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…
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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…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– In his 2018 New Year’s Eve homily, Pope Francis said those with the most influence in society are not our national leaders constantly engaged in power…
By Gary Topping– No doubt to the relief of my readers, let me assure them that most of these thoughts are those of St. Augustine, not me, and that I…
By Nick Blaylock– Bill T. Jones, one of the last living pioneers of Modern Dance, visited the University of Utah in the Spring of 2017. The school of dance was…
By George Pence– A person’s faith is an extraordinary thing, and so often fragile. It is something that exists in a profound way for some, but to others it exists…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I do not make many New Year resolutions, but I am making one for 2018. In my lifetime, I have paid thousands and thousands of my…
By Gary Topping– I’ve posted several times lately about my love for our Catholic Tradition, which is another way of saying our history, our ever-expanding and evolving understanding of the…
By George Pence– Regarding our relationship to the Almighty, I always thought Christians had it easier than Jews. The Jews were like elder brothers, and it was natural for the…