By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My fate, it seems, is that about every fifty years, someone will up and yell at me in church. The second to last time was when…
Posts published in April 2019
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Easter is delightful but mystifying. It celebrates a wonderful event, resurrection, that I’ve never seen. With no personal knowledge of resurrection, each Easter season I try…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– As devoted lifelong Catholics, my family and I had witnessed all the events of Holy Week and Easter, but never anything like an actual funeral procession…
By Gary Topping– Passover occurs this week. The story of the Exodus is one that has captured the imagination of millions of people over many centuries. It has everything about…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I think religious art often touches our souls because it reveals truths about both the divine and the human. The Pieta at St. Peter’s Basilica, for…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– A couple of times each year in the 1960s and early 1970s, usually for back-to-school, Christmas, or Easter shopping, my small town family would journey to…
By Deacon Scott Dodge– Too often we are sentimental about our faith, about what it really means at its deepest level. Our sentimentality spells dire consequences for how we use…
By Gary Topping– In his typically thoughtful posting this week, Mike O’Brien asks us to consider what to do when bad people produce good things. His primary reference is to…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Many of my favorite life moments played out with Michael Jackson songs in the background. Allegations of his predatory behavior towards children have been around for…