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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.
>>>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.
>>>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.
>>>OGDEN — On Feb. 16, the Lady Jayhawks captured the Girls Basketball 1A State Title for the second year in a row, cementing them a place of pride in the school’s athletic Hall of Fame.
>>>SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Food Bank relies on 57,000 volunteers a year to help sort donated food items for distribution to the local food pantries. During March, Our Lady of Lourdes students, family members and faculty joined together and worked two separate shifts at the food bank warehouse.
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