Dominican Father James Cuddy spoke at the Ignite Your Torch Catholic Youth Conference.
Glenn Rutherford
About 300 young people attended the 6th annual conference at St. Catharine College
SPRINGFIELD, Ky. — The sixth annual Ignite Your Torch Catholic youth conference was launched July 22 at St. Catharine College with an energetic, entertaining and motivational address from a Dominican priest not so far removed from his own younger days.
Father James Cuddy is chaplain at Providence College in Rhode Island, where he graduated in 1998. He spent a little more than a year in Louisville as a deacon and then a newly-ordained Dominican priest at St. Louis Bertrand Church.
In his presentation, Father Cuddy noted that there were times in his youthful past when he “tiptoed around the house on Sunday morning, thinking that maybe if I didn’t wake my parents, I wouldn’t have to go to Mass.” 