By Michael Patrick O’Brien– As a Catholic living in Utah for most of my life, I have come to appreciate many aspects of the dominant local religion, the Church of…
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By Deacon Scott Dodge– (Editorial note: This is an excerpt from a blog that Deacon Scott published in 2016 at Thanksgiving time) It was my plan to post something yesterday…
By Gary Topping– It hasn’t happened since I’ve been the diocesan archivist, but it happened to my predecessor, Bernice Maher Mooney: some guy would become disgruntled with the Catholic Church…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The headlines have been jolting. “Significant drop in Irish numbers of priests” (Irish Times 2016). “Only six Irish sign up for the priesthood – a 222-year-record…
By George Pence (guest contributor)– It is November 16th and our family is still incomplete. We first realized in March that two of our number were missing. Yet so many…
By Jean Welch Hill– As Thanksgiving approaches, I find myself obsessing over my To Do list. The need to make several pounds of gnocchi, get goodies for the family…
By Gary Topping– As anyone who read my blog last week about Christian Science can easily deduce, I am a great lover of what we call Tradition in the Church—the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Sleep eludes us all from time to time. For me, this typically occurs when the stress, worries, and activity of the day seep into the silence…
By George Pence (guest contributor)– My grandmother, Thelma Pence, was a stalwart in a charismatically charged congregation of holy rollers. Yet my parents were more secular people who frequented an…
By Gary Topping– One of my grandmothers was a Christian Scientist. I remember when I was a kid she used to explain it to me and extol its virtues, but…