Rehearsals have started, but it isn’t too late to join the St. Anthony Camerata Chorale and St. Mary’s Cathedral Schola for a choir pilgrimage to “Majestic Italy” at the end of the year, according to Mary Ann Fahey-Darling. “We can take people until mid-August,” said Fahey-Darling, director of the chorale, which is based at St. […]
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Photo Caption: Dr. Jillian Stalling will be the featured speaker at evenings in Bloomington (July 23) and Peoria (July 30) on “Unlock the Mystery: Natural Option for Family Planning and Gynecological Health.” By: By Tom Dermody Dr. Jillian Stalling tries to keep in mind how the Divine Physician would approach a person as she treats […]
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By: By Tom Dermody Faithful Catholics should respond to persons with same-sex attraction with love and responsibility, not labels, and to those who advocate same-sex marriage with questions and truth, a priest told Catholic young adults at a crowded Theology on Tap session in Peoria on July 1. “There can be no compassion — and […]
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Photo Caption: St. Mary’s Hospital, located at 111 Spring St. in Streator, was founded by three Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Springfield in 1887. STREATOR — Citing a desire to make certain high quality health care services will continue to be available in this LaSalle County community, Hospital Sisters Health […]
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Photo Caption: The medical center’s Cancer Center will be renamed in honor of Bobette Steely Hegeler (pictured), the late wife of donor Julius W. Hegeler II. DANVILLE — Presence United Samaritans Medical Center has received a planned gift of $3 million from Julius W. Hegeler II that not only honors his late wife, but will […]
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Photo Caption: The present St. Louis Church in Princton was dedicated in 1951. PRINCETON — Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, will join members of St. Louis Church here for Mass on Sunday, July 26, as they celebrate the parish’s 150th anniversary. It will begin at 10:30 a.m. The celebration will continue in the parish hall, […]
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Photo Caption: St. Elizabeth Church in Washburn will remain open for occasional weekend Masses and for liturgies on special occasions following the July 15 merger. By: By Tom Dermody WASHBURN — St. Elizabeth Parish, a 147-year-old faith community in this village on the border of Woodford and Marshall counties, will be merged into St. Mary […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: As publication of Pope Francis encyclical on the environment neared, we asked readers of The Catholic Post to share examples of how they are caring for creation. Here is a sample of what we heard. —– ST. MARK STUDENTS PICK UP AREA TRASH Every Monday, dozens of students from St. Mark School in […]
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Photo Caption: Canon John Flattery, celebrating 60 years of ordination, was homilist at the Jubilarian Mass celebrated June 25 at Sacred Heart Church in Peoria. By: By Jennifer Willems They may not grace the covers of comic books or star in blockbuster films, but jubilarian priests of the Diocese of Peoria were celebrated as “heroes” […]
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Photo Caption: Minette Sternke wears a wedding dress for the June 20 Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria during which she was consecrated to the Order of Virgins by Bishop Jenky. By: By Jennifer Willems When Minette Sternke donned a beautiful white wedding dress and walked down the aisle of St. Mary’s Cathedral in […]
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