By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My daughter and I recently watched the movie Fiddler on the Roof again. So much has changed, but not changed, since the first time I watched it almost…
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By Deacon John Keyser (Guest Contributor)– The good Samaritan was someone who cared. Blessed are those who care: they will assure others that love can reach even them. Blessed are…
By George Pence– My father passed away last month. While seated next to his bed, and a few hours before his passing, I took this photo of his hand. Next…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Few people get to do something that they love for three decades, let alone do two such somethings. So I feel blessed that I have been…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The Summer of 1979 was alive with news. The first Polish pope went to Poland. Men named Carter, Kennedy, and Reagan battled to be president. Ted Bundy…
By Abbot David Altman, O.C.S.O. (Guest Contributor)– When individuals go into monasteries, they take on much the same identity as the average family: they live by themselves peacefully, sustaining themselves…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– As I was helping find new homes for the last few items from the former Trappist monastery library in Huntsville, Utah, the strangest thing occurred. About…
By Gary Topping– By now summer is fully upon us, and most of us, following a snowy winter and a long, drizzly spring, are breaking out our camping gear and…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien Despite the rather obvious origins of my name, I often dreaded answering the question, “Are you Irish?” Growing up Catholic in Ogden, far from extended family,…
By Gary Topping– Many years ago, a friend of mine spent several months in Mexico City while his wife, a university undergraduate, was on a study abroad program immersing herself…