By Gary Topping– Last November on this blog, Mike O’Brien posted a tribute to the Family Home Evening program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). He…
Posts published in January 2018
By Jean Welch Hill– Now is a great time to be a Catholic advocate! While last year was incredibly disheartening, with federal decisions eliminating or drastically cutting a host of…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– From my boyhood, for some reason, I remember a poem my mother kept in her prayerbook. It was called “What God Hath Promised,” and was about…
Gary Topping– Last week, probably unknown to most of us except those who can attend daily Mass, the Church celebrated the memorial of St. Anthony of the Desert. As the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Growing up around a household with ancestral names like O’Brien, Gleason, Sullivan, McCarthy, Leonard, and Duffy, you might hear, from time to time, someone remark (only…
By Jeffrey Druckman– (Editor’s note: this is a lovely eulogy delivered on January 9, 2018 at Montefiori cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah, for my friend Gabrielle Shulamit Janove, 1985…
By Gary Topping– In the early thirteenth century, St. Dominic received papal approval for a new religious order, the Order of Preachers. Members of the Order were to go about…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– In his 2018 New Year’s Eve homily, Pope Francis said those with the most influence in society are not our national leaders constantly engaged in power…
By Gary Topping– No doubt to the relief of my readers, let me assure them that most of these thoughts are those of St. Augustine, not me, and that I…
By Nick Blaylock– Bill T. Jones, one of the last living pioneers of Modern Dance, visited the University of Utah in the Spring of 2017. The school of dance was…