Sister Kathleen Murray, DC, knows the power of prayer. And now a whole lot more people do, too, thanks to the State Champion Gibault Hawks basketball team. This past season Sister Kathleen, the assistant to the principal at Sister Thea Bowman Catholic School in East St. Louis, and Sister Thea […]
The 2023 Illinois March for Life will be held in Springfield on March 21, and includes additional events. 10:00 am Mass at the Sangamon Auditorium: 1 University Plaza There will be plenty of parking available in the lot of the auditorium. Buses will have a designated place for parking after […]
Mater Dei High School girls basketball coach Craig Zurliene was eager to talk about the secret to his team’s 62-46 Class 2A state championship victory over Byron on March 4 at Redbird Arena in Normal. “This is the byproduct of the girls working together, being selfless and really embracing our […]
Cameron and Taylor Yosanovich of Christopher are following in the footsteps of their son John Matthew, 7. After John Matthew’s grandmother Chrissy Dirnbeck converted to Catholicism two years ago he began attending Mass with her regularly. He also began attending the Parish School of Religion at St. John the Baptist […]
Sister Mary Louise (Mary Matthew) Degenhart, ASC, of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, died at 12:35 p.m. at Benedictine Living Community, Belleville, Illinois, on March 31, 2023. She was 85 years old and had been professed for 68 years. She was one of four children born to the […]
By MSGR. JOHN MYLER The mega-hit 2004 film THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST from director / producer / actor Mel Gibson will be followed in 2024 by THE RESURRECTION, also to be directed by Gibson. Filming is scheduled to begin in the next few months, with Jim Caviezel again as […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic Church formally “repudiates those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of Indigenous peoples, including what has become known as the legal and political ‘doctrine of discovery,’” a Vatican statement said. Issued March 30 by the dicasteries for Culture and Education and […]
