50 years later, remembering visits to Utah by Mother Teresa and Dorothy Day

Iconic Catholic women brought their messages to the former Huntsville monastery and the Beehive State.

(Photo by Bill Barrett, courtesy of Dorothy Day archives at Marquette University.)
Dorothy Day, left, and Mother Teresa meet in New York in 1979.

(Photo by Bill Barrett, courtesy of Dorothy Day archives at Marquette University.) Dorothy Day, left, and Mother Teresa meet in New York in 1979.

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