Photo Caption: Johnette Benkovic will speak at the Diocesan Conference for the Widowed and Divorced June 16 at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria. Catholic media personality and author Johnnette Benkovic will be the featured speaker at a Diocesan Conference for the Widowed and Divorced on June 16 that will also include a dozen workshops […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: On Friday, March 23, more than 120 communities around the United States hosted “Stand Up for Religious Freedom” rallies calling on the U.S. government to drop a mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services forcing employers, including religious ones, to provide coverage of contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients in their health insurance […]
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PERU — A funeral Mass will be offered at St. Bede Abbey Church at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, for Abbot Marion Balsavich, OSB, the fifth abbot of St. Bede Abbey who guided the Benedictine community from 1981 to 1990. Abbot Marion, 86, died from complications of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the early morning hours […]
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Photo Caption: Sister Helena Burns, FSP, one of 13 prominent Catholic women bloggers featured at the “Behold” conference, chats with attendees between sessions. Everyone needs heroes and inviting Catholic women bloggers was one way of providing them for the 560 participants at “Behold: A Catholic Conference on the Dignity and Vocation of Women,” said executive […]
Continue readingCatholic men of the Diocese of Peoria — who gather by the hundreds every spring to take a public stand in defense of faith, family, and the priesthood — have another urgent reason to attend this year’s “A Call to Catholic Men of Faith” on Saturday, April 14: To defend religious freedom, threatened on both […]
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Photo Caption: Agnes Christman of Danville, vice president of the Peoria DCCW and chair of its legislation committee, presents a letter to a member of Gov. Quinn’s staff as Joan Weber and Nympha White look on. SPRINGFIELD — If Illinois lawmakers don’t know where their Catholic constituents stand on pro-life legislation currently being considered it […]
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Photo Caption: Members of the permanent diaconate community convening in Peoria March 3 sing “Happy Birthday” to Bishop Jenky and present him with 3 cakes, including one bearing his coat-of-arms in frosting. By: By Tom Dermody As the church faces “terribly serious” threats to religious freedom nationally and also confronts local challenges, Bishop Daniel R. […]
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Photo Caption: Msgr. Charles Beebe, PA, accepts a sculpture of “The Divine Servant” showing Jesus washing the feet of Peter, an expression of the diaconate community’s gratitude for his two decades of leadership. By: By Tom Dermody One by one they came forward on March 3, sharing memories of as well as love and gratitude […]
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Photo Caption: Jacob Rose stands in front of Immaculate Conception Chapel at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., where he is in his third year of theology studies. By: By Jacob Rose EDITOR’S NOTE: The following reflection was written by Jacob Rose, a seminarian of the Diocese of Peoria who is in his third […]
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DANVILLE — Schlarman Academy announced this week that its “Our Faith, Our Children, Our Future” capital campaign has met the $1.5 million goal. A total of $1,505,637 had been pledged by March 8, according to Janet Picillo, development director. “We are truly grateful for the support we have received for this campaign,” said Picillo. “We […]
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