Richard Beyer

Fr. Richard J. Beyer (1949–2018) served in many parishes as both assistant pastor and pastor. For more than seventeen years, he worked as a clinical chaplain at the Doris Miller Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Waco, Texas, specializing in PTSD, addiction treatment, intensive care, mental health, blind rehabilitation, hospice, and senior care.

Beyer earned a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and religion from St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, and a master of arts degree in theology from the St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Beyer wrote Medjugorje Day by Day during a six-month sabbatical in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.