I had a marvelous experience last week. I found an old college friend and spent an evening catching up. When I say old, perhaps I’m revealing a little too much. Dan and I were classmates at Loyola University in New Orleans in the late ’70s, when each of us was aged about 20. It was 35 years ago,...
After a long drought, St. Anthony Messenger magazine has won the First Place Award for General Excellence from the from the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada. The judging took place during the first half of this year, for issues from 2011. It’s the first time since 1995 that...
We just finished the 2012 World Choir Games, held in the U.S. for the first time ever, an honor indeed for the host city, Cincinnati. We at St. Anthony Messenger knew they were coming, so we set about looking for a choir that might have a Catholic connection. Los Angeles freelancer Maureen Pratt found the...
I’m sitting in what was formerly the terminal of the central train station in Indianapolis, Union Station. I’m at the annual Catholic Media Convention, a get-together for those involved in Catholic communications efforts of every stripe. I’ve been coming to these conventions for many years for St....
I just walked out of the New York Archdiocese office of Cardinal Timothy Dolan. We had about a 45-minute interview about the New Evangelization—you know, that topic that keeps cropping up yet very few seem to understand? We’ll be featuring this in a future of edition of St. Anthony Messenger—timed...
