By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Recently I introduced a young friend, a 23 year old man who soon will join a Benedictine monastery, to some of my oldest friends, three Trappist…
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By Gary Topping– The Bible is full of instances of God calling people to a special vocation or to a general reorientation of their life; in fact, it is a…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– It certainly is not scientific, and the resulting meteorological prediction rarely is correct. Still, like you, early each February, I anxiously watch the news to find…
By Gary Topping– Last November on this blog, Mike O’Brien posted a tribute to the Family Home Evening program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). He…
By Jean Welch Hill– Now is a great time to be a Catholic advocate! While last year was incredibly disheartening, with federal decisions eliminating or drastically cutting a host of…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– From my boyhood, for some reason, I remember a poem my mother kept in her prayerbook. It was called “What God Hath Promised,” and was about…
Gary Topping– Last week, probably unknown to most of us except those who can attend daily Mass, the Church celebrated the memorial of St. Anthony of the Desert. As the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Growing up around a household with ancestral names like O’Brien, Gleason, Sullivan, McCarthy, Leonard, and Duffy, you might hear, from time to time, someone remark (only…
By Jeffrey Druckman– (Editor’s note: this is a lovely eulogy delivered on January 9, 2018 at Montefiori cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah, for my friend Gabrielle Shulamit Janove, 1985…
By Gary Topping– In the early thirteenth century, St. Dominic received papal approval for a new religious order, the Order of Preachers. Members of the Order were to go about…