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Show DIOCESAN ARCHIVES MORMON-CATHOLIC RELATIONS between the Bishop and any of the successors The Church of St. Mary Magdalen, of Brigham Young has ever arisen,” one doubts erected in 1871 on the lot purthat the two men had much to do with one chased by Kelly. The church was another.11 The Mormon prophet was in his located on Second East, between declining years, and the young priest had his South Temple and First South, at hands full trying to provide churches and the east end of Social Hall priests and schools for his far-flung flock, Avenue. scattered from Ogden to Silver Reef. If Scanlan dealt infrequently with Young, dealing with the Mormon people was a daily fact of life. Much of what we know about those relationships comes to us through annual reports submitted by Scanlan, Denis Kiely (now Scanlan’s vicar general), and the archbishop of San Francisco, Joseph Sadoc Alemany, to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, an organization of French laypeople upon whom the tiny Utah Catholic population largely depended for financial support.12 The reports 11 Intermountain Catholic, May 15, 1915. Although in recent decades the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City has become financially much better off than ever before, it has never been completely independent. During Scanlan's day support came from the Pious Fund, an endowment for missions dating back to the Spanish era, and the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Once profits from Utah silver mines began to roll in around the turn of the twentieth century, the church benefited from the fact that some of the wealthiest miners were Catholics, and Scanlan tapped some of those fortunes for special projects like the Cathedral of the Madeleine and St. Ann Orphanage. After the diocese went through some hard times trying to retire its debt in the 1920s and 1930s and having to finance a massive exterior restoration of the Cathedral in the 1970s, the bishops began to see the need for more systematic fundraising efforts. Accordingly, Bishop Joseph Lennox Federal 12 235 |
