Jul 10, 2025 ORLANDO | Imagine being invited to dinner and offered a smorgasbord of delicacies to tantalize your palate. That’s how seminarian Josué Reyes Díaz describes his summer assignment at St. James Cathedral. As he views the cathedral’s many ministries, he is selecting activities to enhance his experience of priesthood. Entering his second year of seminary, known…

Jul 10, 2025 ROME| Sitting in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome awaiting Pope Leo XIV, Thomas Hammen is accompanied by 3,000 seminarians from all over the world. Suddenly one seminarian breaks out in song, “Christus venci, Christus regnat, Christus imperat” (Christ victorious, Christ reigns, Christ rules) and all begin to sing. The sound fills the space like a…

Jul 7, 2025 My Sisters and Brothers in Christ: Within our faith, we associate freedom with the ability to love, as Moses and Jesus speak. Moses said to “return to the Lord with all your heart and all your soul.” Jesus affirms what Moses said and clarifies even further when a scholar of the law said that to…