Currents education correspondent Marie Elena Giossi reports from our latest School of the Week, St. Edmund in Sheepshead Bay.
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Peter Swanson – Let There Be Light
Peter Swanson’s award-winning film, “Let There Be Light,” is about Washington National Cathedral’s great stained-glass artist, Rowan LeCompte, and his collaborators Dieter Goldkuhle and Mary Clerkin Higgins. Of the film Peter wrote, “This is the story of a great artist producing his last great work of art. It is the story of the human struggle to create, and the monumental, stunningly beautiful results that are possible when we apply ourselves to that struggle.” NET travelled to Washington DC to interview the filmmaker and to learn more about his efforts to create his own work of art: Let There Be Light.
Francis’s Turkey Trip Seen as a Success
Days after Pope Francis concluded his trip to Turkey, during which he met with the leader of Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew, Currents correspondent Katie Breidenbach spoke with the Diocese of Brooklyn’s Vicar for Interreligious Dialogue and Ecumenical Affairs, Monsignor Guy Massie.
Brooklyn-Queens Churches Extend An Invitation
It’s the latest ad campaign from the Diocese of Brooklyn that’s gone viral. Currents correspondent Konrad Aderer reports on how the Church is reaching out to people.
Catholic Charities Volunteers Share Warmth
Volunteers at Catholic Charities Brooklyn Community Center are learning a skill while, at the same time, helping needy families.
God Is Awake And Aware
What if you were on a plane and all of a sudden God spoke to you through a person you never saw and what he said was exactly what you needed to hear? On this episode, our blessed guest Rosanzy shares with us her story about how God reached her as she was traveling. If you feel like God has forgotten about you, then this is an episode for you. God is awake and aware! He’s not sleeping or on vacation! Tune in to get your HOPE injection.
Brooklyn Burglars Targeting Houses of Worship
Currents correspondent Konrad Aderer reports from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Sunset Park, one of the many houses of worship burglarized in that neighborhood, as well as Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst.
Maryknoll Sisters Never Forget Slain Missionaries: Part 3
Currents correspondent Michelle Powers reports from a memorial Mass celebrated in honor of the Maryknoll missionaries killed in El Salvador in 1980.
Resurrection-Ascension Sixth Grader is Jeopardy Girl
Currents correspondent Konrad Aderer caught up with sixth grader Gabriella Fusco of Resurrection-Ascension School in Rego Park, who will be appearing on Jeopardy this Wednesday, during the quiz show’s “Kids Week.”
CYO Teams Raise Money for “Eddie Boy”
Currents sports correspondent Jim Mancari reports from St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Flatlands, which hosted a basketball tournament to raise money for Eddie McCarthy, a Xaverian High School freshman who is suffering from pediatric brain cancer.