By Michael Patrick O’Brien– During lunch a few months ago with my friends the Utah Trappist monks, we discussed how the Catholic Church had changed during their long lifetimes. After…
Posts published in February 2022
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My boyhood stomping ground of Ogden, Utah is so far away from Ireland—geographically, culturally, climatically— that I often bemoan what seems to be a chasm sundering…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My dear wife Vicki is one of the kindest persons I know. That’s why I scratch my head trying to figure out why she sets traps…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– When watching the Winter Olympics on television every four years, I try to remember all the hard work that unknown people do behind the scenes to…