October 30, 2014 Contact: Bill Engelbrecht 309-671-1550 (PEORIA, IL) St. Thomas Catholic School in Peoria Heights will host a very special little girl on Monday, November 3 when Acacia “Tiny” Woodley travels to Peoria from Florida to visit St. Thomas’s 400 plus elementary students. This little 12 year old girl, born without complete arms, who […]
NEWS RELEASE Catholic Diocese of Peoria November 5, 2013 Contact: Monsignor James Kruse Vicar General 309.671.1550 MAJOR RELIC OF BLESSED JOHN PAUL II COMING TO ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL ON NOV. 18
By Jennifer Willems SILVIS — Deacon Matthew Levy will spend his vacation in France this year, but he only plans to rest for about two hours. That’s all the time he’s built into his 750-mile ride from Paris to Brest, a city on the Atlantic Ocean, and back again. While he has 90 hours — […]
By Tom Dermody With bluntness and urgency, speakers at the Charismatic Renewal Conference last Saturday called Catholics to grow closer to Christ in order to recognize and live his truth among the deceptions and temptations rampant in today’s society. “There’s a tremendously brutal confrontation going on right now between Christ and the anti-Christ, and 1,700 […]
By Tom Dermody CHAMPAIGN — As a series of disturbing videos continued to be released claiming Planned Parenthood’s involvement in procuring and selling human body parts from aborted fetuses, some members of the local pro-life community turned to public prayer on Tuesday. About 15 people took part in a prayerful demonstration during the lunch hour […]
By Jennifer Willems LASALLE — Who says sharing the faith can’t be fun, as well as deeply spiritual and inspiring? This summer, four teams of college students and seminarians have been using laughter and games, music, study and prayer to help students in 21 parishes around the Diocese of Peoria grow in holiness as part […]
Spain and Portugal Saints and Shrines Pilgrimage April 18 – 27 Lent Event : Pysanky – Egg Decorating Technique March 7 St. Mary’s, Champaign Marian Shrines of Wisconsin Fall 2015
November 5, 2013 Contact: Monsignor James Kruse, Vicar General 309-671-1550 (PEORIA, IL) In what Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, calls an “exciting and historic event,” a first class relic of Blessed John Paul II is coming to the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Peoria for public and private veneration on the […]
March 6, 2014 Contact: Monsignor Stanley Deptula Msgr_Deptula@cdop.org 309-677-7085 (PEORIA, IL) The Most Reverend Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, Bishop of Peoria and President of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation, received word early Thursday morning that the 7-member board of medical experts who advise the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints at the Vatican unanimously […]
Obedience in Life, Obedience in Death: The Great Example of Archbishop Sheen by Msgr. Richard Soseman Obedience. Obedience can be a challenge. Every child knows this. My abundant great nieces and nephews are truly great kids, well behaved young men and women. They are tremendously good, and I have see them, often, engage in selfless […]
September 3, 2014 Contact: Diocese of Peoria, Illinois 309-671-1550 It is with immense sadness that the Most Reverend Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, Bishop of Peoria and President of the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Foundation, announced today that the Cause for Sheen’s beatification and canonization has for the foreseeable future been suspended. The process to verify […]