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Full Text: Msgr. James Shea at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

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Your Eminence, your Excellencies, my brother priests, beautiful religious who are here with us, dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I feel like the luckiest man in the world. I was so scared to get up here and give this talk. I've been really nervous about it for the 20th anniversary of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, with all of you amazing people, in the presence of Congressman Chris Smith who received very worthily the Christi Fidelis Laici award. In the midst of all of that, I've been very concerned.

And then the Vice President of the United States shows up, and I thought, 'Wow, what a relief!' And then... Taylor Swift's boyfriend's teammate shows up, and I felt like no one is ever even going to remember that I was here. All the pressure's off! I can say whatever I want and so I'm feeling nice and relaxed, very happy.

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