2025-05-08

White smoke! White smoke!
May 9, 2025 Diocese of Orlando rejoices as Pope Leo XIV offers message of peace, hope, unity for all the Church ORLANDO | Father Phillip Mills was vesting for the celebration of Mass when staff members of St. James Cathedral in Orlando rushed in exclaiming, “White smoke! White smoke!” That exclamation indicated that the conclave of cardinals…

Students shoot for the moon
May 8, 2025 DELAND | Several months ago Embry Riddle Aeronautical University approached Donna Wilkins, a teacher at St. Peter School in where she is also STEM Club director, about applying for a grant to “Build the Moon.” The school won the grant and with little more than a month to accomplish the task, St. Peter students completed…

Morning Star, Bishop Moore unite in championship spirit
May 8, 2025 ORLANDO | Bishop Moore and Morning Star Catholic Schools’ Unified Team won regional and state championships for the first time. Coming together as one, the track and field team is made up of equal students from Bishop Moore Catholic High School and Morning Star Catholic School. Unified events are sponsored through the Florida High School…

Bishop blesses next phase of Our Lady of Peace Cemetery
May 8, 2025 WINTER PARK | As sun shone down over phase two of Queen of Angels Cemetery, Bishop John Noonan, followed by a procession of faithful, staff, and benefactors blessed the property and Marian statues which delineate the four sections surrounding the Rock of Our Salvation Garden. The new phase boasts a committal shelter for services prior…

Two men look forward to a priesthood of hope
May 8, 2025 ORLANDO | On May 24, 2025, Deacon John Triolo of Corpus Christi Parish in Celebration and Deacon William Burns of St. Timothy Parish in Lady Lake, will be ordained to the priesthood at St. James Cathedral in Orlando at 10 a.m. Both men share their journeys and invite all to share in their joy. JOHN…