After bus crash Catholic Charities offers counseling, necessities as farmworkers recover from injuries
ORLANDO | The eating area of the Days Inn in Gainesville was filled with men, beleaguered by the past days’ events and still stunned by the bus …
Central Floridians celebrate life
ORLANDO | Arriving early as they do every Friday, three women from Resurrection Parish in Winter Garden quietly read Scripture and pray for their children, several of whom are already adults. Recognizing the need to intercede, that all might have …
Shouts for joy on feast of the Immaculate Conception
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS | On Dec. 7, 2023, the community surrounding St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Altamonte Springs may have noticed an unusual commotion coming from the church. The rattle of nearly 300 noisemakers and the joyous shouts of parishioners filled …
A community comes together to fight cancer
LEESBURG | When Lena took her 13-year-old daughter, Haley, to the doctor Oct. 11, 2023, she had no idea their lives would change overnight.
After several tests and a trip to Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Haley was diagnosed with acute …