BLOOMINGTON – Central Catholic High School’s $10M Vision campaign reached and exceeded its lofty goal in less than one year. Following Central Catholic’s Saints Alive dinner auction last fall, the Catholic Post Online reported on a $1M donation for student mental health announced at the event as part of the campaign (“Central Catholic Celebrates $1M […]
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I met Tom Durkee as we were both waiting in the check-out at Lagron-Miller religious book and goods store in Peoria just before Christmas. Tom is retired, closing his career with 25 years as an RN and home hospice nurse with OSF HealthCare. Tom’s wife Sharon Flynn Durkee passed away three years ago. Sharon was […]
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Father Dominic Garramone – “The Bread Monk” prays before breaking bread with visiting members of the National Evangelization Team (NET) and Saint Bede Academy students at St. Bede Abbey’s Bethany House. (Supplied photo)
Father Dominic Garramone, OSB – aka the “Bread Monk” – has a lot cooking. He has written 11 cookbooks (not counting second editions), and served as the host of the PBS cooking show “Breaking Bread with Father Garramone” from 1999-2001. He’s also an also an award-winning children’s book author (“Brother Jerome and the Angels in […]
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A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered on Wednesday, Jan. 15, at 11 a.m. at St. Edward Church, Chillicothe for Deacon Greg Serangeli, who served as a deacon in the Diocese of Peoria for 42 years. Deacon Greg, age 87, of Peoria, passed away on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025 at Methodist Hospital in Peoria. […]
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The former Believers Together Center Chapel at Christ the King Parish in Moline will be dedicated as the renamed Fr. Duane Jack Chapel in a ceremony on Sunday, Jan. 12 at 2 p.m. Father Jack died on Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. He was 82. As noted in his obituary in the Catholic Post Online on […]
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Pope Francis speaks at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 23, 2024. An altar painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Francesco de Rhoden hangs inside the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Rome, Italy. (Daniel Ibáñez/Catholic News Agency [left panel]; CNA file photo [right panel])
ROME/ROCK ISLAND – It was only his fourth encyclical since coming to the Chair of Peter in 2013, and clearly this one was particularly close to Pope Francis’ pastoral heart. In his encyclical Dilexit Nos (“He Loved Us”), released late last fall, Francis wrote, “The world can change, beginning with the heart.” He called for a […]
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EAST PEORIA — A Mass of Christian Burial was offered Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, here for Sister Joan Tousignant, O.S.F. Sister Joan, 89, a member of The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, died on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, at the motherhouse in East Peoria. She was born on May 11, 1935, in […]
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Maggie Abrams of Peoria, single mother of six, said of the Catholic Charities Christmas gift distribution: “We feel blessed.” (The Catholic Post Online/ Paul Thomas Moore)
Catholic Charites conducted its Peoria Christmas gift distribution at Cabrini Center on Tuesday, Dec. 17. Bishop Louis Tylka helped to hand out the gifts, and prayed with staff and volunteers before the doors opened. “We are grateful for all those who are participating in this effort, so that we can reach out to those in […]
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Jordan Catholic fifth graders (from left) Hudson Kerr, Svea Hancks, and QuinEvelyn Allison shop in support of families in need at Christmas.
ROCK ISLAND – The Jordan Catholic School EarlyAct Club got an early-December jump on Christmas gift giving in support of the less fortunate in their parish communities. After a casual day for a donation towards the Angel Tree raised over $1,700, the student elves went to work. Accompanied by Mrs. Katy Saucedo, fifth grade teacher, […]
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December, 2024 Dear Friends in Christ, Merry Christmas! We once again celebrate with great joy the birth of Jesus Christ, the long-awaited Messiah. And as we do each year, we have spent the past several weeks preparing our hearts and our homes. The season of Advent beckoned us to prepare for the Lord’s coming, especially […]
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