Photo Caption: Bishop Daniel R. Jenky speaks at a rally for religious freedom in Peoria earlier this year. In a letter released Oct. 18, the bishop calls on all practicing Catholics to vote in the coming elections. Citing unprecedented threats to religious liberty and with strong words of warning to Catholic politicians and their electoral […]
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Photo Caption: Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, blesses the 71.5-acre site for a new Peoria Notre Dame High School during groundbreaking ceremonies on Sept. 28. The first phase will be a unified athletic complex. By: By Tom Dermody With prayers, gratitude, and several chants of “Go Irish!,” a field of Catholic high school dreams was […]
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Photo Caption: Mother Vaclava Ballon and Sister Marion Hudackova of the Franciscan Sisters of John the Baptist hold commemorative programs at the Sept. 9 Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria. By: By Tom Dermody Calling Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen “the model of virtue our world needs today,” friends and family of the […]
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Photo Caption: Sister Theresa Lee, FMA, lends a hand and a smile as students move into Newman Hall ib Aug. 18 at St. John’s Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois. By: By Jennifer Willems CHAMPAIGN — Joy. It is a gift of Salesian spirituality and one that the Salesian Sisters of St. John […]
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Photo Caption: Catholic school principals from around the Diocese of Peoria met in Peoria Aug. 14 to kick off the new academic year with a Mass celebrated by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC. By: By Jennifer Willems As they prepared to start another academic year, administrators from schools around the Diocese of Peoria took some […]
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Photo Caption: Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, gives the homily during a Mass at the first Diocesan Coaches Retreat Aug. 5 at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria. Nearly 120 coaches and athletic directors attended. By: By Tom Dermody A former Major League Baseball player, an Olympic skier, two Catholic priests and a bishop were […]
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Photo Caption: Bishop Jenky and Deacon Bob Sondag pray during a religious freedom rally in Peoria in March. On Aug. 9, the Diocese of Peoria filed suit against the Obama administration over the HHS mandate. The Diocese of Peoria issued the following press release on Thursday afternoon, Aug. 9: —– The Catholic Diocese of Peoria, […]
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Photo Caption: Dwight Correctional Center is scheduled to be closed on Aug. 31. A town hall meeting took place July 16 in the parish hall of St. Patrick’s Church. By: By Jennifer Willems DWIGHT — What doesn’t show up on balance sheets in Springfield filled the parish hall at St. Patrick’s Church here last Monday […]
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Photo Caption: Pope Benedict XVI has approved the heroic virtues of Diocese of Peoria native Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, declaring him “venerable” and clearing the way for the advancement of his sainthood cause. By: By Tom Dermody News that Pope Benedict XVI approved the heroic virtues of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen and that the pioneering […]
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Photo Caption: With a portrait of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in the foreground, Bonnie Engstrom of Goodfield gives a reading at a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria last December. By: By Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI has approved the heroic virtues of U.S. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, clearing […]
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