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Groundhog Theology

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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– It certainly is not scientific, and the resulting meteorological prediction rarely is correct. Still, like you, early each February, I anxiously watch the news to find…

Let’s Be Catholic Missionaries!

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By Gary Topping– Last November on this blog, Mike O’Brien posted a tribute to the Family Home Evening program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons).  He…

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…