Yet Ethan, the lighthouse keeper in Michael O’Brien’s newest novel, whose vocation is to save others from shipwreck, is himself a shipwreck of a man. Childhood abuse and neglect broke him ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Written long before the coronavirus and resulting quarantine made national headlines, bestselling author Michael D. O’Brien’s newest novel, THE LIGHTHOUSE, features Ethan ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The very first biography of one of the most popular Catholic novelists and painter of modern times, Michael O’Brien, is released today from author Clemens Cavallin: ON THE EDGE ...

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 ...

The two books were duly issued under the auspices of the newly formed O’Brien Press. Then things went wrong. “My father dropped dead,” says Michael. “At the time I wasn’t really 100 per ...