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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
The whole of life is a gift. In all of its beautiful, messy, sometimes seemingly insufferable, sometimes awe-inspiring moments, life is a series of endless opportunities to experience God’s immense love for us. Any or all of these moments of grace are lost if we choose to abort life – either our own or someone else’s – before it is time, including through such proposals as the ill-named Death With Dignity Act being considered by the Utah Legislature.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
The Protestant scholar Paul Minear, in his book
Images of the Church in the New Testament, identifies 96 ways of looking at the Catholic Church. Avery (later Cardinal) Dulles, S.J., (my one-time teacher) in his book Models of the Church shows how very important images are in understanding the Church.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
The 2015 Utah legislative session has been rife with drama. From comprehensive criminal justice reform to the years-long debate over providing health care to low-income Utahns, legislators face many opportunities to improve the lives of our residents, and have had varying degrees of success.
Sadly, at press time Utah House members were still burying their heads in the sand on health care. Despite two years of study, including a state-commissioned analysis by a neutral third party, that all supported providing health care to thousands of low-income working Utahns, several House members were still falling on ideological swords to prevent passage of Healthy Utah.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY — During the Easter Vigil Mass at the Cathedral of the Madeleine, CaLee Przybylski, her husband and four children will be baptized into the Catholic Church. It will be the final step in a journey that began when she was a child, resettling in Utah with her parents and siblings, refugees from Laos.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY —At the 19th annual Diocesan Science Fair on Feb. 21, the Young Scientist of the Year award was presented to Constance Viollet, an 8th-grade student at J.E. Cosgriff Memorial School in Salt Lake City.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
SANDY — Blessed Sacrament School held its first Family Literacy Night on Jan. 29, in the school gym. This event was sponsored and executed by members of the School Board, which in the past has hosted a Math & Science Night. This year, the school has adopted the social justice theme of literacy and the right that everyone has to an education. It was decided that a Family Literacy Night would tie in with the social justice theme for the year.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY— Third-grade students from Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic School enjoyed an educational field trip to Big Cottonwood Canyon last month. To wrap up their unit on living and non-living organisms, students enjoyed a snowshoe adventure while learning about the Wasatch Watershed and its vital importance in bringing water to residents in the Salt Lake Valley.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
DRAPER — The Saint John the Baptist Elementary School gymnasium was filled, the cheering bounced off the walls, and smiling children clapped as they celebrated the fifth year in a row that they placed in the Top 10 of the annual “Be a Team Player – Read!” Contest, sponsored by the Utah Jazz.
On Feb. 24 the students were honored with a winners’ assembly during which Utah Jazz player Trey Burke visited the school to read to students and play some basketball with them.
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Friday, Mar. 06, 2015
BOUNTIFUL — With cheers and shouts of excitement, the students of Saint Olaf School welcomed Jazz power forward Trevor Booker to the school as their reward for exceeding their reading goal by 15,000 minutes in the annual Jazz Reading Contest.
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