Photo Caption: Katie Bogner dispays a “pop-out” Marian Shrine she included in a religious education curriculum she designed that looks through the lens of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen’s life. By: By Jennifer Willems PEKIN — Fulton Sheen helped the fifth-graders at St. Joseph School learn about the sacraments, prayer and Mary last year and now […]
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Photo Caption: Those attending Rozanne Karr’s 90th birthday party this Saturday, Aug. 9, are asked to bring baby items to benefit families in need throughout DeWitt County. By: By Jennifer Willems WAPELLA — For her 90th birthday, Rozanne Karr didn’t ask for much. She just wanted a baby shower. Mrs. Karr knows more than a […]
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Photo Caption: An image of the Santo Nino de Cebu is carried by Al Cuizon, Alex Morales, and Alfredo Cuizon during a eucharistic procession through St. Joseph Church in Peoria on July 20. For 15 years, Filipino Catholics have filled St. Joseph Church in Peoria to pray and sing of their love for the Christ […]
Continue readingWhen respect life coordinators from parishes around central Illinois gather in Peoria on Saturday, Aug. 24, they will pray together, hear about the U.S. bishops’ Respect Life program, and recommit themselves to promoting life from conception until natural death. They may also get a peek inside the new Family Resources Center, which is nearing completion […]
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Photo Caption: Seminarian Matthew Deptula visits with eighth-graders at St. Philomena School in Peoria during a break from his own studies. Students in Catholic schools around central Illinois are proud of their “big brothers” — all 31 of them — and the children are making sure they know it. Those “big brothers” are the seminarians […]
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Photo Caption: Rose Costello, former teacher and principal at Holy Cross School in Champaign, is the first regional coordinator of Catholic education for the Champaign Vicariate of the Diocese of Peoria. CHAMPAIGN — She retired as principal at Holy Cross School in May, but no one really believed Rose Costello would sit still for long. […]
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Photo Caption: Collin Cornett of Minneapolis, Minn., and a team of young Catholics paint the interior of the parish center at St. Mary Parish in Champaign as part of their Catholic HEART Workcamp experience. By: By Tom Dermody CHAMPAIGN — As Jazmin Butzin cleared trays of dirty lunch dishes for guests at the Daily Bread […]
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MORTON — A funeral Mass was offered at Blessed Sacrament Church here on July 17 for Deacon Thomas A. Moran, 87, a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Peoria who served at Blessed Sacrament Parish from 1992 to 2006. Deacon Moran died on Sunday, July 14, 2013, at Pinecrest Community in Mount Morris. Father Mark […]
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Photo Caption: Members of Sacred Heart, Rutland, leave the church after the closing Mass on July 7. Sacred Heart has merged into St. Ann Parish, Toluca. RUTLAND — At the final Mass at Sacred Heart Church here, many commented on the beauty of the more than century-old church, including its striking stained glass windows. But […]
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Spanish-speaking Catholics from Bloomington, Peru, LaSalle, Mendota, Peoria, Seneca and Streator gathered at Nazareth House in rural Henry last weekend to celebrate the Year of Faith by reflecting on “Faith in Christ and His Church.” The retreat — conducted completely in Spanish — included Masses, the sacrament of reconciliation, eucharistic adoration, a rosary procession on […]
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