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Charles Bick Tanner

Salt lake city — Charles (“Chuck”) Bick Tanner, 72, passed away Nov. 13, 2014.  >>>

Catholic Community Services Thanksgiving food drive gobbles up donated turkeys

OGDEN — One thousand three hundred turkeys. >>>

Charles (Chuck) Bick Tanner

Charles ("Chuck") Bick Tanner passed away Nov. 13, 2014. >>>

El retiro de Adviento ayudará 'a que el Corazón esté listo'

SALT LAKE CITY — El Adviento, ese periodo en el calendario de la Iglesia en donde los Católicos se  preparan para la llegada de Cristo, es un tiempo de reflexión en lo inexplicable: la muerte, el juicio final, el cielo y el infierno. >>>

Diocese of Salt Lake City to host year-long devotion for vocations

SALT LAKE CITY — The Most Rev. John C. Wester, Bishop of Salt Lake City, invites the diocese to pray for and to promote vocations to the priesthood, diaconate and consecrated life through 40-hour devotions that will begin Nov. 30, and continue for a year. >>>

Parishes help members of the U.S. armed forces as a way to honor their service

SALT LAKE CITY  — As Veterans Day was celebrated in the United States Nov. 11,  community members all across the country have raised awareness of the needs of the American soldiers. >>>

St. Marguerite Parish history includes benefactor who was a famous speed-typist turned banker

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Our choice should be to live each day with dignity

The recent decision by Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old woman diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, to end her life via physician-assisted suicide in Oregon has brought the discussion of “death with dignity” once again to the forefront. My first response is to offer my deep sympathy and prayers for her and her family as they mourn the loss of their wife, daughter and friend. I can never truly know the trials she and her family faced as she struggled through her diagnosis and symptoms. But along with those sincere condolences, two overarching questions form in my mind: How is choosing to kill oneself a means of preserving our human dignity? And, is there less dignity in choosing to hold onto life? >>>

The key to a 'good' liturgy is good pastoral ministry at every level

One of the mistakes made by clergy and pastoral ministers is in thinking that all the keys to “good” liturgy are to be found within the liturgy itself. We think that if we improve liturgical presiding and homilizing, upgrade the music, have better-trained liturgical ministers, then the liturgy will really be effective.  >>>