By: Paul Moore - November 25, 2024 -
Featured Article, Local News Brief, News Article
Bob Vogelbaugh, “Mr. Thanksgiving” stands with a group of the Seton Catholic School students in Moline who fundraised $1,600 to help save the Thanksgiving community meal he founded. (Lindsey Honert/Seton Catholic School)
MOLINE – Bob Vogelbaugh started hosting a Thanksgiving meal for the community 54 years ago in 1970. Since COVID, it’s been a drive-through. Although as a former grocery store owner Voglebaugh – aka “Mr. Thanksgiving” – certainly appreciated the importance of the food, he also believed strongly that Thanksgiving was about people breaking bread together. […]
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By: Paul Moore - October 9, 2024 -
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Jeanne Whalen, former family life director for the Diocese of Peoria, is seen witnessing at Life Chain outside the Planned Parenthood facility in Peoria. Earlier, she had contacted the facility posing as a 16-year old girl, and had been supplied with information. The Catholic Post Online/Paul Thomas Moore
Now more than ever, prayerful witness is required in support of the culture of life. That was the message that came through “peaceful and clear” across the Diocese of Peoria during the 37th annual Life Chain on Respect Life Sunday, Oct. 6. In Peoria, Life Chain participant Jeanne Whalen, former director of family life for […]
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By: Paul Moore - October 8, 2024 -
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The fourth annual Spirit of Hope Mass and Concert for Cancer was celebrated on Saturday, Oct. 5 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria. The Spirit of Hope Mass for Cancer stemmed from a suggestion made to Bishop Louis Tylka by Dr. James McGee, founding director of the OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute, to offer a special […]
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By: Paul Moore - September 25, 2024 -
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Philip and Bernadette (Brophy) Stickelmaier, celebrating a golden anniversary in 2024, renew their wedding promises at the 25th and 50th Anniversary Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral on Sept. 22. The Stickelmaiers were the last couple married in the old St. Patrick's Church on the south side of Peoria. The Catholic Post Online/Paul Thomas Moore
In his homily at a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Sept. 22 for couples from across the Diocese of Peoria whose 25th or 50th wedding anniversaries fall in 2024, Bishop Louis Tylka spoke of a short holiday he had taken over the Labor Day weekend in Arizona. Among the old friends he visited was […]
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By: Paul Moore - June 24, 2024 -
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Priests celebrating significant milestones of priestly service and fellow priests gathered in support of them concelebrate with Bishop Louis Tylka at the annual Jubilarian Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria on June 20. The Catholic Post Online/Paul Thomas Moore
It’s an occasion where the priests of the diocese gather to celebrate their brothers who have reached significant milestones of priestly service. On Thursday, June 20, at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria, they celebrated the best way they know how — by breaking the “bread of angels” as one of the hymns at the Jubilarian […]
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