Aug 26, 2025 OCALA | A young girl in her early 20s, Brittney Lavan is the youngest member of the Passport to Success program offered to those in prison desiring to reacclimate when they get out. The program offers spiritual, emotional, and practical help and follows up with participants after their release, providing resources to assist them. Lavan…

Aug 26, 2025 ORLANDO | Her motto, frequently spoken to inspire others is “to work is to pray.” For 64 years, Rita Billingsley, a parishioner of Ascension Parish in Melbourne, has worked and prayed tirelessly for and with women, priests and bishops of the Council of Catholic Women and through, with and for the Church. Billingsley was recognized…

Aug 26, 2025 SANFORD | Franklin Welch is a Navy veteran. Committed and loyal, he took care of his mother until she passed. Battling his own lymphatic cancer, he underwent chemotherapy and nearly died. “I say I’m 7 years old because it was seven years ago. I started over, seriously, from the bone marrow out,” he recalled. A…