By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, but also pledge loyalty to the worldwide mission statement of their founder.…
Posts published in July 2021
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My paternal grandfather, whom I never knew, was a writer too. When I finally read some of his writing, I discovered we share a conversational style…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– When I was a young boy growing up at the old Trappist monastery in Huntsville, Utah, my family and I often attended the last monk chant…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– In our internet-fueled, twenty-four-hour-news-cycle, social-media-meme-dominated, attention-deficit-disordered world, we often are attracted more to form than to substance. For example, consider the way we treat the name…