By: By Jennifer Willems (Editor’s note: Additional photos from the dedication ceremonies have been posted on The Catholic Post’s Facebook site.) With full hearts, words of thanks and a generous sprinkling of holy water, the new Family Resources Center in Peoria was blessed and dedicated by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, on Oct. 23. “Make […]
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Photo Caption: Teachers from St. Mary School in Bloomington hold hands during the Lord’s Prayer at the opening Mass for the Diocesan Teachers’ Institute on Oct. 11. Nearly 800 teachers, principals and friends of Catholic education received encouragement and enough food for thought to take them through the rest of the school year at the […]
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Photo Caption: At the Oct. 11 Diocesan Teachers’ Institute, speaker Greg Dhuyvetter conferes with Maureen Vadis of Peoria Notre Dame high School about the plans for the school’s library. By: By Jennifer Willems When it comes to using technology in — and out — of the classroom, no one is going to do it perfectly, […]
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Photo Caption: Shannon Alvarez, a parent at St. Mark School in Peoria, takes part in a discussion on bullying and the school’s pioneering new Safe School Ambassador program. By: By Tom Dermody Name-calling. Teasing. Leaving someone out of a conversation or game. Shoving. Bullying. Mistreatment of others at school — including at Catholic schools — […]
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Photo Caption: Students are invited to “find your center” as they walk past St. John’s Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. By: By Jennifer Willems EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a monthly series profiling college campus ministry in the Diocese of Peoria. CHAMPAIGN — At the heart of the […]
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Photo Caption: All are invited to hear best-selling Catholic author and popular speaker Scott Hahn during a day-long event on Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria. The New Evangelization, the Eucharist and Mary are among the topics that will be discussed during “A Day with Scott Hahn” on Saturday, Nov. 2, […]
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FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — A funeral Mass was celebrated at Ascension Church here on Oct. 14 for Father Richard E. Raney, 100, the priest with the most seniority in the Diocese of Peoria. Father Raney, a former pastor of parishes in Ottawa, Chatsworth, Chillicothe, and Moline, died on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 in Fort […]
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Photo Caption: In what Bishop Jenky terms an “exciting and historic event,” a first class relic of Blessed John Paul II will be coming to Peoria and Normal next month. Catholics in the Diocese of Peoria will have a special way to share the joy of the canonization of Blessed John Paul II months before […]
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Photo Caption: Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, blesses a classroom of the new St. Jude School in Peoria following a Mass of Thanksgiving at the parish on Oct. 5. Winnie Pratt, principal, looks on. By: By Jennifer Willems As he looked around the gymnasium brimming with young families and longtime parishioners at the new St. […]
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By: By Tom Dermody On a night when optimism and hope were recurring themes, wonderful news was announced at the annual Respect Life Dinner in Peoria before keynote speaker David Andrusko reached the microphone. In a report on the work of the Family Resources Center, the pro-life outreach in downtown Peoria supported by the dinner, […]
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