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Priests get directives on Mass, sacraments during this ‘difficult moment in history’

By: The Catholic Post   -   March 16, 2020   -   News Article baptisms, Confirmation, Coronavirus, directives, funerals, Msgr. Halfacre, priests, weddings

Priests of the Diocese of Peoria are shown at last May's Mass of Ordination for Father Daniel McShane at St. Mary's Cathedral. (The Catholic Post file/Tom Dermody)

“I suspect that we shall remember these times for the rest of our lives.” So wrote Msgr. Philip D. Halfacre, vicar general, in a letter to priests of the Diocese of Peoria after Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, suspended all Masses March 13 because of coronavirus concerns. The letter to priests included a series of […]