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Help accompany people feeling isolated or facing end-of-life issues
Friday, Apr. 16, 2021
Intermountain Catholic
SALT LAKE CITY – A free virtual training to help people “gain the confidence to journey with those who are suffering social isolation, sick, or dying, to renew their hope and purpose in life” will be offered by the Diocese of Salt Lake City Office of Family Life and the diocesan Respect Life Commission.
“We live in a time of loneliness, of lack of connections, particularly during the pandemic. The elderly in our community have been living in isolation from friends and family for a long time,” said Catherine Stokes, chairperson of the Diocesan Respect for Life Commission. “Speaking with Catholics around the diocese, many have expressed a strong desire to find better ways to reach out to those among us who would like more support.”
Diocese celebrates National Marriage Week by offering online workshop for couples
Friday, Feb. 05, 2021
Intermountain Catholic
SALT LAKE CITY As the pandemic continues to rage, newly married couples may find life especially difficult as they work to forge that new relationship in this strange environment. To address these concerns and well as those of couples with more mature relationships, the Diocese of Salt Lake City is sponsoring a workshop as part of its celebration of National Marriage Week.
The week, Feb. 7-14, is sponsored by the USCCB. The diocesan Respect for Life Commission and the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women are working together on the project.
Posted by Kate, January 18, 2021
Nosy Crow’s tenth anniversary
Ten years ago this month, in January 2011, Nosy Crow published its first book – one of 23 published in that first year of publishing.
We’d actually started with a financial plan and a lot of hope the previous February. Looking back at that plan, it’s interesting to think how much of what we planned and hoped for came true, and is still true. What has stayed the same? What has changed?
The publishing idea has stayed the same… but also been added to. In the plan, we said we would “focus on the publication of books illustrated in colour (picture books and board books) and for younger children (0 to 7), but will also publish novels, but only those for which we can acquire a wide portfolio of rights.” We have, of course, held true to our sense of ourselves as a children’s publisher, and we publish what we’d describe as child-focussed, parent-friendly books for children aged 0-12. In addition to the categ
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