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Among the 5,000 high school students who attended the Steubenville STL Mid-America Conference at Missouri State University July 7-9 were young people from the Diocese of Peoria, including St. Thomas the Apostle in Peoria Heights, St. Mark in Peoria, Blessed Sacrament in Morton, St. Matthew and The High School of Saint Thomas More in Champaign, St. Patrick Church of Merna in Bloomington, and Marquette Academy in Ottawa. (Provided photo)

Volunteer Sarah Hogan, principal of St. Vincent de Paul School in Peoria, conducts a guided tour of St. Mary’s Cathedral. She touched on Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s ordination there, and the time he dropped a wine cruet on the marble floor, causing it to shatter, while serving Mass for Bishop John Lancaster Spalding. The bishop predicted that one day young Fulton would study at Louvain University in Belgium, as he had, and be “just as I am” -- a bishop. (The Catholic Post/Paul Thomas Moore)

Children of the Danville Vicariate say good morning to heaven as part of the Totus Tuus morning “pump up” at Schlarman Academy on June 21. (The Catholic Post/Paul Thomas Moore)

Elaine Riddick, involuntarily sterilized through a eugenics program in North Carolina in 1968, chats with Sister Mary Faustina Chesnut, OSF, at the Life and Freedom Rally sponsored by Central Illinois Right to Life on June 24 at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria. (The Catholic Post/Paul Thomas Moore)

The Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception, also known as the Heading Avenue Franciscans, wave to their neighbors in West Peoria who lined the city's streets for the 51st annual Fourth of July Parade. The banners on their trailer reminded people that they seek to be "a caring, praying presence" in the community. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)

Bishop Louis Tylka presides at a Holy Hour at St. Patrick Church of Merna in Bloomington on June 11. The first-ever Corpus Christi procession for Bloomington/Lincoln Vicariate could not take place as planned due to the weather, but the bishop said that just gave people an opportunity to carry Jesus in their hearts. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)

Ana Rodas, assistant director of the Office of Divine Worship, and Father Luke Spannagel, a priest of the Diocese of Peoria who is serving as a preacher for the National Eucharistic Revival, share their thoughts about what the Eucharist means in their lives of faith as part of the fourth video in a series based on the Five Foundations of Growing Disciples. (Screenshot/Fiat Films)

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Following the Mass of Ordination on May 27 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria, Bishop Louis Tylka and the Diocese of Peoria’s four new priests gathered on the balcony of the Bishop’s Residence. They are (from left) Father Daniel Dionesotes, Father Ignacio Cárdenas Morán, Father Patrick Wille and Father Nathan Hopper. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)