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Share this article Share this article PEORIA, Ill., May 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- OSF Innovation and its partners at the University of Illinois College of Medicine  Peoria (UICOMP) and Illinois State University (ISU) in Normal, Illinois, have received a federal Human Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) grant to continue work to expand childhood vaccinations to children of low-income families in Central Illinois.  Recent CDC data shows fewer children were vaccinated on time this year compared to last year, in part, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. HRSA invited grant applicants to ...

New saint a ‘great blessing’ for persons with disabilities, say local advocates A statue of St. Margaret of Castello at St. Patrick Church in Columbus, Ohio. (Nheyob via Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0). By Gina Christian • Posted May 4, 2021 Local disability advocates are hailing the recent canonization of a 14th-century lay Dominican as a “great blessing.” On April 24, Pope Francis declared Margaret of Castello a saint through a process called “equipollent (equivalent) canonization,” which recognizes longstanding devotion to the individual, enduring virtues and a legacy of miraculous ...

BELLEVILLE — A patient claims she suffered a perforated eardrum during an ear irrigation procedure.  Carly Vest filed a complaint April 14 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against St. Elizabeth's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, Linda Pracher, R.N., Barbara Becker, FNP, Kathryn Strope, AGPCNP, Metro East Healthcare LTD., and Linda McCloud, APNP, alleging negligence.  According to her complaint, Vest went to St. Elizabeth's Hospital on Dec. 31, 2018, to seek treatment for ear pain. She claims she was diagnosed with an "impacted cerumen" and underwen...

April 30, 2021 CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis has issued a video message for the beatification of José Gregorio Hernández (1864-1919), a physician and Third Order Franciscan. The Pontiff named the new blessed the co-patron of the Peace Sciences Study Cycle at the Pontifical Lateran University. The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.   Sound Off! CatholicCulture.org supporters weigh in. All comments are moderated. To lighten our editing burden, only current donors are allowed to Sound Off. If you are a curr...

Sei may be oblivious, but she's certainly not stupid. Ever since she discovered what she calls her 1.5 curse – meaning that all potions she makes are 1.5 times more effective than they ought to be – she's had a sneaking suspicion that she might be the Saint. And she's not the only one; her boss at the Research lab, Johann, has been thinking that ever since he realized that she had ludicrous amounts of magic power, and when she healed Albert and proved to be a way-too-quick study with the enchantments, he's pretty well convinced. There's just one problem: Prince Kyle has been trumpeting fa...