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Una noche familiar de Fe, diversión y mucha alegría

SANDY- Era una tarde soleada, con un clima perfecto, muchos católicos se reunieron para disfrutar de una velada en familia, pero no en una iglesia como muchos podrían pensar sino en un estadio de fútbol soccer para ser partícipes de un juego muy singular.

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Community garden brings fresh produce, joy to many

SALT LAKE CITY – The community garden at Catholic Community Services’ Weigand Homeless Day Center and Saint Vincent de Paul dining hall has produced not only fruits and vegetables, but also joy and the opportunity to learn a new skill. >>>

Book illustrates joy of the sacraments

SALT LAKE CITY – If you crave the kind of book that keeps you warm on a cold day, try Mitch Finley’s “The Joy of Being Catholic: A Resounding Affirmation of Our Faith.” Here is a celebration of being Catholic that makes us all a “sacrament; a carrier of the creator’s love.” >>>

Saint Andrew Catholic School welcomes PACE teachers

RIVERTON — Teachers from the Pacific Alliance for Catholic Educations (PACE) have served in the Diocese of Salt Lake City since the opening of Skaggs Catholic Center in 1999. In a diocese where there are no Catholic colleges and a small pool of Catholic teachers, PACE has been a real asset to several of our Catholic schools for the past 11 years. >>>

For retired priest, the Mass remains central

SALT LAKE CITY – For many, the dream of retirement includes long, lazy days on the beach in the sun, but that’s not how the golden years are unfolding for Father John Hart, who retired two years ago after 50 years as a parish priest in the Diocese of Salt Lake City. He can be found traveling from his Salt Lake home to Magna, or perhaps to Kanab or Ogden, wherever there’s a parish in need of a priest for a Sunday Mass. >>>

A Knight of Family & Faith, fun and excitement

SANDY- After a very sunny day, a lot of Catholic parishioners gathered to enjoy a good family night, not in a church as one may have thought, but in a soccer stadium to witness a singular match. >>>

New family life center for St. Thomas More Parish

SANDY — Last year during the groundbreaking for Saint Thomas More Parish’s new addition, Father David L. Van Massenhove, pastor, said, “We cannot invite people to join our parish if we do not have anything for them to do, to grow.”
When he arrived in 2002, the parish had about 870 families; today there are about 1,250, he said in an interview Sunday. “We were holding classes in the chapel and in the rectory. >>>

Bishop welcomes people of all abilities at ?Catholics Can' Mass

SALT LAKE CITY — People of all abilities attended the “Catholics Can” Mass at the Cathedral of the Madeline Sept. 4.
Wheelchairs lined both sides of the center aisle of the cathedral for the Mass sponsored by the commission for People with Disabilities. Carol Ruddell, a member of the commission, used sign language and Cecilee Wilson, a closed caption stenographer, typed the words of the Mass on a screen for the hearing impaired. >>>

St. Marguerite Parish breaks ground for new education building

TOOELE – With gold shovels, schoolchildren singing and a Knights of Columbus honor guard, in the presence of Bishop John C. Wester, pastor Father Sam Dinsdale and former pastor Father Matthew Wixted, as well as members of the city council, Saint Marguerite Parish broke ground for the long-awaited Monsignor John Sullivan Education Center. >>>