By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The durm and strang of the abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church during the past two decades have caused, unfortunately, some to overlook or…
By Gary Topping– Chimayo is a small village in the New Mexico highlands about thirty miles northeast of Santa Fe. Calling it a village is actually a bit of a…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– After our recent trip to London, I am reading a fascinating book by historian William Manchester about the early life and middle career of Winston Churchill.…
By Gary Topping– In the current issue of America magazine, Fr. Sam Sawyer, S.J. poses the question, “Would Jesus eat with Sarah Sanders”? He is referring, of course, to a…
By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– Rev. Violet Little is Pastor and Founder of The Welcome Church, which serves impoverished people on the streets of Philadelphia. Jathan Janove: Describe your congregation.…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My neighbor Herman Spiegel always seemed like a regular guy. Retired from engineering work, he shot balls into his front yard basketball hoop. He loved to…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– They called her Little Bird. Why? I had assumed it was because cruel fate required that they-her parents and her two younger brothers-tend to her persistently.…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Two Utah monks I knew from the old Huntsville monastery, Father Malachy Flaherty and Brother Nicholas Prinster, recently passed away and each was buried in a…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– In a shady grove at the Shaarey Tzedek (“Gates of Righteousness”) cemetery in the foothills of Salt Lake City, I placed a small red rock on…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Stalker: a person who pursues someone stealthily- http://www.dictionary.com/browse/stalker) I have come to believe it is possible to be stalked and shadowed by someone who has been…