By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I must admit, as a lifelong Catholic, that I often have rolled my eyes at the notion of keeping and honoring relics. I have thought it…
Posts published in September 2018
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I was born on a Wednesday and, for some odd reason, I knew that fact at a very young age. As a child, I discovered a…
By Gary Topping– A couple of Sundays ago fellow blogger George Pence and I sat together at Mass listening to the reading from Ephesians 5 where St. Paul admonishes wives…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– As a Catholic living in Utah, I know many people who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church does not have…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– As I stepped out of our upstairs, two bedroom apartment on a cold, overcast morning in 1974, I had no inkling I was about to learn…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– After my recent visit to England, and particularly the Tower of London, a friend shared with me an excellent book called “The Life of Thomas More”…