Health Officials to Americans: Prepare – Don’t Panic – Over Coronavirus
February 27, 2020Currents News Staff President Donald Trump is downplaying the threat of coronavirus in the United States, despite the CDC’s warning the threat […]
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Black History Month: Teaching Catholic Youth How ‘Everybody Belongs’
February 27, 2020Currents News Staff During Black History Month, Currents News is taking a different look at the future of race relations in America […]
Catholic School Uses Science to Show Dangers of Vaping
February 27, 2020By Emily Drooby Students at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn have learned a science lesson — but also a life […]
Religious Education Goes High-Tech in Brooklyn
February 26, 2020By Christine Persichette Through prayer, conversation and a lot of note-taking, on Feb. 25 educators learned how to help children grow in […]
How Catholic Students Learn Confidence Through Comedy
February 26, 2020By Emily Drooby Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School student Kaelyn Bishop would tell you, “I’m very shy and like I don’t speak […]
Presidential Candidates Talk Catholic Issues, Professions of Faith
February 26, 2020Currents News Staff Looking at the Feb. 25 Democratic debate from a Catholic lens, is Saint John’s University’s political professor, Brian Browne. […]
Pope’s Ash Wednesday Message to Coronavirus Victims
February 26, 2020Currents News Staff As a precaution amid the coronavirus epidemic, the Holy Father’s Ash Wednesday General Audience was held outside in St. […]
Around the World, Coronavirus Pushes Mass Online, Cancels Ash Wednesday
February 25, 2020Currents News Staff Catholic churches around the globe are taking major precautions amid concerns for the coronavirus. In Hong Kong, churches are […]
Coronavirus Expected to Spread to the U.S.
February 25, 2020Currents News Staff “Prepare for the expectation that this is going to be bad.” Those words came Feb. 25 from the CDC’s […]
Local Nigerian Catholics Honor Holy Family’s Flight to Egypt
February 25, 2020By Jessica Easthope and Melissa Enaje EAST NEW YORK — The Nigerian Igbo community celebrated its annual remembrance of the Holy Family’s flight […]