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Group from Moline parish back from El Salvador ‘immersion’

By: By Jennifer Willems MOLINE — Walking down “memory lane” can bring great joy. It can also bring great sadness. Sister Charlotte Seubert, FSPA, pastoral associate at Christ the King Parish found both when she returned to El Salvador in August as part of a group from the Moline parish. They traveled to El Salvador […]

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Diocese receives relic on Mother Teresa’s birth centenary

As Catholics around the world celebrated the 100th birthday of Blessed Mother Teresa on Aug. 26 (see stories, next page), the Diocese of Peoria received a priceless gift from the religious community the late nun founded. The Missionaries of Charity have given the diocese a first-class relic of their foundress — a lock of Mother […]

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Parish respect life reps pray, study, are commissioned

By: By Jennifer Willems God gifts each person to do what he asks, but there’s a catch. “With every gift comes a responsibility to use what we have received for the glory of God and the service of our neighbor,” Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, told the parish respect life coordinators from around the Diocese […]

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Senior priests told lasting importance of relationships

HENRY — God created human beings to live in an “obligatory matrix” of time, space, things and relationships, and at death we leave three of them behind, said a Franciscan priest and scientist who recently addressed the senior priests of the Diocese of Peoria at their annual gathering at Nazareth House. “When we pass through […]

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New playground blessed at St. Jude Catholic School, Peoria

Just try keeping children off of brand new playground equipment until the adults get done praying for its safe use and then enforcing those petitions by sprinkling holy water on it. It can’t be done. That’s what parents, benefactors, principal Winnie Pratt and Father Patrick Henehan, pastor, found out last Sunday when the St. Jude […]

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$2 million donation boosts OSF Hospice Home project

A private, anonymous donation of $2 million has revitalized plans for a proposed OSF Hospice Home to serve terminally ill patients and support their families in the Peoria area. The donation to OSF Home Care Services, which intends to build the area’s first hospice home near the OSF Center for Health on Route 91 northwest […]

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Expanded Newman Center, new chapel opens at ISU-Normal

NORMAL — St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Newman Center had a very special welcome for new and returning Catholic students to Illinois State and Illinois Wesleyan universities last weekend: A new spiritual home. The first Masses were celebrated Sunday, Aug. 22, in the new Chapel of St. Robert Bellarmine, located at 501 S. Main. “Everyone’s very […]

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Sr. Rose Therese professes perpetual vows as Franciscan

Sister Rose Therese Mann, OSF, knew from the time she was 13 that she wanted to enter religious life and she wanted to do it as a member of a Franciscan community. While she communicated with several of them in high school and college, it took just one visit to the East Peoria motherhouse of […]

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Catholic schools reopen; Bishop says Gospel their heart, soul

There was no doubt that the principals and pastors of Catholic schools who gathered at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria on Aug. 12 believe in Catholic education, according to a fellow educator and the chief catechist of the Diocese of Peoria. “We know how necessary for our faith, for our communities, for our state, […]

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Seminarian scholarship dinner raises $30,000 for new fund

Msgr. George Carton would be pleased. The vocations director of the Diocese of Peoria and its seminarians certainly are. An Aug. 6 dinner to explain and seek funds for a new college seminarian scholarship fund named for the late Msgr. Carton — longtime diocesan chancellor who founded a Seminarian Endowment Fund decades ago — raised […]

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