Michael D. O'Brien is a Canadian Catholic author, artist, essayist and speaker on faith and culture. He and his wife Sheila live near Combermere, Ontario, and they have six children and eight ...

O’Brien (A Cry of Stone) takes his readers on an improbable ride, which is his intent. Canadian Alex Graham, a devout Catholic who is still grieving the death of his wife years before ...

For Michael O’Brien, the 71-year-old Catholic Canadian painter, writer of icons and writer of novels,and works of nonfiction, human suffering is at the heart of his art — a condition to be ...