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Fortnight for Freedom: A time for thanks and prayer

People of faith in the United States are blessed. While we face some challenges to our religious practice, our laws and traditions protect us from the more insidious acts of religious discrimination that occur in other parts of the world. During the 2014 Fortnight for Freedom, June 21-July 4, I encourage American Catholics to give thanks for our freedoms and to pray for those who suffer severe religious persecution.  >>>

Need a key to the Trinity? Start with Jesus, the Son

The Trinity is a mystery. (Popular translation: The Trinity is a complicated, inexplicable – and not particularly exciting or even spiritually relevant –doctrine.)  >>>

Fortnight for Freedom daily reflections

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Educational immigration workshop will be offered at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church

SALT LAKE CITY — On Saturday, June 21, Communities United/Comunidades Unidas with ‘Coalición Enriquezcamos a Utah’ are presenting a workshop about immigration and education at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Salt Lake City. >>>

CCS refugee foster children earn high school diplomas; urged to continue their education

SALT LAKE CITY — Without their parents, they flee from war-torn countries, from drought, from death, and yet they are children who, when they come to the United States faced yet another formidable challenge: school, without knowing the English language.  >>>

Kearns-Saint Ann student wins contest, names street sweeper

SALT LAKE CITY — Amou Akot, a first-grade student at Kearns-Saint Ann School, won the South Salt Lake City Public Works’ “Name the Street Sweeper” contest. She was rewarded with a certificate, a gift certificate to Toys “R” Us and the opportunity to ride in the sweeper she named Scrubby in the South Salt Lake City Fourth of July parade.  >>>

Blessed Sacrament School earns 6th National Promising Practice Award

SANDY — Blessed Sacrament fourth-graders created ceiling tiles depicting the virtues of kindness and courtesy, and in the process helped the school win its sixth National Promising Practice Award. >>>

Nuevas Ordenaciones en la Diócesis

El 28 de junio en la Catedral de la Magdalena la Diócesis Católica de Salt Lake City y el Reverendísimo John C. Wester, celebrarán la ordenación de tres hombres. >>>

'El Reino de Dios vale la pena.... todo por Dios!'

SALT LAKE CITY — Después de 12 años de estudio, misiones y discernimiento, el 28 de junio el diácono Jorge Roldán Sánchez será ordenado como sacerdote en la Catedral de la Magdalena. >>>