Photo Caption: Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, will join Cursillistas and their guests for a 6:30 p.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria on Saturday, Sept. 13. It’s easy to count the number of Cursillo weekends that have taken place in the Diocese of Peoria since the “short course in Christianity” was brought here […]
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Photo Caption: Central Catholic graduates now FOCUS missionaries are, clockwise from upper left, Zoe Myers, Emma Schopp, Joey Gruenwald and Annie Rondone. Not pictured is University High grad Krystal Montesdeoca. By: By Tom Dermody BLOOMINGTON — Four Central Catholic High School graduates, fresh from earning college degrees this spring, met at a Starbucks here in […]
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Photo Caption: At the retreat Mass are principals, from left, Richard Morehouse (St. Mary, Pontiac, and St. Paul, Odell), Mary Paula Schmitt (St. Louis, Princeton), and Gail Lewis (Schlarman Academy, Danville). By: By Jennifer Willems HENRY — As principals from around the Diocese of Peoria gathered at Nazareth House to prepare for another school year, […]
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Photo Caption: Dr. Sharon Weiss, superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Diocese of Peoria, says Catholic schools are “an evangelizing and teaching arm of the Church.” By: By Jennifer Willems After a year of working with diocesan schools to collect information, surface best practices and see where more support is needed, the Office of Catholic […]
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Photo Caption: The present St. Malachy School was dedicated in 1962. Two expansions have added classrooms, an early childhood learning center, computer and science labs, library, music room and office space. By: By Jennifer Willems RANTOUL — Students, alumni and parishioners will have more than one reason to cheer during homecoming weekend at St. Malachy […]
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Photo Caption: Ada Oetgen, a graduate of and former teacher at Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing in Peoria, died in February at the age of 89. Not only was Ada Oetgen a graduate of the Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing in Peoria, but she taught there for many years. Now a […]
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: Denise Henderson, who got the WaterStep shoe drive going at The Iona Group and St. Ann’s WATCH, is pictured with Iona Group and WaterStep leaders. By: By Jennifer Willems MORTON — Anyone who has a pair of shoes they don’t wear anymore can do something to provide cleaning drinking water for people who […]
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