Sep 6, 2026 Beloved Sisters and Brothers in Christ: As we continue our pilgrimage to heaven, we find ourselves in the ninth month of this calendar year, 2026. Soon, we will be observing Labor Day, Sept. 7, and then the 25th commemoration of terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. When we deliberate about Labor Day or Sept. 11,…

Sep 6, 2026 BARTOW | Father Eugene Grytner, pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, had a vision of adding an Adoration Chapel to the church so people could pray with Jesus all the time. He wasn’t sure it was possible, but he says, “There was God’s finger in it. I never dreamed that it will be, you know, so…

Sep 6, 2026 ORLANDO | Father David Scotchie, pastor of Nativity Parish, blessed a new Allen organ with incense and fanfare Aug. 28, 2026. The evening opened with music by Jennifer Pascual, the organist of with St. Patrick Cathedral in New York City. She played Fanfare for A Common Man in front of an estimated 200 people gathered for…

Sep 6, 2026 LAKE NONA  |  In 2023, the Brazilian Consulate General in Orlando estimated there were around 200,000 Brazilians living in Central Florida, immigrants from the country with the largest Catholic population in the world. However, at that time only one parish in the diocese, Resurrection in Winter Garden, offered Mass celebrated in Portuguese, the official language…

Aug 28, 2026 LAKELAND  |  The Resurrection Catholic School community in Lakeland gathered Aug. 19, 2026, to celebrate the generosity of administrators, current and former parish priests, and many individuals who made extensive campus renovations possible. Bishop John Noonan celebrated the school’s weekly Mass and afterwards, blessed the new buildings. Over two years ago, in May 2024, renovation…

Aug 28, 2026 ORLANDO  |  As another school year begins, students and teachers return to classrooms throughout Central Florida. Lurking in the background is a technology that has the potential to be a disruptive and destabilizing force on the modern education system: artificial intelligence. “Disarming” AI is at the center of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on…