Photo Caption: Father David Whiteside, pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, Manito, stands close to the church as it is razed April 5. Parishioners have raised $1.45 million toward a new church and parish hall. By: By Jennifer Willems MANITO — It took just 23 minutes for Immaculate Conception Church here to be reduced to rubble […]
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Photo Caption: State Rep. Mike Unes (R-91st) shares the story of why he got into politics during the Faith-Based Leadership Workshop in Peoria on March 29. By: By Tom Dermody Asked to boil down a morning of discussion on faith-centered leadership to just three words of advice, a group of students from the John Paul […]
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Photo Caption: Ryan Ochs (far right) poses with his sponsor, Vince Felicetti, and Kristen Goetzka. He is one of eight people who will be baptized at St. John’s Chapel in Champaign at the Easter Vigil. By: By Jennifer Willems CHAMPAIGN — As a junior at the University of Illinois, Ryan Ochs is still asking questions […]
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Photo Caption: Kellsey McGuire demonstrates the training that make her and Jasper, a 2-year-old Lab mix, such a winning team. By: By Jennifer Willems ROCK ISLAND — Bringing your best friend to school every day might be called a bonus. When that best friend can save your life, however, he’s called a hero. That’s what […]
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By: By Tom Dermody BLOOMINGTON — Central Catholic High School is built on a foundation of belief, in God and in one another. But among the many adjectives used to describe its boys’ basketball team’s charge to the Illinois High School Association’s Class 2A crown — epic, historic, thrilling — perhaps the most heard was […]
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Photo Caption: The original St. Casimir Church in Streator was originally part of a Russian exhibit at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. This photo is part of the exhibit at The Musems of the Diocese of Peoria. By: By Tom Dermody Museums display treasures, but visitors to the current exhibit at the Museums of […]
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Photo Caption: Sister Mary Core, OSB, hugs fourth-grader Ashlynn Lara during a visit to Our Lady of Grace Academy in East Moline during National Catholic Sisters Week. By: By Jennifer Willems EAST MOLINE — Four Benedictine Sisters from St. Mary Monastery in Rock Island went back to the classroom recently, but instead of cracking books […]
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Photo Caption: Slave Regina Newman Center serves the nearly 125 Catholic students attending Eureka College. Father Eugene Radosevich is chaplain/director. By: By Jennifer Willems EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fifth in a series profiling Catholic campus ministry at colleges located within the borders of the Diocese of Peoria. EUREKA — If everything had gone according […]
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Photo Caption: Hannah Hudson of St. Malachy Parish in Rantoul smiles as Bishop Jenky greets Roxanne Street, who is preparing to receive the Easter sacraments at the Easter Vigil on April 19. By: By Jennifer Willems St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria resounded with joy-filled song and applause on March 16, as people preparing to be […]
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Photo Caption: First-graders Conrad Pfaff, Drew Clement and Sophie Deany of St. Mary School, Pontiac, pray the rosary. St. Mary students are the first in Illinois to join the worldwide Children’s Rosary movement. By: By Jennifer Willems PONTIAC — Praying the rosary is nothing new for students of St. Mary School here, who discovered the […]
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