Currents correspondent Katie Breidenbach speaks with Diocese of Brooklyn Comptroller Martin McManus, who works to ensure the Church in Brooklyn and Queens is financially strong.
Marty is one of 49 men and women who will receive papal honors in a ceremony at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph on November 1, 2015.
Currents education correspondent Marie Elena Giossi reports from St. Saviour Catholic Academy in Park Slope, where the principal and the school’s board of directors are working together to provide students with a quality Catholic education.
Currents correspondent Katie Breidenbach meets Deacon Ramon Lima, who will receive the Cross Pro-Ecclesia et Pontifice in a ceremony at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph on Sunday, November 1, 2015.
Deacon Lima is one of 49 men and women who will be presented with papal honors on November 1.
A bill has been introduced in the New York State Legislature to legalize the paying of women to be surrogate mothers. The Catholic Church in the New York State is among the opponents of the measure. Currents correspondent Katie Breidenbach spoke with the Director of Pro-Life Activities for the New York State Catholic Conference, Kathleen Gallagher.
A rumor that Pope Francis has a brain tumor overtook other news in the last week of the Synod of Bishops on the Family. Currents correspondent Christopher Iasiello spoke via Skype with Commonweal Associate Editor Grant Gallicho, who is in Rome covering the Synod.
Catholic Telemedia Network (CTN), the education arm of DeSales Media Group, sent Pope Francis dolls to the Catholic schools of Brooklyn and Queens, ahead of the Holy Father’s trip to the United States. CTN sent the dolls to encourage Pope Francis presence in the schools. Currents correspondent Katie Breidenbach visited St. Patrick Catholic Academy in Bay Ridge, where the students shared their knowledge of the Holy Father.
J.J. Hanson is a former aide to New York Governors Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson. He’s now taken on a new role, leading a fight against efforts to legalize assisted suicide in New York. He spoke with Currents correspondent Konrad Aderer.
Currents correspondent Michelle Powers reports on a program to revitalize the Church that will be available in all the Catholic parishes of Brooklyn and Queens.
There was still many issues on the table in final week of the Synod of Bishops on the Family. Journalist Austen Ivereigh, author of the The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Reformer, is in Rome covering the Synod and he spoke via Skype with Currents news director Ed Wilkinson.
David DiCerto gives his thoughts on the latest from the creators of FIREPROOF & COURAGEOUS, a Christian drama called WAR ROOM!