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Intermountain Catholic summer schedule

The Intermountain Catholic is now on its biweekly summer schedule. We will publish July 19, Aug. 2, Aug. 16 and Aug. 30. There will be no paper July 12 or 26, or Aug. 9 or 23. We wish you a blessed summer.

Senate passes immigration bill

SALT LAKE CITY — The United States Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill June 27 with a 68-32 vote, with support from Utah Senator Orrin Hatch. That afternoon, hundreds of people gathered at the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building in downtown Salt Lake City for a prayer vigil in thanksgiving, to support immigration reform as it heads to the U.S. House of Representatives for a vote.

El Intermountain Catholic entra en su horario de verano

If you had to live in the city dump, wouldn't you try to flee, too?

Last week, the Senate passed an immigration reform bill that, if enacted by the full Congress, will provide a path to citizenship for many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living and working in the United States. Before that can happen, the House of Representatives must pass a bill as well. As the bill wends its way through the process, a key question continues to be ignored: why people risk arrest, detention and deportation to come across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Immigration bill passes the U.S. Senate, moves to an uncertain fate in House

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The diverse coalition of faith, labor, business and civil rights activists who are trying to rework the nation’s immigration system celebrated the June 27 Senate passage of a massive reform bill.

Statement by Bishop Wester on SB 744

Bishop Wester's statement on the DOMA decision

The Supreme Court’s decision regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is disappointing.

Bishops: A 'tragic day for marriage'

WASHINGTON (CNS) — U.S. Catholic bishops said the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 26 rulings on same-sex marriage were a "tragic day for marriage and our nation."