Book: Salt of the Earth, The History of the Catholic Church in Utah, 1776-2007

WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY     (Washington County, Utah)

BOOK

"Salt of the Earth, The History of the Catholic Church in Utah, 1776-2007"

By Bernice Maher Mooney and Msgr. J. Terrence Fitzgerald

Hardback, 391 Pages, 10.25" x 7.25" x 1.125"

Published by
    University of Utah Press
    Salt Lake City UT

First edition, 1987
Second printing, 1992
Third printing, 2008

ISBN 978-0-87480-881-0


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                                                                                                                                                           
    List of Illustrations
    List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
    Forward
    Preface to the Third Edition
    Preface to the Second Edition
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    Genesis, 1776
    Early Christians: The Mountain Men, 1800-1840
    Voices in the Wilderness, 1840-1873
    The Formation of a Vicariate in Utah, 1873-1886
    The Substructure of the New Vicariate: Basic Foundations, 1866-1886
    The Vicariate of Utah and Eastern Nevada Develops into the Diocese of Salt Lake, 1886-1915  
    Diocesan Parishes and Foundations, 1890-1920
    Renaissance, 1915-1926
    Renaissance Parishes, 1916-1925
    Getting the House in Order, 1926-1932
    The New York Connection, 1932-1937
    A Second Building of the Diocese, 1937-1960
    Fifteen Parishes Established by Bishop Duane G. Hunt, 1940-1958
    Bishop Hunt Brings New Foundations to Utah, 1939-1952
    Era of Bishop Joseph Lennox Federal, 1951-1980
    Era of Bishop William K. Weigand, 1980-1994
    Bishop George Niederauer and an Eleven-year Episcopate, 1994-2005
    A Thirteen-month Interregnum and the Arrival in 2007 of Bishop John C. Wester
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    Appendix 1: Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Salt Lake City
    Appendix 2: The Intermountain Catholic
    Appendix 3: Clergy of the Diocese of Salt Lake City
    Appendix 4: Religious Orders of Women, Diocese of Salt Lake City
    Appendix 5: Pastoral Life
    Notes
    Index
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