In Salt Lake City’s early days, Brigham Young once mediated a property dispute between a Roman Catholic priest and another fellow. The LDS Church president sided with the priest and even offered, according to a contemporary newspaper account, to donate $500 for a school and church planned for

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Catholic-LDS relations through the years – warming trend follows a cold war

Those who know Mary Ellen Robertson will not be surprised that she chose “celebrating Mormon women’s contribution” as the theme of her first Sunstone Symposium.

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Emma Smith to ‘Johnny Lingo’ – Sunstone to shine light on Mormon women

Mormons scholars and historians who lobbied to help a Missouri archivist keep his job may have changed his fate. Economic struggles have forced the Independence, Mo.

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Missouri church archivist says Mormons’ support helped save his job