BLOOMINGTON — Home Sweet Home Ministries will benefit from a shoe drive planned for Aug. 8-17 by OSF St. Joseph Medical Center and Dr. Todd Snoeyink, DPM, of OSF Medical Group. New and gently used men’s, women’s and children’s shoes may be dropped off at the Bloomington medical center, Eastland Medical Plaza I by the […]
Continue readingBy: By Jennifer Willems Get out your passport. Members of the Bishop’s Commission on Women in the Church and in Society are charting a new course and they’re inviting people around the Diocese of Peoria to come with them. Among the journeys on the horizon is a “Pilgrimage to the Shrines and Saints of Spain […]
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Photo Caption: Enjoying family time at home in LaSalle are Mike and Maria Rosploch with their daughters Lily (left) and Mya. By: By Jennifer Willems LASALLE — Lily Rosploch may be only 5 years old, but she knows the way to St. Bede Abbey Church in Peru so well that when her father, Mike, decided […]
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By: By Tom Dermody Editor’s Note: Following is just a sampling of mission trip activities that young people from around the Diocese of Peoria took part in during the summer. An album of group and action photos will be posted on The Catholic Post’s Facebook page. —– 51 PEORIA NOTRE DAME STUDENTS CONDUCT SUMMER CAMP […]
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Photo Caption: Suzanne Reidy presents a chalice in honor of her late husband, John, to Father Johnathan Steffen for use at the St. John Paul II Newman Center in Normal. By: By Jennifer Willems NORMAL — John Reidy, Terry McReynolds and John C. Morris had two things in common. Not only were they all members […]
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Photo Caption: Father Ric Schneider, OFM, pastor of St. Mary Parish in Bloomington, is joined in the parish garden by, from left, Rita Yordy, Mary Kramp and Steve Kuhn. By: By Jennifer Willems BLOOMINGTON — Faith has long been part of the landscape at the corner of Mason and Taylor streets here. Once the site […]
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Photo Caption: Catechist, author and blogger Joe Paprocki will be the keynote speaker for the Diocese of Peoria’s annual Catechetical Leadership Conference. Catechist, author and blogger Joe Paprocki will be the keynote speaker for the Diocese of Peoria’s annual Catechetical Leadership Conference, which is planned for Saturday, Aug. 2. Sponsored by the Office of Catechetics, […]
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Photo Caption: Scott Schoonmaker cuts a tile cross. An online catalogue of his creations is at stojoart.com. By: By Tom Dermody MOLINE — Scott Schoonmaker and his father were tiling a bathroom floor at Scott’s grandparents’ home when the Moline teenager thought of another use for the tile. “I just decided to see if I […]
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Photo Caption: “It’s so fulfilling if you can rescue one or two or three children in a night,” says Mary Queen of Heaven Missionary Sister Irene Baquiran. By: By Jennifer Willems Four times a week, members of the Mary Queen of Heaven Missionaries put aside their pale pink habits and white veils, don civilian clothing, […]
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PERU — A Mass of Christian Burial was offered in St. Bede Abbey Church on July 9 for Father Henry Fritz, OSB, who served as a teacher and principal at St. Bede Academy for 37 years and gave nearly 30 more to parishes around the Diocese of Peoria. Abbot Philip Davey, OSB, of St. Bede […]
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