’92: The Striped Sari Comes to Brooklyn
August 23, 2016It was in 1992 when Father Joseph Nugent spoke with Mother Teresa and asked her to send sisters who would work with […]
Topic: Canonization
Local Reaction On Blessed Mother Teresa
August 18, 2016Tim Harfmann reports from Gravesend, Brooklyn, where he gets reaction from a local Albanian about Blessed Blessed Teresa. The Albanian-born nun will […]
Remembering St. John Paul II in Brooklyn and Queens
April 27, 2016On the second anniversary of the canonization of the “people’s pope,” follow the steps of St. John Paul II in Brooklyn and […]
Times Slams Saint Serra
October 8, 2015The Catholic League is demanding a response after the New York Times, in a front page article, claims historians agree that the […]
Dorothy Day’s Granddaughter Continues Mission
September 17, 2015Dorothy Day is one of the founders of the Catholic Worker Movement, which ministers to people on the margins of society. Currents […]
A Canonization With Controversy
August 10, 2015California’s soon-to-be first saint, Blessed Junipero Serra, doesn’t come without controversy. To some, Serra embodies the system that promoted massive cultural genocide. […]
Therese’s Parents Will Soon Be Saints
March 4, 2015The Vatican has announced that the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux will be canonized. Currents correspondent Katie Breidenbach has more on […]
Oscar Romero a Victim of El Salvador’s Bloody Civil War
January 9, 2015Currents correspondent Michelle Powers speaks with a Maryknoll nun who survived the violence in El Salvador.
Celebrating St. Chavara
December 8, 2014Currents correspondent Katie Breidenbach reports from a Thanksgiving Mass at St. Anthony-St. Alphonsus Church in Greenpoint for one of the Church’s newest […]
Fulton Sheen Sainthood Cause Suspended
September 4, 2014Currents correspondent Katie Breidenbach reports on the latest controversy in the cause of beloved priest and media personality, the late Archbishop Fulton […]