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Lent prepares us to celebrate the Resurrection

This week we begin the holy season of Lent. Catholics and non-Catholics alike will notice that Lent has begun when they see us walking around on Wednesday with ashes on our foreheads and when they notice that our churches are more somber, with purple vestments and liturgies that are sparse and simple. Alleluias are now muted and church music is stark and even sad. >>>

La Cuaresma nos prepara para celebrar la Resurección

Esta semana comenzamos la temporada Santa de la Cuaresma. Tanto Católicos y como los No Católicos se darán cuenta de que la Cuaresma comenzó cuando esta semana nos vean caminando con las cenizas en nuestras frentes y cuando se den cuenta que nuestras Iglesias tienen menos luz utilizando vestimentas púrpuras y liturgias simples y dispersas. >>>

Marriage from a Catholic perspective

Just as Utah and the United States legal system grapple with the contentious issue of the legal definition of marriage, we in the Catholic Church face a similar struggle with our secular society, one that we cannot yield. While the Church’s teaching on marriage is firmly rooted in Scripture and is based on sound doctrine and sacred tradition, it also is true that God’s love for all his children – not just some – is another teaching that enjoys the same Scriptural, traditional and doctrinal foundations. >>>

Matrimonio desde una perspectiva Católica

Conforme los sistemas legales tanto de Utah como de los Estados Unidos debaten con el polémico tema de la definición legal del matrimonio, nosotros en la Iglesia Católica enfrentamos una lucha similar con la sociedad secular, una que nosotros no podemos ceder. >>>

Different faiths gather to share their musical traditions

SALT LAKE CITY – On Feb. 23, the Interfaith Musical Tribute 2014 took place at the Salt Lake Tabernacle. People of many faiths gathered to celebrate the spirit of unity and cordiality despite the different traditions, languages, beliefs and cultures.

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Is Ash Wednesday still relevant in the 21st century?

Catholics who show up for work after Mass on Ash Wednesday wearing ashes on their foreheads will likely be thought by fellow-workers to be indulging in a quaint and harmless old Catholic practice with not much contemporary relevance.

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Medicaid expansion travesty at the Utah Legislature

SALT LAKE CITY — For months, a Utah legislative task force and gubernatorial work group met to hash out possible options for expanding Medicaid in the state. In the end, the work group had parsed through data, debates, and public comment to reach a consensus on several possible scenarios for providing health care to people living at 100 percent to 138 percent of the poverty line.

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St. Olaf students make bowls for clean water in Kenya

While learning about the African continent, Saint Olaf School second-graders discovered that most African families don’t have running water in their homes and that most villages in Kenya don’t even have a freshwater well. They were shocked to hear that girls their age (6 or 7 years old) have to walk up to 15 miles to a watering hole, fill a bucket, and carry that heavy bucket back to their village. They also learned that many African children their age don’t go to school, not because they don’t want to, but because they don’t have a school building to go to. >>>

Students compete in Diocesan Science Fair

SALT LAKE CITY — From aquaponics to astronomy, 6th-, 7th- and 8th-grade students from all the Catholic middle schools in Utah probed the wonders of the universe and displayed their results at the annual Knights of Columbus Diocesan Science Fair on Feb. 22.

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