St. Anthony Messenger

March 2020

Dear Reader: Guideposts along the Way

Susan Hines-Brigger

Years ago, when I traveled to Ireland with my dad, we both quickly realized, though, that our across-the-ocean perspective of this beloved saint wasn't the full story.

Person standing in front of a grave with flowers

A Deep Wound

Pat McCloskey, OFM

How could God take my precious son at age 43 and yet allow rotten people who have stopped believing in God to keep on living? My son was a great Catholic and spent eight years in Catholic schools.

Imagery about the movie Bombshell with three blonde women

Bombshell In August 2015, Fox newscaster Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) becomes ill as she prepares to moderate the Republican debate. Fox News CEO Roger Ailes (John Lithgow), who favors conspiracy theories, thinks she may have been poisoned. Kelly is criticized

Editorial: Follow Your Conscience

Susan Hines-Brigger

Conscience: ". . . a judgment of reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act that he is going to perform, is in the process of performing, or has already completed. In all he says

Praying My Way through Dementia

Gloria Hutchinson

On the day I was diagnosed, I awoke with an old Western song trudging through my head like a covered wagon on a rocky road. "I'm heading for the last roundup, " the singing cowboy mourned.

Mission

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