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All Saints and All Souls Days – similarities and differences

By: The Catholic Post - October 29, 2024 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article, Uncategorized

Kyle Kazlauski, then a second grader at St. Thomas the Apostle School in Peoria Heights, is dressed as Pope St. John Paul II, flanked by an altar line of saints in this photo from the Nov. 13, 2023 issue of The Catholic Post. (Provided photo)

In part due to their proximity on the calendar, All Saints Day (Nov. 1) and All Souls Day (Nov. 2), are often spoken of in the same breath, which can muddy the distinctions between them (in much the same way as Veterans Day and Memorial Day can be conflated). The ways through which we can […]

School leaders refresh vocations as “Pilgrims of Hope” at Sacré-Coeur

By: The Catholic Post - October 28, 2024 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article, Uncategorized

Father Thomas Dunton, CSJ, asked school leaders to reflect on Pope Francis’s definition of hope as “the love springing from the pierced heart of Jesus upon the cross.” (The Catholic Post/Paul Thomas Moore)

MAGNOLIA – Diocesan school principals and administrators met at their fall retreat Oct. 23-24 at Sacré-Coeur Retreat Center to refresh their understanding of the virtue of hope, and how to inspire it in their school communities. Father Thomas Dunton, CSJ, of the Congregation of St. John in Princeville served as retreat master, and described for […]

Priests of Diocese of Peoria gather for fall Assembly Days

By: The Catholic Post - October 22, 2024 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article, Uncategorized

Bishop Louis Tylka elevates the Body of Christ during the Eucharistic prayer at a Mass for the priests of the diocese before the start of their fall Assembly Days on Oct. 22 in Peoria. (The Catholic Post/Paul Thomas Moore)

The priests of the Diocese of Peoria gather for their semi-annual Assembly Days Oct. 22-23 in Peoria. This is the first such assembly since the announcement of the new parish models by Bishop Louis Tylka at Pentecost as part of Growing Disciples pastoral planning process. RENEW THEIR WITNESS OF FAITH As one of the prayers […]

Green Mass successfully launches PDCCW Care for Creation program

By: The Catholic Post - October 21, 2024 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article, Uncategorized

Bishop Louis Tylka celebrated a Green Mass to launch the Care for Creation initiative organized by the Peoria Diocesan Council of Catholic Women (PDCCW) on Oct. 5 at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Bartonville. PDCCW Care for Creation committee members are (from left): Colleen Carlson, Susan Lawhorn, Sister Sandra Brunenn, OSB, Barbara Harzman, Mary Ann Hughes and Chris McAtee. (Dean Campbell, St. Anthony Parish)

Bartonville – The Peoria Diocese Council of Catholic Women (PDCCW) organized a Green Mass event for Oct. 5 to launch the diocese-wide Care for Creation program. Mass was celebrated by Bishop Louis Tylka at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Bartonville. He encouraged recognizing the beauty and enjoyment of God’s creation and the need to […]

Prayerful witness as Planned Parenthood Peoria resumes abortions

By: Paul Moore - October 9, 2024 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article

Jeanne Whalen, former family life director for the Diocese of Peoria, is seen witnessing at Life Chain outside the Planned Parenthood facility in Peoria. Earlier, she had contacted the facility posing as a 16-year old girl, and had been supplied with information. The Catholic Post Online/Paul Thomas Moore

Now more than ever, prayerful witness is required in support of the culture of life. That was the message that came through “peaceful and clear” across the Diocese of Peoria during the 37th annual Life Chain on Respect Life Sunday, Oct. 6. In Peoria, Life Chain participant Jeanne Whalen, former director of family life for […]

Soaring song at Spirit of Hope Mass for Cancer

By: Paul Moore - October 8, 2024 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article, Uncategorized

The fourth annual Spirit of Hope Mass and Concert for Cancer was celebrated on Saturday, Oct. 5 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria. The Spirit of Hope Mass for Cancer stemmed from a suggestion made to Bishop Louis Tylka by Dr. James McGee, founding director of the OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute, to offer a special […]

OSF Sisters elect new major superior, council

By: The Catholic Post - October 8, 2024 - Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article

On October 6, 2024 the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis elected a major superior and council (from left): Sister Rose Therese Mann, O.S.F. – also appointed to be assistant secretary; Sister Theresa Ann Brazeau, O.S.F. – also appointed to be treasurer general; Sister Agnes Joseph Williams, O.S.F. – major superior; Sister Judith Ann Duvall, O.S.F. – appointed to be assistant major superior and treasurer general; Sister Teresa Paul Selamat, O.S.F. (Provided photo)

The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis met in a General Chapter this fall which occurs every six years. On October 6, 2024 they elected a major superior and her council who comprise the governing board for the religious congregation. They also serve as the highest board holding reserve powers over OSF HealthCare […]

Care for Creation launch and Green Mass Sat., Oct. 5, Bartonville

By: The Catholic Post - October 1, 2024 - Featured Article, News Article, Uncategorized

BARTONVILLE – Barbara Harzman of the Peoria Diocesan Council of Catholic Women (PDCCW) is the coordinator of the Care for Creation program launch at St. Anthony of Padua Church on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 10 a.m. She says the initiative was inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment “Laudato Si’” (2025), and his later […]

National Eucharistic Pilgrimage Coming through Peoria!

By: The Catholic Post - September 25, 2024 - Featured Article, News Article, Uncategorized

The National Eucharistic Congress is planning to do another Eucharistic Pilgrimage in the summer of 2025. The plan is to launch from Indianapolis and then make their way across the country to conclude in Los Angeles on the feast of Corpus Christi on Sunday, June 22, 2025. The daily schedule will include Mass, followed by […]

25th and 50th Anniversary Mass: All you need is love (ok, & patience)

By: Paul Moore - September 25, 2024 - Featured Article, News Article, Uncategorized

Philip and Bernadette (Brophy) Stickelmaier, celebrating a golden anniversary in 2024, renew their wedding promises at the 25th and 50th Anniversary Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral on Sept. 22. The Stickelmaiers were the last couple married in the old St. Patrick's Church on the south side of Peoria. The Catholic Post Online/Paul Thomas Moore

In his homily at a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Sept. 22 for couples from across the Diocese of Peoria whose 25th or 50th wedding anniversaries fall in 2024, Bishop Louis Tylka spoke of a short holiday he had taken over the Labor Day weekend in Arizona. Among the old friends he visited was […]

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