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Msgr. Pricco granted senior status; has guided Macomb parish nearly 40 years

By: Tom Dermody - December 15, 2016 - Featured Article Macomb, Msgr. Richard Pricco, senior status

Msgr. Richard Pricco, pastor of St. Paul Parish in Macomb since 1977, is pictured with a tabernacle in the parish rectory. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

MACOMB — When Msgr. Richard Pricco came to Macomb in 1977 he reassured members of St. Paul Parish, who had seen a rare revolving door of priests that year, that “I’m going to be here for five years.” Nearly 40 years later, still guiding St. Paul’s and approaching his 80th birthday and 55th anniversary of […]

St. Mary, Kickapoo, ‘the place for me,’ says one of diocese’s ‘Distinguished Teachers’

By: Jennifer Willems - December 14, 2016 - Featured Article Catholic schools, Distinguished Teacher, Kickapoo, Sally Martin

Sally Martin enjoys the playfulness of "my 10 little men" at St. Mary School in Kickapoo. "They're my energy," she said. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)

KICKAPOO — Walking into a classroom of 52 third-graders might seem like a daunting task, but for Sally Martin it was a defining moment in a career that has spanned five decades. Another came this month when Martin, who teaches a combined class of third- and fourth-graders at St. Mary School, was named one of […]

With help of Rock Island parish, Alleman students, peace finds the Kabunze Family

By: Jennifer Willems - December 14, 2016 - Featured Article Alleman High School, Christmas, Congo, Kabunze, peace, Rock Island, St. Pius X

The Kabunze Family gathers in front of the fireplace of their Rock Island rental home, where stockings for each of them hang on the mantle. They are (from left), Enock, Annuarite, Maombi (mother), Solange, Filipo, Kasaika (father), Sarah, Grace, Riziki and Alfa. (Provided photo)

ROCK ISLAND — It isn’t uncommon to pray for peace on earth during the Christmas Season, but few people appreciate that gift in the way Kasaika and Maombi Kabunze do. The couple, who escaped from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2005 with two small children, have spent the last 11 years in a […]

Peoria native who has served in Mexico for 66 years renews vows as relatives visit

By: Tom Dermody - December 14, 2016 - Featured Article Atchison, Benedictines, Giacabazi, Guadalupe, Mexico, Sister Mechtild, Swearingen

Led by her grandnephew Father Vincent Giiacabazi, SJ, Sister Mechtild Swearingen, OSB, left, renews the vows of her religious profession at Pan de Vida Monastery in Torreon, Mexico. (Provided photo)

Our Lady of Guadalupe is a thread running throughout Peoria native Sister Mechtild Swearingen’s remarkable 66 years of ministry in Mexico. The 1941 graduate of the Academy of Our Lady in Peoria, born Nora Jean Swearingen, was praying to Our Lady of Guadalupe when — in 1950 as a young member of the Benedictine Sisters […]

Hopes for Sheen transfer still high despite granting of emergency stay

By: Tom Dermody - November 30, 2016 - Featured Article Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Archdiocese of New York, beatification, body, canonization, Diocese of Peoria, sainthood, Sheen

The transfer of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's remains is seen as a key factor in allowing the sainthood cause to move forward.

Hopes buoyed in the Diocese of Peoria by a Nov. 17 court ruling allowing the family of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen to transfer the sainthood candidate’s remains from New York to Peoria have been tempered by the subsequent granting of an emergency stay to the Archdiocese of New York, which plans to appeal the […]

Urbana parish hosts Vatican astronomer via Skype seeking answers to big questions

By: Jennifer Willems - November 30, 2016 - Featured Article astronomy, Brother Guy Consolmagno, St. Patrick Parish, Urbana, Vatican

Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory in Rome, addresses a crowd via Skype at Trinity Hall of St. Patrick Parish in Urbana on Nov. 20. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)

URBANA — Being on two different continents didn’t seem to matter much when St. Patrick Parish here hosted a “visit” from Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory in Rome, on Nov. 20. With the help of Skype, the seven-hour time difference melted away, making it possible for parishioners and their guests to […]

Father Harold Datzman, OSB, granted senior status; will return to St. Bede

By: Jennifer Willems - November 30, 2016 - Featured Article Benedictines, Father Harold Datzman, senior status, St. Bede Abbey, St. Joseph Peru

Father Harold Datzman, OSB, is in St. Joseph Church in Peru, which he has refurbished with the help of parishioners. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)

PERU — Expressing his gratitude for years of “generous service to the Diocese of Peoria,” Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, has granted senior status to Father Harold Datzman, OSB, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Peru. Father Harold, 78, will return to St. Bede Abbey and be succeeded by Father Jacob Rose, who has been […]

Canton church damaged by deadly natural gas explosion; Masses relocated

By: Tom Dermody - November 22, 2016 - Featured Article Canton, explosion, Father Daniel Ebker, St. Mary Church

Communion is distributed during the 8 a.m. Mass in the St. Mary Parish Center in Canton on Sunday, Nov. 20. Masses will take place in the center while repairs are made to St. Mary Church, which suffered damage from the Nov. 16 natural gas explosion that did widespread damage in downtown Canton. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)

CANTON — The deadly natural gas explosion that rocked the downtown square of this Fulton County community on Nov. 16 has also temporarily knocked the faith community of St. Mary Parish out of their damaged church, located just a block east of the blast site. “The good thing is we have somewhere to be,” said […]

Jubilee Year of Mercy concludes with closing of Holy Doors around diocese

By: Jennifer Willems - November 21, 2016 - Featured Article cathedral, closing, holy doors, Year of Mercy

Msgr. Stanley Deptula, rector of St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria, uses a gavel to knock three times on the Holy Door there, ritually sealing it "until the next Jubilee." With this action, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, brought the Jubilee Year of Mercy to an end in the Diocese of Peoria. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)

Commanding the rector of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Msgr. Stanley Deptula, to seal the Holy Door there, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, brought to a close the Jubilee Year of Mercy in the Diocese of Peoria. Walking to the main interior door of the cathedral, Msgr. Deptula used a gavel to knock on it three […]

Teaching truth is an expression of love, mercy writes Bishop Jenky in “Choice”

By: Tom Dermody - November 18, 2016 - Featured Article Bishop Daniel Jenky, Choices, Festival Letter, Year of Mercy

The “greatest possible expression of Christian mercy” the Catholic Church can offer a contemporary culture that celebrates unrestrained personal choice is to “boldly preach the truth, in season and out of season,” according to Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC. “The first and greatest truth to which we must always give persistent witness is that Jesus […]

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