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Now is a great time to be a Catholic advocate!

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By Jean Welch Hill– Now is a great time to be a Catholic advocate! While last year was incredibly disheartening, with federal decisions eliminating or drastically cutting a host of…

Is Poetry More Powerful Than Paralysis?

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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– From my boyhood, for some reason, I remember a poem my mother kept in her prayerbook. It was called “What God Hath Promised,” and was about…

A Memorial to St. Anthony of the Desert

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Gary Topping– Last week, probably unknown to most of us except those who can attend daily Mass, the Church celebrated the memorial of St. Anthony of the Desert. As the…

A Divine Purpose for Whiskey?

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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…

Remembering Gabi- The Angel of Strength and Peace

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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…

Shut Up and Preach

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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…

Some Thoughts on Original Sin

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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…

Information, Experience, and Empathy

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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…

The Magi

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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…