Diocesan Updates

FROM THE DESK OF THE VICAR GENERAL AND MODERATOR OF THE CURIA

5/28/20 Prayers For and Gifts in Honor of our Bishop


From the Desk of Bishop Braxton:

5/28/20 Governor Update on Reopening Church

4/14/20 Bishop Braxton's DECREE Delegating Full Christian Initiation to Pastors and Administrators. To read the letter, click HERE

Video message from Bishop Braxton:

4/3/20

Today, the Vatican announced that His Holiness, Pope Francis has appointed The Reverend Michael G. McGovern, S.T.B., M. Div., a Priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, as the Ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Belleville. Click HERE to read the full announcement. 

Please click HERE for the Archdiocese of Chicago news release. 

With the appointment of Bishop-Elect McGovern, there is a change in the Eucharistic prayer in ALL Masses, private or public. Please click HERE to read all changes. 

3/19/20 Letter on COVID19

11/7/19 Inscription of the Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Loreto 
Decree in English or Decree in Spanish

5/31/19 Deacon Ordination

5/20/19 Child Protection Policy