By Gary Topping– One of the spiritual beacons for Catholics working in downtown Salt Lake City from 1974-96 was St. Paul’s Chapel, with its associated Paraclete Gift Shop located at…
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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I often often share fond memories in this blog about my old friends, the Trappist monks who lived at the now-closed Abbey of Our Lady of…
By Jean Welch Hill– (Editor note: The Boy Monk blog just celebrated its one year anniversary! In honor of the occasion, and in light of the ongoing scandal afflicting the…
By Gary Topping– (Editor note: The Boy Monk blog just celebrated its one year anniversary! In honor of the occasion, and in light of the ongoing scandal afflicting the Catholic…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor note: The Boy Monk blog just celebrated its one year anniversary! In honor of the occasion, and in light of the ongoing scandal afflicting the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I must admit, as a lifelong Catholic, that I often have rolled my eyes at the notion of keeping and honoring relics. I have thought it…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I was born on a Wednesday and, for some odd reason, I knew that fact at a very young age. As a child, I discovered a…
By Gary Topping– A couple of Sundays ago fellow blogger George Pence and I sat together at Mass listening to the reading from Ephesians 5 where St. Paul admonishes wives…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– As a Catholic living in Utah, I know many people who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church does not have…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– As I stepped out of our upstairs, two bedroom apartment on a cold, overcast morning in 1974, I had no inkling I was about to learn…