By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: The Boy Monk dedicates its April 2021 blogspace to Utah’s Catholic sisters and nuns.) As a young boy visiting the old Trappist monastery in…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: The Boy Monk dedicates its April 2021 blogspace to Utah’s Catholic sisters and nuns.) I am amazed continually about the wonderful stories of Irish-American…

By Gary Topping– (Editor’s note: The Boy Monk dedicates its April 2021 blogspace to Utah’s Catholic sisters and nuns.) The Sisters of the Holy Cross came to Utah in 1875,…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: The Boy Monk dedicates its April 2021 blogspace to Utah’s Catholic sisters and nuns.) Utah’s Catholic religious sisters and nuns did so many extraordinary…

By Gary Topping– (Editor’s note: The Boy Monk dedicates its April 2021 blogspace to Utah’s Catholic sisters and nuns.) The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City has been remarkably…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: The Boy Monk dedicates its April 2021 blogspace to Utah’s Catholic sisters and nuns.) Utah was blessed for a long time to host two…

By Megan Mary O’Brien (Guest Contributor)– (Editor’s note: this reflection discusses a liturgical dance by the author and by dancer Trevor Wilde performed at Missio Dei in Salt Lake City…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Over the years, I have traveled to Disneyland in California with several very excited people. The most excited one—over three decades ago—was my then almost 60-year-old…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– After watching spring emerge in Northern Utah’s lovely Ogden Valley for almost five decades, I finally witnessed something I had never seen there before—the blessing of…

By Jathan Janove Family rifts are as ubiquitous as they are damaging. In 1971, a spat between my Aunt Inga and her older sister Julie (my mom), effectively ended relations…