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Friday, Apr. 26, 2013
VATICAN RADIO -- In a press conference on Monday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), said “now is the time” to fix the nation’s broken immigration system.
Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chair of the USCCB Communications Committee, also took part in the press conference. He spoke with Vatican Radio about the principles that should inform immigration reform.Read more and hear the Vatican Radio interview with Bishop Wester at
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/04/26/us_bishops_call_for_comprehensive_immigration_reform/en1-686772
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Friday, Apr. 26, 2013
DRAPER — The Most Rev. John C. Wester, Bishop of Salt Lake City, met with the boys from Juan Diego Catholic High School and Saint John the Baptist Middle School, while Holy Cross Sisters Miriam Joanne Frankenfield, Veronica Fajardo and Patricia Rodriguez from Holy Cross Ministries met with the girls for vocation presentations at the Skaggs Catholic Center April 16.
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Friday, Apr. 26, 2013
DRAPER — El 16 de abril en el Skaggs center, el reverendísimo John C. Wester, Obispo de Salt Lake City se reunió con los alumnos (hombres) de la preparatoria católica Juan Diego y con los estudiantes de la secundaria católica Saint John the Baptist , mientras que las Hermanas de la Santa Cruz Miriam Joanne Frankenfield, Verónica Fajardo y Patricia Rodriguez de los Ministerios de la Santa Cruz de reunieron con las alumnas (mujeres)para dar unas presentaciones acerca de las vocaciones.
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Friday, Apr. 26, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY — As the United States Senate begins hearings on proposed comprehensive immigration reform legislation, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB); Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration; and Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the USCCB Communications Committee, urged legislators to move this issue forward. They spoke during an April 22 teleconference.
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Friday, Apr. 26, 2013
The U.S. Senate immigration bill introduced on April 17 is a welcome start to a discussion that has been stalled on the federal level for many years. Our immigration system is broken. Because of this, children have been separated from their parents, workers abused, and women and children in particular face the horrors of human trafficking. I join my brothers in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and many others throughout the country in commending the senators who brought forth this legislation, and I pray that all the members of Congress will work, in good faith, to craft a humane solution to this problem.
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Friday, Apr. 26, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY — On the heels of the April 17 release of an 844-page bill for federal immigration reform from the bipartisan group of U.S. senators called the "Gang of Eight," the Most Rev. John C. Wester, Bishop of Salt Lake City, joined several other prominent Utahns in commenting on the proposal.
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Friday, Apr. 26, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY — In the tradition of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women annual convention, the Women of the Year were recognized April 20 at a dinner, with the awards presented by the Most Rev. John C. Wester, Bishop of Salt Lake City, and Monsignor Robert Servatius, DCCW spiritual director.
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Friday, Apr. 26, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY — More than 250 Catholic women from throughout Utah gathered at the Sheraton Salt Lake City Hotel April 20-21 to be inspired, educated and encouraged in their faith during the 85th annual Diocesan Council of Catholic Women.
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Friday, Apr. 26, 2013
In 1952, Selma Jockisch debarked from a ship in New Orleans with her husband and 1-year-old daughter. They had spent two weeks crossing from Germany and were supposed to have docked in New York, but a hurricane drove them to New Orleans. The family had lost everything during World War II; both Jockisch’s husband and brother-in-law had spent years in Russian prison camps. A Catholic parish in Saint Louis sponsored their immigration to the United States.
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Friday, Apr. 26, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY — Darin Hathaway, Judge Memorial Catholic High School drama teacher, was named the 2013 UHSAA 3A Drama Coach of the Year during the 3A state high school drama competition at Stansbury High School April 11-12.
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