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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY — Each year during Lent, those who are preparing to enter the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Salt Lake City celebrate the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion, during which the bishop publicly acknowledges God’s work in them, and names them as members of the Order of the Elect (candidates for baptism and full communion). During the ceremony, the catechumens inscribe their names in the Book of the Elect. They now will complete their preparations for the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist, which they will receive at the Easter Vigil. The candidates for full reception, because they have already been baptized, prepare to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation and, at the vigil, will make a profession of faith, be confirmed, and receive the Eucharist.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
A rally at the Utah State Capitol March 5 urged legislators to pass the proposed Healthy Utah legislation, which was supported by the Senate but not by the House of Representatives, which March 4 passed a separate bill.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY — Westminster College will present Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, author of
Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, as part of the Tanner-McMurrin Lecture Series.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
La primera fase del Plan Pastoral de la Diócesis de Salt Lake City esta complete.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
Salt Lake City — Bishop John C. Wester is pleased to announce the appointment of Deacon George Reade as Chancellor for the Diocese of Salt Lake City.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
I have just plowed through the Bible’s first five books, known to most Christians as the Pentateuch or, in the Jewish tradition, the Torah.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
The whole of life is a gift. In all of its beautiful, messy, sometimes seemingly insufferable, sometimes awe-inspiring moments, life is a series of endless opportunities to experience God’s immense love for us. Any or all of these moments of grace are lost if we choose to abort life – either our own or someone else’s – before it is time, including through such proposals as the ill-named Death With Dignity Act being considered by the Utah Legislature.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
The Protestant scholar Paul Minear, in his book
Images of the Church in the New Testament, identifies 96 ways of looking at the Catholic Church. Avery (later Cardinal) Dulles, S.J., (my one-time teacher) in his book Models of the Church shows how very important images are in understanding the Church.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
The 2015 Utah legislative session has been rife with drama. From comprehensive criminal justice reform to the years-long debate over providing health care to low-income Utahns, legislators face many opportunities to improve the lives of our residents, and have had varying degrees of success.
Sadly, at press time Utah House members were still burying their heads in the sand on health care. Despite two years of study, including a state-commissioned analysis by a neutral third party, that all supported providing health care to thousands of low-income working Utahns, several House members were still falling on ideological swords to prevent passage of Healthy Utah.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY — During the Easter Vigil Mass at the Cathedral of the Madeleine, CaLee Przybylski, her husband and four children will be baptized into the Catholic Church. It will be the final step in a journey that began when she was a child, resettling in Utah with her parents and siblings, refugees from Laos.
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