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Seminar calls on managers to live, model beliefs at work
Faith-based management sounds difficult, but for the speakers at a daylong seminar that explored the topic last Saturday it came down to something very basic.
“We need to witness to our faith by what we say and do, and we need to be Catholic in the business world, in the legal profession, in schools, in government all the time,” said Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, who welcomed the 65 men and women from around the diocese to “Being Different.”
“If we aren’t living our Catholic faith outside, we aren’t really living it inside,” he told them.
OSF Saint Francis shares in $25 million gift for center
A new training and conference center will be built at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria thanks to the largest donation in OSF Healthcare history.
OSF Saint Francis and the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria are the joint recipients of a $25 million gift from Jump Trading, a Chicago-based high frequency proprietary trading firm. The donation, announced at a reception Saturday evening in downtown Peoria, will fund construction of the Jump Trading Simulation and Conference Center.
“It will be a place that promotes training and education and that ultimately improves safety by caregivers at all levels of the medical center,” said Keith Steffen, CEO of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. The facility will be built on the current Milestone Construction Project construction site off Berkley Avenue, with construction expected to begin this summer.
Why Rock Island declared Feb. 25 'Sr. Mary Wolfe Day'
ROCK ISLAND -- When Sister Mary Wolfe, BVM, returned to the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa, last week, her luggage included something that didn’t take up much room but filled her heart.
Tucked away amid nearly 30 years of memories was a proclamation from Mayor Dennis E. Pauley of Rock Island, who designated Feb. 25, 2010, as Sister Mary Wolfe Day. At the end of the document, which was signed and presented at a City Council meeting earlier in the week, was a note encouraging “all residents of Rock Island to join Sacred Heart Parish in bidding farewell to her. She will truly be missed.”
“It was really fun but very humbling,” Sister Mary told The Catholic Post by telephone from her new home at Mount Carmel in Dubuque.
Deacon England dies; directed diocesan communications office
A committal service took place at Resurrection Cemetery in Peoria on Feb. 26 for Deacon Robert England, a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Peoria who served as director of the diocesan Office of Communications from 1979 to 1990.
Deacon England died on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, at Lutheran Home and Services in Arlington Heights. He was 94.
Born July 7, 1915, in Port Townsend, Wash., to James and Hazel (Jay) England, he had a 43-year career with Caterpillar, Inc., including three years in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he worked as the material superintendent.
Central Catholic girls win state hoops title: View slideshow
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BLOOMINGTON -- If team chemistry was a high school course, give every member of the state champion Bloomington Central Catholic girls basketball roster an A+ for finding a winning formula.
After outstanding teams in the last several years came close, the 2009-2010 edition of the Saints blended the right mix of faith, friendship, skill, athleticism, health, attitude and yes -- a little luck -- to achieve its goal of Central Catholic’s first state title in basketball.