By Michael Patrick O’Brien– This Halloween, my favorite Catholic cemetery—off the beaten path in rural Northern Utah—has transfigured into a much happier haunt. Pioneer monks from Kentucky’s Gethsemani Abbey (where…
Posts published in October 2025
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The soundtrack of my Notre Dame education—Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run—was released a half century ago in August 1975, well before I knew where I would…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Each October celebration of national book month reminds me that books are some of our most devoted life companions. A relatively new book by a friend…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– In 1949, a New York City lawyer named Porter R. Chandler offered some farm land in northwestern New York State to Kentucky’s Gethsemani Abbey. The constitutional…