Future U.S. Military leaders are among those seeking to “be the light” in a world of confusion, sin, and darkness at the SEEK24 Catholic Faith conference now underway at the America’s Center Convention Complex in St. Louis. The Jan. 1-5 conference, hosted annually by the 25-year-old Denver, CO-based Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), proclaims the theme, “Be the Light,” derived from the words of Pope Saint John Paul II to young people on his 1999 visit to the Mississippi River port city once known as the “Rome of the West” for its large Catholic population: “You are children of the light (cf. Jn 12:36)! You belong to Christ, and he has called you by name.”
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