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‘Why are you pro-life?’: Speaker challenges 200 at Peoria rally

By: Tom Dermody - January 20, 2016 - Featured Article abortion, Hoye, Peoria, Pro-life, Sanctity

Participants in the Walk for Life take part in a prayer march around the Federal Courthouse in downtown Peoria on Jan. 19. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

“Why are you pro-life?” Keynote speaker Rev. Walter B. Hoye II emphasized the “you” repeatedly in a challenge to nearly 200 at the annual Sanctity of Human Life Rally in Peoria on Jan. 19. “Ask yourself, inside your heart. Be honest. Why are you?” asked Hoye, founder and president of the Issues4Life Foundation and a […]

Mass, holy hour with Bishop Jenky among prayerful pro-life events planned

By: The Catholic Post - January 14, 2016 - Featured Article, News Article Peoria, Pro-life, Roe, Wade

The Diocese of Peoria is sponsoring a pilgrimage to March for Life Chicago (shown in a 2015 file photo) on Sunday, Jan. 17. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)

Activities during the coming week — including the March for Life in Chicago, the National March for Life in Washington, D.C. and a Mass in Peoria celebrated by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC — will keep people around central Illinois busy as they observe the 43rd anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. The Supreme Court decision, […]

New OSF Center for Health-Streator dedicated

By: Tom Dermody - January 12, 2016 - Featured Article, News Article

The former HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital in Streator is now known as the OSF Center for Health-Streator. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

STREATOR — With gladness, pledges for the future and acknowledgement of community concerns, OSF Healthcare System on Jan. 4 assumed ownership of the former St. Mary’s Hospital site previously operated by Hospital Sisters Health System. The facility at 111 Spring St. is now known as the OSF Center for Health-Streator. An open house is planned […]

New seminarian invites prayers as he deploys to Afghanistan

By: Jennifer Willems - January 7, 2016 - Featured Article, News Article Ayers, deployed, John, Monmouth, Seminarian

New seminarian serving in U.S. Army deploys to Afghanistan

Deployment to the Middle East isn’t one of the usual steps for priestly formation in the Diocese of Peoria, but that seems to be the path on which God has set Monmouth native John Ayers. He wouldn’t have it any other way. “I’m not only going to Afghanistan to be a good soldier, but I’m […]

St. Patrick Church, Urbana, is rededicated after expansion

By: Jennifer Willems - December 16, 2015 - Featured Article, News Article

Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, celebrates the rededication Mass on Dec. 9 in the new sanctuary of the expanded and remodeled St. Patrick Church in Urbana.

URBANA — During a celebration that literally could not be contained to the worship space, the newly expanded and renovated St. Patrick Church was rededicated by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, during a festive liturgy on Dec. 9. The result of more than a decade of dreaming, planning and fundraising that began with the parish’s […]

Bishop Jenky’s Festival Letter on “Divine Mercy” outlines Holy Year

By: Tom Dermody - December 2, 2015 - Featured Article

Photo Caption: Holy Door sites, clockwise from left, St. Mary Cathedral, Peoria; St. John Paul II Newman Center, Normal; Holy Rosary, LaSalle; Sacred Heart, Peoria; St. John, Champaign, and St. Pius X, Rock Island. By: By Tom Dermody The Diocese of Peoria’s plans to observe the Holy Year of Mercy include the designation of six […]

Diocesan Youth Rally helps 300 get early start on Year of Mercy

By: Tom Dermody - November 18, 2015 - Featured Article

Photo Caption: Father Eric Bolek, parochial vicar at St. Jude Parish, Peoria, shares his vocation story with teens who gathered at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria on Nov. 14 for Youth Rally 2015. By: By Tom Dermody Three hundred high school-age youths in the Diocese of Peoria not only stepped into the Year of […]

School enrollment in diocese up as 11,102 ‘choose everything’

By: Tom Dermody - November 4, 2015 - Featured Article

Photo Caption: Members of the fourth grade class at Holy Cross School in Champaign dressed as saints for an-school Mass on Oct. 27 in anticipation of the church’s celebration of All Saints. By: By Tom Dermody Catholic schools of the Diocese of Peoria are celebrating the first overall enrollment increase in a decade. The announcement […]

Clare House closing, soup kitchen to continue in Bloomington

By: Jennifer Willems - October 21, 2015 - Featured Article

Photo Caption: In this file photo from 2011, more than 200 people line up outside of Clare House for food distribution the day before Thanksgiving. By: By Jennifer Willems BLOOMINGTON — It is often said that when God closes a door he opens a window, and that has proven to be true at Clare House […]

Goosebumps and blessings: Area pilgrims home after seeing pope

By: Tom Dermody - October 8, 2015 - Featured Article

Photo Caption: Hundreds of pilgrims from the Diocese of Peoria were among the throngs that greeted Pope Francis during his Sept. 22-27 visit to Washington, D.C., New York City, and Philadelphia. By: By Tom Dermody The hundreds of pilgrims from the Diocese of Peoria who traveled in late September to see Pope Francis in the […]

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