Through the Years

A look at news stories from the "Intermountain Catholic" archives.

5 YEARS AGO: Franciscan Sister Gloria Olguin, 82, was feted at a retirement reception at Ogden Regional Medical Center on March 5, 2008. She entered Saint Francis Convent in New York in 1942; she was sent to Utah in 1990, where she worked as a hospital chaplain at St. Benedict’s Hospital (later Ogden Regional.)

10 YEARS AGO: The new Stations of the Cross at Saint Mary of the Assumption Church in Park City, hand-carved by Polish folk artist Boleshlaw Parasion, were blessed March 2, 2003. For the upcoming Lenten season the parish prepared a special meditation on the Stations, which took four years to create. Each Station is a triptych that, when closed, shows an Easter image but, when opened, reveals a depiction of one of the steps of the Passion of Christ.

25 YEARS AGO: The "Intermountain Catholic’s" March 4, 1988 issue introduced a page of Spanish-language news for readers, to be run weekly. "We pray for open hearts and minds as we begin this endeavor," wrote Editor Catherine Faggella in the front-page article announcing the Spanish page, which included local, national and world news.

50 YEARS AGO: The March 15, 1963 "Intermountain Catholic" reported that "The Catholic Church has been in Utah only since the last quarter of the last century," but since that time, the vocations from the state numbered 34 priests and 91 sisters, including Bishop Robert J. Dwyer, D.D., PhD., who served as Bishop of Reno from 1952 to 1966 and Archbishop of Portland, 1966-1974. He was the first native Utahn to be ordained a priest for the Diocese of Salt Lake City.

75 YEARS AGO: The Very Rev. Msgr. Michael F. Sheehan, vicar general of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, was "elevated to the rank of a Protonotary Apostolic, the highest of the three orders of honor that Monsignors of the Church may receive," according to the March 20, 1938 Intermountain Catholic edition of "The Register." Msgr. Sheehan was the first priest of the Diocese of Salt Lake City to receive this rank, the paper reported.

100 YEARS AGO: "The annual St. Patrick’s day concert at the Salt Lake theatre Saturday night was an unprecedented success," according to the March 22, 1913 "Intermountain Catholic," which included a three-column photo of a group of children who appeared at the concert from the Kearns’ St. Ann orphanage. "It was an affair of exceptional merit throughout and unbounded credit is due those who labored so long and faithfully in preparation for the event.... The little children from the Kearns St. Ann’s orphanage, of whom there were more than 100, acquitted themselves with great credit. This also is to be said of the little folks from the parish." Mrs. Edward McGurrin played "The Harp That Once Tho’ Tara’s Halls," "I and My Father-in-Law" was the title of a dramatic reading by Miss Pluma Purcell, and P.P. Grady, a baritone, sang two numbers, "Minstrel Boy" and "Believe Me." The article also noted that Bishop Lawrence Scanlan attended the concert even though he had just returned that morning from an extended visit in Arizona.