By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The Bible is full of beautiful writing, including the poetic image in Isaiah 2:4 about nations beating “swords into plowshares.” As a child of the war-torn…
Posts published in May 2022
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I am not an Italian, nor an opera fan, nor a New Yorker. As a result, one could wonder why in the world I fell head…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I recently cleaned and moved out of my office at the Salt Lake City law firm where I worked for thirty-seven years. As I labored, I…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Most people understand my new book Monastery Mornings (Paraclete Press 2021) as a story about men, specifically Trappist monks and me. They are right. From time…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The Kentucky Derby—both the annual “Run for the Roses” and its home track Churchill Downs— played a vital role in the establishment of the old Trappist…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The University of Notre Dame is 180 years old in 2022. Father Edward Sorin and his fellow Holy Cross priests started the venerable institution near two…