Basketball Bishop Visits Seminarians

Tags: Currents Bishop John Barres, Diocese of Brooklyn, Diocese of Rockville Centre, Dunwoodie Seminary, Queens, NY, Sports

During an annual tradition where young men from St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, and the Cathedral Seminary House of Formation, Douglaston, play a competitive game of basketball, Bishop John Barres paid them a visit. The newly installed “head coach” of the Rockville Centre diocese made his first official visit to the Immaculate Conception Center. Tim Harfmann speaks with Long Island’s Catholic leader, who once played on Princeton University’s junior varsity basketball team.