ROME | As the sun rose over St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome All Saints’ Day, I joined thousands of fellow Catholic educators in celebrating the Eucharist with Pope Leo XIV.
We were pilgrims who had traveled from the far reaches …
Parish sends three youth to canonization
HAINES CITY | On a recent pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi, Father Alfonso Cely found himself standing before the tomb of now St. Carlo Acutis.
It was late August and Father Cely, pastor of St. Ann Parish in Haines City, …
Polk grad attends Jubilee of Seminarians
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 …