Photo Caption: Leah Darrow and Bob Rice will energetically share the Catholic faith at both the 2012 Youth Rally for high school students on Nov. 3 and the first-ever Junior High Youth Rally on Nov. 4. In planning a Catholic youth rally, what could be better than having a former professional model and a nationally […]
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Photo Caption: At the Oct. 7 Mass on the feast of the Holy Rosary, Bishop Jenky also renewed his call to turn to the Blessed Mother to protect our country. Election Day will be “another decisive day” not only in the United States but in the history of the Catholic Church in this country, Bishop […]
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Photo Caption: Linda Howley-Skuby, president of the Women in the Church and in Society, reads a framed copy of the group’s charter before presenting it to Bishop Jenky. By: By Jennifer Willems With the Year of Faith fast approaching, the 70 people who attended the annual Day of Recollection sponsored by the Bishop’s Commission on […]
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Photo Caption: Maralyn Guthrie sits at one of the two pianos in her Annawan home. This Sunday she will be honored for her 40 years of music ministry at Sacred Heart Church. By: By Jennifer Willems ANNAWAN — Over the years it has given Maralyn Guthrie great joy to hear people singing during Mass. As […]
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Photo Caption: Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, said at the Respect Life Dinner that “we have the truth…and we have to have the courage to defend the lives being threatened.” By: By Tom Dermody “Courage.” The president of the National Right to Life Committee brought that one-word wish to 152 […]
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Photo Caption: Sister Judith Ann Duvall, OSF, (seated, center) with Council Sisters, from left, Sister Agnes Joseph Williams, Sister Rose Therese Mann, Sister Theresa Ann Brazeau, and Sister Diane Marie McGrew. EAST PEORIA — Sister Judith Ann Duvall, OSF, has been elected to another six-year term as major superior of The Sisters of the Third […]
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Photo Caption: Sister Marie holds the crucifix that will eventually grace the chapel being built by the Apostolic Sisters of St. John in Princeville. By: By Jennifer Willems PRINCEVILLE — The Community of St. John is growing. In September, the Apostolic Sisters of St. John established their first U.S. novitiate house in rural Princeville. The […]
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Photo Caption: Among those planting “seeds of understanding” Sept. 24 were Sr. Catherine Cleary, OSB, of St. Mary Monastery, Rock Island, Alisa Antonelli of Davenport and Sr. Judith Therese McNulty, BVM, of Moline. By: By Jennifer Willems MOLINE — When Pope Benedict XVI recently visited Lebanon, he called on Catholics to dialogue with their Orthodox, […]
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Photo Caption: Golden anniversary couple Ted and Virginia Gilles (foreground) of St. Mary of the Woods Parish in Princeville were among couples renewing their vows at the annual diocesan Anniversary Mass Sept. 16. By: By Tom Dermody Some might say it was chance that brought John Minnaert of Atkinson, then a worker on the County […]
Continue readingBy: By Jennifer Willems DANVILLE — How do you plan a surprise celebration for someone when the person you’re honoring generally helps to plan parish celebrations? In the case of Mary Rothery, parish secretary at Holy Family Church here, it happens with a lot of good humor and love, just as it would in any […]
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