Seeing flashing lights in the rearview mirror is something that makes most people’s hearts stop, but for Peg Shipley a recent traffic stop turned out to be a heartwarming experience. Returning to Bloomington from a meeting in Peoria one stormy night, she was stopped for driving over the center line. When the officer asked her […]
Continue readingOne of the most powerful tools in building membership in an organization is something everyone can handle. “You need to smile,” Jody Watermann told the 80 women who gathered at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria this month for a daylong program of leadership training that was developed by the National Council of Catholic Women. […]
Continue readingTheology on Tap, a popular diocesan outreach for young adults, is returning to Peoria this summer. Starting on July 14, the 2009 Summer Series of Theology on Tap will take place on four consecutive Tuesday evenings at Kelleher’s Irish Pub, 619 S.W. Water St. The gatherings begin at 6:30 p.m. Theology on Tap is offered […]
Continue readingPEORIA HEIGHTS — Sarah K. Johnson hadn’t been at Peoria Notre Dame High School for very long before she found out her life was going to change forever — and not in all the usual ways high school does that. What put Johnson’s life on a radically different course was Philadelphia Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, […]
Continue readingOn Sunday, July 5, St. Joseph’s Church in Peoria will join the list of central Illinois faith communities that regularly offer Mass in the extraordinary form, also known as the Tridentine rite. This is the liturgy celebrated in Latin according to the Roman Missal of 1962. Father Michael Driscoll, chaplain at OSF Saint Francis Medical […]
Continue readingI Am With You Always, Christ’s words of reassurance to his disciples after his resurrection, is the theme for the 23rd annual Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference, which is planned for July 17 and 18 at the Holiday Inn City Centre in Peoria. The speakers who will be breaking open that theme, which comes from Matthew […]
Continue readingLINCOLN — With a formal ribbon cutting and a blessing last Thursday, a new era began for the Lincoln branch office of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Peoria at newer and more spacious office facilities at 2110 W. Fifth St. In past years, Catholic Charities operated out of a former residence located at 310 […]
Continue readingA cell phone rang last Friday evening just as Christian musician John Michael Talbot was lyrically inviting about 500 concert-goers at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Peoria to “come to the quiet.” “That had better be God calling,” dead-panned Talbot, continuing the soothing melody on his six-string guitar. Many of those attending the concert […]
Continue readingCatholic religious educators should remember that Catholic doctrine is for spiritual “formation,” not just “information.” That was a message of John Cavadini’s keynote address at the 2009 Diocesan Summer Institute, delivered Friday morning at St. Vincent de Paul Church. Titled “The Relationship Between the Teaching of Christian Doctrine and the Formation of Persons as Christians,” […]
Continue readingThe 2009 Diocesan Summer Institute was launched last Friday with a burst of energy from the head of the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization. “He is the Eveready Bunny working on nuclear power — he just never stops,” said Father Douglas Grandon, associate director of the diocesan Office of Catechetics, as he introduced Bill […]
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