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Bishop-Elect Celebrates with Parishioners

Currents correspondent Michelle Powers reports from Holy Cross Parish in Maspeth, where Bishop-Elect Witold Mroziewski, the pastor, celebrated Mass with his parishioners for the first time since the announcement of his appointment as an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Brooklyn.

Congolese Bishop-Elect and the Challenges Ahead

Pope Francis has appointed Father Emery Kibal, a Passionist Priest who has been living in Jamaica, Queens, as the new Bishop of Kole in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Bishop-Elect Kibal, who is a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, spoke about his future ministry as a bishop with Currents correspondent Konrad Aderer

What the Future Deacons have Learned

Currents correspondent Katie Breidenbach talks to two men who are planning to take the lessons they’ve learned into their ministry as deacons.

Priests Ride to Encourage Vocations

Currents anchor Liz Faublas speaks with Father Joseph Fitzgerald, Vocations Director for the Diocese of Rockville Centre.  Father Fitzgerald is one of two priests who biking with three seminarians from Florida to New York to raise awareness for vocations.

Auxiliary Bishops-Elect Introduced in Brooklyn

Pope Francis has appointed Father James Massa and Father Witold Mroziewski as auxiliary bishops for the Diocese of Brooklyn. Currents correspondent Katie Breidenbach and News Director Ed Wilkinson report from the press conference at the Brooklyn Diocese’s chancery.

Press Conference: Introducing Brooklyn Bishops-Elect

Pope Francis has appointed two priests of the Diocese of Brooklyn – the Very Reverend James Massa, 54, and the Reverend Canon Witold Mroziewski, 49 – as auxiliary bishops of Brooklyn. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, made the announcement public today in Washington, D.C.

The Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop of Brooklyn, will ordain the new bishops at a Mass of Episcopal Ordination to be celebrated at the Co-Cathedral of Saint Joseph on July 20, 2015 at 2 p.m.

Earlier today, the Diocese of Brooklyn held a press conference to introduce the new bishops.