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The Catholic Diocese of Peoria has backed off a proposal to close Holy Trinity Church in Bloomington, relieving several community members who submitted a lengthy report in the hope the proposed closure would be reversed.
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Since the Peoria Catholic Diocese's announcement in October, hundreds of Holy Trinity parishioners have pushed back against the potential decision, putting their names on a petition for the diocese to reconsider its plans.
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The City of Bloomington is paying attention to the potential closure of Holy Trinity Catholic Church at the north end of downtown, after the Catholic Diocese of Peoria recently released a proposal to shutter the landmark building and merge the Holy Trinity parish with another.
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Young-adult Catholics celebrated the opening of their expanded Newman Center near Illinois State University on Sunday, even as their church leaders continue consolidation planning that could lead to the closure of Bloomington’s Holy Trinity Church.
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The Catholic Diocese of Peoria is asking parishioners to weigh in on potential models for restructuring. The Diocese says there are too few priests to staff the 150 parishes, and in about a decade, almost a third of the priests in the diocese will be age 70 or older.
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Catholic dioceses in Illinois failed to disclose hundreds of abusive clerics before the state opened what would become a yearslong investigation into sex abuse within the church, Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Tuesday.
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In the second part of an in-depth interview with WCBU, Bishop Lou Tylka assesses his first year as the leader of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria.
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Catholic Diocese of Peoria Bishop Lou Tylka is overseeing a process to examine a decline in parishioner numbers coupled by a shortage of priests.
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Bishop Louis Tylka succeeded longtime Peoria Catholic Diocese Bishop Daniel Jenky on March 3. The start of Tylka's tenure coincides with the 2022 season of Lent.
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The Catholic Diocese of Peoria will be closing its schools next week, including Central Catholic High School and Corpus Christi and St. Mary's grade…