Nuns Becoming Rare Sight In Catholic Classrooms
April 30, 2025By Katie Vasquez Sister Gladys Anyanwu gets a warm welcome from her students at St Francis of Assisi Catholic academy. They say […]
Topic: St. Francis of Assisi
Diocese of Brooklyn Students Offer Prayers and Well Wishes for Pope Francis
March 11, 2025By Katie Vasquez Students in the Diocese of Brooklyn are putting pencil to paper to send their prayers to Rome, with love. […]
St. Adalbert’s Church Performs Interactive Christmas Play ‘The Babe of Bethlehem’
December 13, 2024By Currents News Adults and children alike joined together to put on a unique, interactive Christmas play in Elmhurst, Queens called “The […]
During Teacher Appreciation Week, Astoria Teacher Recognized for Going Above and Beyond
May 3, 2021By Emily Drooby At first, school teacher Patricia Cavera was tepid about technology. But she did a complete 360 this year and […]
Pope Francis Urges Human Fraternity Will Lead to Peace in New Encyclical
October 5, 2020By Jessica Easthope and Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Bringing the Vatican official in charge of translations with him, Pope Francis […]
Pope Francis to Sign New Encyclical on Human Fraternity in Assisi During First Trip Since Pandemic
October 1, 2020By Emily Drooby This upcoming weekend, Pope Francis is set to make his first visit outside of Rome since the pandemic put […]
Pope Will Sign New Encyclical in Assisi Oct. 3
September 8, 2020By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis will travel to Assisi Oct. 3 to sign an encyclical on the social, […]
Pope Celebrates Feast of Saint Francis With Pan-Amazonian Representatives
October 4, 2019Currents News Staff To commemorate the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis hosted indigenous representatives from the Amazon region in […]
Pope Francis to Meet With International Scouts
July 29, 2019Currents News Staff About 5,000 scouts from Europe are coming to Rome from July 27 – August 3 to celebrate the international […]
Queens Student Beats Kidney Disease, Family and Community Rally
April 23, 2019By Tim Harfmann Working on fractions in his fourth-grade math class, George Kyriakopoulos looks like your typical nine-year-old — but six years […]