By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Viruses, not victories, define two of my most memorable college football seasons. One is the unusual COVID-19 season of 2020. The other was forty years ago,…
Posts published in December 2020
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My friends, the retired Utah Trappist monks now all living in Salt Lake City, always have understood that not having much money is only one way…
By Gary Topping– None of my readers need to be reminded that our country is beginning to emerge—we hope—from a very difficult period in a variety of ways. My mind’s…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I admit I was not excited about recent reports that—for the first time in 800 years—Jupiter and Saturn will align this December into what is called…
(Note from Gary Topping: The Boy Monk has a very special guest blogger this week: Bishop Duane G. Hunt, who led the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City from…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Good Saint Nicholas, whose feast day we celebrated on December 6, probably is known as the greatest gift giver of all time. His little known Utah…