Tuesday Tapestry

Our Lady of Perpetual Help

We had a marvelous celebration of the Eucharist at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Kearns Sunday. This predominantly Vietnamese community welcomed me warmly as they presented me with twenty-eight candidates for confirmation. In addition, we welcomed in the Year of the Tiger, asking God to bless us and to grant us peace and growth in the new lunar year.

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Catholic Business Network

The leadership of the relatively new Catholic Business Network met with me last Saturday to review their goals and objectives. >>>

PARA program

I was pleased to attend several basketball games last Saturday, sponsored by our very own Parish Athletic Recreation Association (PARA). >>>

Catholic Utah Now

As many of you know by now, we have Catholic radio here in the diocese under the banner of Immaculate Heart Radio. KIHU (Immaculate Heart Utah) has been broadcasting for several months now. >>>

Diocesan Council of Catholic Women

We are blessed to have a chapter of the National Council of Catholic Women in our diocese, headed this year by Cheryl Johnson >>>

Diocesan Pastoral Council

Probably the reader knows about his or her parish council but did you know that the diocese also has such a council? We do! >>>

St. Thomas More Society

We had a good meeting of the executive committee of the St. Thomas More Society several weeks ago in the law offices of Ron Yengich. >>>

Haiti Relief

I am profoundly grateful to our wonderful people in the diocese who have donated more than $200,000, as of this writing, to the Haiti Relief Fund. >>>

Postcard Campaign for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Many thanks to the thousands of you who signed postcards to our legislators in Washington, D.C., calling for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. The Catholic bishops of the United States have been calling for immigration reform for quite some time now. In June of 2007 we almost made it but things unraveled as the bill lost bipartisan support. Many believe that we have another opportunity to accomplish this elusive goal and, to that end, many of us in the diocese signed postcards to our senators and representatives in Washington, asking them to recommit to this important issue now.

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Catholic Schools Week

Many thanks to so many of you who made Catholic Schools Week such a success in our diocese. >>>