It's interesting that Casey struggled with foreign languages in his seminary studies. The same was true of Stanley Rother, the recently beatified Oklahoma priest who was martyred in Guatemala. He was kicked out of the seminary for failing to learn Latin. Happily, he returned and was eventually ordained.

The irony is that, for both these men, their early struggles didn't deter them from being exemplary priests. Once in Guatemala, Fr. Rother actually mastered the complex language of the indigenous people he served, a language much more difficult than Latin. I guess it's all about the motivation.