Hey, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Catholic talk show. Today, we're going to be talking with Bishop Felipe Estevez.

That's right. We're honored to have the Bishop here in the studio and Father Rich is Bishop.

And we're going to talk about his fascinating journey from Cuba to the seminary and all over the world and ultimately as the Bishop of St. Augustine.

And when you think of why I'm on your YouTube channel or why I'm even into all of this, it's all because Bishop Estevez put this into motion a number of years ago.

And we've been looking forward, Bishop, to having you on the show. So welcome. Thank you.

All right. This is our second conversation with the Bishop and this is our first conversation with the Bishop in the studio.

So we're really grateful that you made some time to come by and see us in the studio. And we've got a great conversation here.

I'm really fascinated to hear this. Yeah. No, this is really going to be powerful and really what's great.

The two bishops that we had on the show have also been the rector of the regional seminary of St. Vincent de Paul and Boyton Beach.

So Bishop Tupes was our first and now Bishop in St. Augustine, which is fantastic.

Bishop, truly, we just want to welcome you and thank you. You've been such an inspiration to me.

You installed me as a lector. You know, you called me to orders, which actually just was this past Sunday, the anniversary of Pope Francis's election.

And, you know, you're here now and what a beautiful, what a beautiful week to have you come into the studio and to share your testimony of faith with us because you've had really a beautiful journey in Christ.

And you've offered so much to the Church of Florida and beyond for sure. So Bishop, welcome. Oh, well, thank you.

So, you know, I think it's really an excellent thing. Number one, to have the bishop here, but also for the leniency that you allow me and him to come into your diocese and do this.

Bishop is merciful. We want to thank you personally for that and allowing us to do that here. We hope that we're representing well.

But Bishop, tell us a little bit about, you know, your story. Where, you know, where, where were you born? Where'd you grow up? And because that's a really fascinating thing that I was that Father Rich has been telling me about for a long time.

And then I read into it a bit more and I was really enthralled with it. Yes, I was born in Havana and my childhood was a happy life with my family.

I had a sister, a brother. And during my adolescence, there was a dictatorship in Cuba, Batista. And there was a lot of oppression.

And there was a lot of tension. And so a revolution came about, which everybody thought would be hopeful.

A kind of a good revolution of democracy, in fact, that was promised that it would be a democratic regime.

But regretfully, a few years after, in fact, a couple of years after, it turns out, it became a line to Marxist and Leninist framework.

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