Currents correspondent Tim Harfmann reports from the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston, where the Diocese of Brooklyn honored men and women from religious communities who are celebrating jubilee anniversaries.
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Anticipating Ecology Encylical
“Laudato Sii” – believed to be the title of the highly anticipated and much speculated encyclical on ecology that Pope Francis is expected to release in the summer. Father John Cush, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn currently studying in Rome, speaks with Currents anchor Liz Faublas about the issues of ecology and the Church and what the Holy Father may have to say about it all.
Numbers And The Church
Grant Gallicho and David Gibson join Msgr. Kieran Harrington to discuss the new Pew study that sheds light on why people leave the Catholic Church and what it means for the future of the Church. Then Msgr. Kieran talks about the Education Investment Tax Credit and why it is important to support this key legislation.
Future Priests Talk Fatherhood
On June 27, Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio will ordain 10 men to the priesthood. Currents correspondent Katie Breidenbach begins her series introducing us to these men. In Katie’s first report, two of the soon-to-be priests talk about the priests role as a father.
Telling Tolton’s Tale
Currents correspondent Konrad Aderer speaks with the President of St. Luke Productions, Leonardo DeFilippis, about St. Luke’s casting call for a new play based on the life of Father Augustus Tolton, the first African American priest.
Shakespeare Showcased in Bayside School
The eighth grade class at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament School in Bayside presented a Shakespearean showcase – scenes from the Bard’s various plays. Currents education correspondent Marie Elena Giossi visits our latest Class of the Week.
Crunch Time for Education Tax Credit
Currents correspondent Michelle Powers reports on the ongoing effort to get New York State Lawmakers to pass the Education Tax Credit.
Bishop DiMarzio: Migrant Detention Not Humanitarian
The U.S. Bishops Conference and the Center for Migration Studies has released a report with a plan to transform the immigrant detention system in the United States. Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio is a member of the U.S. Bishops Committee on Migration and Chair of the Center for Migration Studies. Currents News Director Ed Wilkinson spoke with Bishop DiMarzio about immigrant detention.
Volunteers Training for Francis’s U.S. Visit
Catholic Voices USA, an organization that trains people to represent the Catholic Church to the media, is preparing volunteers for Pope Francis’s trip to the U.S. in September. Currents correspondent Konrad Aderer speaks with Catholic Voices USA Associate Director Christopher White.
Black Nuns and “Subversive Habits”
Currents anchor Liz Faublas speaks with Dr. Shannen Dee Williams, a professor at the University of Tennessee, who is completing the manuscript for a book about Black Catholic Religious Sisters in the United States titled ““Subversive Habits: Black Nuns and the Struggle to Desegregate Catholic America after World War I.”