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By: Jennifer Willems - November 3, 2021 -
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Bonnie Engstrom, Fulton Sheen and the Very Bad Week, Katie Bogner, Mariam Khoury Briggs
A page from the activity book designed by Katie Boger is seen next to "Fulton Sheen and the Very Bad Week" by Bonnie Engstrom. The artwork by Mariam Khoury Briggs was used with her permission in Bogner's resource. (Provided photo)
“Fulton Sheen and the Very Bad Week” now has a companion activity book. Katie Bogner, junior high faith formation teacher at St. Philomena School in Peoria, designed it to help students in kindergarten through fourth grade learn more about Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. It also invites children to go deeper into one of the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 3, 2021 -
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The repeal of Illinois’ Parental Notice of Abortion Act has been denounced as “contrary to the legal and moral right of parents to care for their children” by the Catholic Conference of Illinois. In a late night vote on Oct. 27, a bill to repeal the act passed the Illinois House by a margin of […]
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By: Tom Dermody - November 3, 2021 -
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Msgr. Eugene Morris addresses priests of the Diocese of Peoria on the challenges of the post-COVID church during his keynote talk at Priest Assembly Days at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria on Oct. 18. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
Priests must live the “mystery of the cross” in order to respond to pastoral challenges including division and indifference that have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’re all waiting to see — now that life is, in a sense, returning to normal and more freedoms are able to be exercised — are we going to […]
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By: Tom Dermody - November 3, 2021 -
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Father Don Roszkowski, assistant chaplain at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, is pictured at the Oct. 21 blessing ceremony for the new OSF Street Medicine Shuttle, seen in the background. The vehicle will help address the needs of the area's growing homeless population. The ceremony took place at the Faith Community Nursing base at 719 N. William Kumpf Blvd. in Peoria. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
To enhance the care given to a growing number of “unsheltered patients who struggle with homelessness” in the Peoria area, OSF HealthCare on Oct. 21 blessed a shuttle van for use by its newly developed Street Medicine Program. The van will provide space for the OSF Faith Community Nurse team to have confidential encounters and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 31, 2021 -
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Deacon Harley Chaffee
GENESEO — A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 2, at St. Malachy Church here for Deacon Harley Chaffee, who served as a permanent deacon at the parish for 37 years. Deacon Chaffee died on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, at OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria. […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - October 21, 2021 -
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Elected to serve as the general council for the Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception in West Peoria on Oct. 9 were (from left) Sister Holly Marie Schulz, councilor; Sister Irene Marie Fritch, vice president; Sister Kathleen Ann Mourisse, president; and Sister Betty Jean Haverback, councilor. They will be installed Dec. 5. (Provided photo)
WEST PEORIA — Sister Kathleen Ann Mourisse, OSF, has been elected to serve a second term as president of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception. She will be installed at a Mass on Dec. 5, with Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka as the celebrant. Assisting Sister Kathleen Ann will be Sister Irene Marie […]
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By: Tom Dermody - October 21, 2021 -
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Saying “we have to listen and learn from each other, know each other, so we can be the church God wants us to be,” Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka on Sunday officially opened the Diocese of Peoria’s phase of the worldwide process leading to a Synod of Bishops in 2023. Bishop Tylka was celebrant and homilist […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 21, 2021 -
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John J. Gibson
A funeral Mass will be offered at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 22, at St. Joseph Church in Peoria for John J. Gibson, who served as development director for the Diocese of Peoria from 2005 until his retirement in 2019. Gibson, who was also a past president of the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Foundation board […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 21, 2021 -
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Ingrid Ruscheinski shows Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka some of the garments that go into the layettes prepared for families in need by the Christ Child Society of Central Illinois. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
Members of the Christ Child Society of Central Illinois were thanked for their ministry to newborns and families in need when Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka visited their Peoria workroom on Oct. 6. “I want to offer a word of encouragement and gratitude for what you are doing,” he said after touring the space, located in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 7, 2021 -
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Sister Catherina Walsh, BVM
DUBUQUE, Iowa — A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Oct. 7 at Mount Carmel Bluffs for Sister Catherina Walsh, BVM, who spent more than three decades as a teacher, administrator and volunteer in Rock Island. Burial was in Mount Carmel Cemetery. Sister Catherina died Sept. 30, 2021, at MercyOne Medical Center in Dubuque, […]
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