By Jean Welch Hill– (Editor note: The Boy Monk blog just celebrated its one year anniversary! In honor of the occasion, and in light of the ongoing scandal afflicting the…

By Gary Topping– (Editor note: The Boy Monk blog just celebrated its one year anniversary! In honor of the occasion, and in light of the ongoing scandal afflicting the Catholic…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor note: The Boy Monk blog just celebrated its one year anniversary! In honor of the occasion, and in light of the ongoing scandal afflicting the…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I must admit, as a lifelong Catholic, that I often have rolled my eyes at the notion of keeping and honoring relics. I have thought it…

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…

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…