Photo Caption: Jodi Peine listens to sixth-grader Emma Mueller at St. Philomena School in Peoria. Peine has been selected as on of 10 to receive the Distinguished Principal Award from the NCEA. By: By Jennifer Willems Jodi Peine doesn’t talk about herself easily. She’d much rather take you on a tour of her school, St. […]
Continue readingKEWANEE — The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board on Tuesday approved the Certificate of Exemption application of OSF Healthcare System for a change of ownership of Kewanee Hospital. The approval means that the planned integration of Kewanee Hospital into OSF Healthcare can be finalized. Kewanee Hospital will become OSF Saint Luke Medical Center […]
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Photo Caption: With just some of the clothing, toys, and other gifts given St. Patrick Church and School in Washington are, from left, Doreen Shipman, Christine Serangeli, Father Stephen Willard, and Stephany Bina. By: By Tom Dermody WASHINGTON — As coordinators of tornado relief at St. Patrick Parish here reported Monday on both the “extreme” […]
Continue readingWASHINGTON — Father Stephen Willard told parishioners who packed St. Patrick Church a week after a powerful tornado devastated this community and surrounding regions that “we’ll triumph through our sorrows” and “prove to the world that we are strong in Christ Jesus.” “The Lord will always raise us up,” said Father Willard. (Excerpts from his […]
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Photo Caption: Volunteers from Peoria Notre Dame High School unload bottled water at a relief storage and distribution site now being coordinated by Catholic Charities in Peoria. When disaster struck Central Illinois, among those who quickly mobilized to offer relief and prayers were the Catholic schools of the Diocese of Peoria. Nearly all of the […]
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Photo Caption: Sister Ana Pia Cordua, SCTJM, director of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Peoria, joins volunteers in examining an early shipment to the warehouse at 1825 N.E. Adams St. in Peoria. A large warehouse owned by the Diocese of Peoria and vacant for nearly three years is now bustling with relief activity for […]
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Photo Caption: Msgr. Albert Hallin stands in front of the small altar in his apartment at Inman Place in Champaign. By: By Jennifer Willems CHAMPAIGN — In the living room of his cozy Inman Place apartment here, Msgr. Albert Hallin has a small altar where he celebrates Mass. Resting on it is the chalice his […]
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Photo Caption: Sister Josephine Rosenkranz, OSF, stands by a stained glass window depicting the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the motherhouse of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Frankfort. By: By Jennifer Willems FRANKFORT — She can’t quite put her finger on it, but Sister Josephine Rosenkranz, OSF, was always attracted to the […]
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By: By Father Mark DeSutter Editor’s note: Following is the full text of the homily given by Father Mark DeSutter at the Nov. 20 funeral Mass for Father Robert E. Prendergast. Father Prendergast died Nov. 13 at his home in Kewanee. His obituary is found here. Father DeSutter is pastor of Blessed Sacrament Parish in […]
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Following is a letter from Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC: —– To the Clergy, Religious and Laity of the Diocese of Peoria: My dear Friends, Soon, our parishes will be conducting the appeal for the Retirement Fund for Religious, an annual collection that benefits some 34,000 senior sisters, brothers, and religious order priests. As I […]
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