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…
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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…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– After my recent visit to England, and particularly the Tower of London, a friend shared with me an excellent book called “The Life of Thomas More”…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” – A Tale of Two Cities (1859) I first read the classic, opening lines…
By Gary Topping– Scholars think the Book of Job is the oldest book in the Bible, based on the lack of any mention of the Mosaic law or the historical…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– One warm summer day in 2011, I visited two old stone churches that stand adjacent on a hill in Omagh, Northern Ireland. For many years these…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My royal limousine fifty years ago, for the last blissful, carefree school year of my childhood, was a dark blue, forty seat, standard-issue, military bus. We…
By Gary Topping– Just when we Catholics were hoping that we might have turned the corner on the gut-wrenching scandal of child abuse among our clergy, along comes the revelation…