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J.E. Cosgriff students create a Holy Door for their school

eaching the necessity for mercy and compassion to middle-schoolers can be a daunting task, even in a Catholic school. For weeks prior to the start of Pope Francis’s Jubilee Year of Mercy, sixth-grade students at J.E. Cosgriff Memorial School prepared  for the Holy Year by learning more about the pope’s wishes for all Catholics, as well as the symbols on the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.  >>>

Judge Memorial CHS' innovation program allows students to explore entrepreneurship

Judge Memorial Catholic High School teachers recognized that innovation is essential to their students’ future and launched the entrepreneurial experience of the Lassonde Institute into their curriculum in September.  >>>

Our Lady of Lourdes School adds robotics program to enhance STEM education at all grade levels

Students at Our Lady of Lourdes School are building and programming robots in the classroom this year, adding new dimensions to learning and enhancing their technological literacy.   >>>

Saint Francis Xavier School program offers students various leadership opportunities

 In October Saint Francis Xavier Middle School implemented a 36-week leadership institute as a way for the older students to act as the Council of Organization Respect and Equality (CORE) leaders.  >>>

¡Mi Jesús, Misericordia!

Cuando en el noviciado como una hermana joven, recuerdo a una de las hermanas retiradas diciéndome que debía de orar la siguiente oración: “Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, ten misericordia de mi, pecadora”. O el mantra “Mi Jesus Misericordia”. Ella tenia el habito de orarla todo el día. Yo traté pero con un espíritu entonces joven, no entendía realmente su significado. Ahora embarcándonos en el Año de la Misericordia, he decidido regresar a la oración y usarla regularmente durante el año >>>

Year of Mercy Reflection

When I was a young sister in the Novitiate, I remember one of our retired sisters telling me that I should say the following prayer: “Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on me, a sinner,” or the shortened mantra, “My Jesus, mercy.” She made a habit of reciting it all day. I did try to say it but, in my young spirituality, I did not really understand its significance. Now, as we embark on the Jubilee Year of Mercy, I have decided to revive that prayer and use it more regularly throughout the year. >>>

All they had left was ashes: A family loses everything just before Christmas

 A Dec. 15 fire left 10 family members with only the clothes on their backs and a trailer home reduced to ashes.  >>>

Jill Davis Widmer ("Birdie")

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Emma McCornick Bird: Prominent in early Utah's Catholic Church

When writing Catholic history, it is all too easy to fall into the trap of thinking the Church and the hierarchy are one and the same, and that Catholic history is mostly about popes and bishops and Church councils and the like. As a matter of fact, we lay Catholics comprise all but a tiny minority of the Church, and I am always looking for ways to tell our stories. So it is with great pleasure that this month and next I am able to write about not only lay Catholics but lay Catholic women, whose stories are the most neglected of all. >>>