Friday, January 30, 2009

Bet You Won't Read This in The Peoria Catholic Post

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CBS News Sunday Morning had this story last Sunday. It is national news....except in Peoria. About a "carrier", formerly known as...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Katina Needs Surgery

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Katina is a 13 year old Haitian girl. She had heart surgery at OSF in Peoria in 2002. She needs repeat heart surgery and OSF will not operat...
Monday, January 26, 2009

No Wonder People Don't Trust

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The Peoria Catholic Post December 21, 2008 has an article on the Vatican document "Dignitas Personae" (The Dignity of a Person). T...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Catholic Diocese of Peoria

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See Elaine Hopkins post today.

Law of Reform

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Niccoló Machiavelli presciently wrote in 1513, "There is nothing more difficult to manage, more dubious to accomplish, nor more doubtfu...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Bishop Jenky Needs to March in Peoria

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The Peoria Catholic Post has a lead article this week that reports that Bishop Daniel Jenky is going to Washington D.C. to march for a pro l...

The African-American Womb is a Dangerous Place

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In Haiti the maternal mortality rate is one of the highest in the world. This is not good for the baby inside if the mother's health det...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The Diocese has Problems

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See this Forum article in the Peoria Journal Star. One of the commenters, Celsion, hits it on the head. My experience and my family's ...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Catholic Diocese of Peoria in Trouble in the 90's, and "We" Didn't Even Know It

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I found this article in the Chicago Tribune from 2002. So while the Catholic Diocese of Peoria was firing a Notre Dame High School teacher a...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Surrounded by Walls

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My father-in-law, Ed King, and I traveled to Haiti in mid-November. We went down to transport two young women in the Haitian Hearts progra...
Monday, January 05, 2009

Ronald Accepted Today!!

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  Ronald is 16 years old and has been a Haitian Hearts patient for six years. Ronald is an orphan and lives in Port-au-Prince. He was accept...

Diocese Needs Higher Standards

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I am a Catholic. I have had 14 years of Catholic education and have been attending Mass for 55 years. But I don’t trust our Catholic leaders...
Thursday, January 01, 2009

Haitian Hearts, 2009

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Corruption Crisis in Illinois

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The "corruption crisis" in Illinois probably runs south of I-80. Here is an article by the Peoria Journal Star emphasizing that wh...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Beyond Belief

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Haiti had a bad 2008. Maybe next year...

Now Katina....

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When I was in Haiti last month I examined Katina. Katina is sick and needs heart surgery again. OSF in Peoria is rejecting her. She has sick...

Stupid Deaths, by Paul Farmer

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I believe in health care as a human right. I've worked as a doctor in many places, and I've seen where to be poor means to be bereft...

Christmas 2008, by Joe Zelenka

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Christmas 2008 Another year and wondering what the future holds So much to do and accomplish in so little time Will I hear God calling me? W...
Monday, December 22, 2008

I Need To Get Over This

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Heurese is doing well after her surgery. As readers of this blog know, Haitian Hearts started on the “Heurese project” in the middle of this...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

Hiding News is Not Good

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The Journal Star published this editorial on December 15. If the Journal cannot send reporters to Darfur, that is understandable. But they s...