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Friday, Jan. 16, 2015
Archbishop Chaput at BYU - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia will speak at noon on Jan. 23 in Brigham Young University’s Varsity Theatre. His topic will be “Magna Carta at 800: Why It Still Matters, Here and Now.” As a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe, Archbishop Chaput was the first Native American to be ordained an archbishop and only the second to be a bishop in the United States. An author, his publications include an e-book, “A Heart on Fire, Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life,” and “Living the Catholic Faith: Rediscovering the Basics.” The Jan. 23 presentation, part of BYU’s “Lectures on Faith, Family, and Society” series, is free and open to the public.
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Friday, Jan. 09, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY — Monsignor Matthew O. Wixted was recalled as a tremendous priest who had a wonderful sense of humor but who was a terrible poker player, during funeral services Jan. 4-5.
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Friday, Jan. 09, 2015
In his writings on the Eucharist, Saint John Paul II often spoke of two tables that are involved in the celebration of Mass – the Table of the Word of God, where the scriptures are broken open for us, and the Table of the Bread of the Lord, on which the bread and wine are consecrated. It is from the Table of the Word of God that we receive the life-giving Word of God that sparks a burning hunger for Christ and prepares us to receive the life-giving Body and Blood of Christ.
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Friday, Jan. 09, 2015
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Friday, Jan. 09, 2015
Over the course of the past year, I met many people who reaffirmed my belief that immigration is one of the most pressing issues in the world today. At the U.S.-Mexico border, men and women shared their tales of desperation with me and my brother bishops at a soup kitchen in Nogales. These brothers and sisters had walked for days in the heat of the Sonoran desert, seeking a promised land. Instead, they found border patrol agents and a bus trip back to poverty and violence.
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Friday, Jan. 09, 2015
If you thought moving the Utah State Prison was controversial, just wait and see how welcoming communities are to proposed new facilities for the homeless in their neighborhood. In fact, a recent informal radio poll showed people would rather have the prison in their backyard than a homeless shelter – prisoners are behind bars, after all.
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Friday, Jan. 09, 2015
I had an epiphany on Christmas Day. Not an angels-blaring-trumpets revelation, but the quiet kind that I usually miss when God speaks because I’m so busy telling him what he’s NOT doing that I miss what he is actually up to.
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Friday, Jan. 09, 2015
The Catholic Church, in the form of two women’s religious orders, has played a vital role in the history of health care in Utah. That history occurred in two phases, both caused by a rapid influx of non-Mormon immigrants that overtaxed existing public health-care facilities. The first wave took place in the 1870s, when railroad workers and miners flooded into the territory and the Holy Cross Sisters arrived to create Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City and, briefly, St. John’s Hospital in Silver Reef.
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Friday, Jan. 09, 2015
LAYTON — Paulist Father James DiLuzio will present his Luke Live one-man show at Saint Rose of Lima Parish in Layton Feb. 2-4.
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Friday, Jan. 09, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY — Since the Sisters of Saint Benedict departed from Ogden in 2013, “we certainly feel their absence,” said Father Ken Vialpando, pastor of Saint Joseph Parish. “For every one sister there was, we have to find people to fill in for what they were doing.”
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