May 25, 2023 Former inmate gets a fresh start ORLANDO | A model citizen who worked for 19 years in customer service, Tabbatha Beedy fell on hard times. After being severely battered by a boyfriend, she set off on a dangerous course of drug abuse to deal with the trauma. She ended up on the streets and eventually…

May 25, 2023 My Sisters and Brothers in Christ: The apostles and people who came to believe in Jesus were very different. Some were fishermen or tent makers or shepherds; some were without any sufficient financial means; some were educated, some not. Jesus did not come to change them to be the same person. He loved them as…

May 25, 2023 SAVANNAH, GA | Ordained the same day in the same place, 25 years ago, Bishop Stephen Parkes and Father Miguel González hoped to celebrate their silver anniversaries together. On May 23, 2023, that wish came true at the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist in Savannah, Georgia. Asking Father González to deliver the homily…

May 25, 2023 Madeline R., Father Lopez Catholic High School, Daytona Beach Madeline R. is a supernatural volunteer. Leigh Svajko, president of Father Lopez High School in Daytona Beach, describes the graduating senior as “a stellar student, but her most notable quality is her faithfulness.” She qualified that statement underscoring the young woman’s work at the Basilica of…

May 25, 2023 ORLANDO | Bishop Moore Catholic High School students are living out Pope Francis’ urge to care for creation. While planting mangroves on campus, they are planting seeds of faith. The environmental project began in 2022 when former biology teacher Jessie Copertino took the words of Pope Francis, to confront “the double crisis of climate change…