent deacons of the Diocese of Peoria gathered for their annual Deacon Convocation March 1 in Peoria. At the Mass which started the day at St. Mary’s Cathedral, ten men were received as candidates for the permanent diaconate for the Diocese of Peoria. They are: Michael Boyer of St. Patrick, Washington; Michael Eppley of […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - March 7, 2025 -
Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article
Friday fasting is leavened by the fish suppers that pop up all over the Diocese of Peoria. The following list has been put together thanks to parishes, and to the Peoria Journal Star, who compiled a list in their March 2 edition from which several of these entries have been drawn. If a parish organization […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - March 4, 2025 -
Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered on Saturday, March 8, at 11 a.m. at St. Jude Catholic Church, Peoria, for Deacon Roger Hunter, who served in ministries such as pontifical deacon, Boy Scout chaplain, RCIA and Cursillo. Deacon Hunter, 78, of Peoria, passed away on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at OSF St. Francis […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - March 3, 2025 -
Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article
Holy Family School (Oglesby – seen here), Trinity Catholic Academy (La Salle), and Peru Catholic School are coming together in the fall of 2025 as a unified school named The Academy of Carlo Acutis.
LA SALLE – On Feb 20 at St. Patrick Church in La Salle, Holy Family School (Oglesby), Trinity Catholic Academy (La Salle), and Peru Catholic School gathered together for Mass with Bishop Louis Tylka to reveal the name of their new unified school. Names had been proposed by the students, and the final choice came […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - February 27, 2025 -
Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article
Isn’t it just like Catholics to have an article about fasting and fish fries in the same place? Yes, it is. Lent is on the way, and with it the gifts and expectations of Catholic Christianity come into even clearer focus than ever. LENTEN DATELINE, 2025 Fat Tuesday: March 4 (this day on the eve […]
Continue reading
By: The Catholic Post - February 26, 2025 -
Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article
St. Jude eighth grader Eamon Lynch runs through a group of supporters prior to the beginning of the Class 8-1A final Thursday, Feb. 20. St. Jude defeated West Lincoln Broadwell from Lincoln to win the state championship. (Daryl Wilson/St. Jude)
The St. Jude Catholic School eighth grade boys basketball team are state champions for the first time in the school’s history. They won the title in convincing fashion at the Illinois Elementary School Association (IESA) Class 8-1A finals Thursday, Feb. 20 at Warrensburg-Latham High School in Warrensburg. St. Jude prevailed over the squad from West […]
Continue reading
