By Gary Topping– Any memories I had of my first autumn in Utah—1972—are submerged in my recollection of the horrendous winter that ensued, when temperatures sank to minus fifteen degrees. …
Posts published in October 2022
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– If my dearly departed Irish Catholic mother was to haunt a place, she’d choose the old Sisters of Mercy convent and boarding school in her hometown…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– During the last few months, I fell up the stairs four different times. I now am working at the office almost full-time again, post-pandemic (hopefully). As…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Dorothy Day, perhaps the greatest Catholic women of the twentieth century, came to Utah fifty years ago. Both went to the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Catholic monasteries are known for many interesting and wonderful things, but probably not for their pumpkins. That all may be about to change, thanks to some…