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Torn by Catholic abuse scandal, Utah attorney remembers the monks who mentored him, helped him and saved him

Giving peace a chance, Michael O’Brien recalls his walks up “Abbey Road” to a mountain monastery in Mormon Utah.

(Lynn R. Johnson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Monks at Our Lady of the Holy Trinity Abbey concelebrate the 6:25 a.m. daily Mass in the monastery's main chapel in 1997. Salt Lake City attorney Michael O'Brien has written a memoir of his boyhood interactions with the monks.