By Gary Topping– In his typically thoughtful posting this week, Mike O’Brien asks us to consider what to do when bad people produce good things. His primary reference is to…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Many of my favorite life moments played out with Michael Jackson songs in the background. Allegations of his predatory behavior towards children have been around for…
By George E. Pence III– Something we own, is it truly ours? Something we give away, was it ever truly ours to give? I am on the sunny side of…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Thirty years ago this month, a Utah court battle took center stage in the ongoing fight for religious liberty. The case was memorable for many reasons,…
By George E. Pence III– As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace, so in tribulation is the test of the just. Sometimes during the readings…
By Gary Topping– I’d wager that the book of Tobit is one of the least-read books in the Bible. Protestants don’t even have it in theirs, and as little as…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– There is a statue of James Joyce in Dublin, Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize, and Frank McCourt got the Pulitzer. None of those great Irish…
By Don O’Brien (*Blog Editor’s note: this article was first published in the Burlington Free Press on 3/17/1950.) ’Tis a curious tale the White Thatch has for you this day…
By Gary Topping– Like many Americans, I was transfixed recently by Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee. I didn’t listen to the live testimony as my wife and…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Lent, at least as I always have understood it, is the season of penance and forgiveness. During Lent 2018, Pope Francis reminded us, “God’s forgiveness is…