Forward God’sgift Achiuwa discusses his journey from Port Harcourt, Nigeria, to the basketball hardcourts of St. John’s. Jamal Branch talks about how faith steered him away from bad influences and how it brought him to where he is now, playing basketball for a prestigious university.
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Men and Women: Debunking the Myths
Leading up to an extraordinary October meeting on family life and the Church, the Holy Father has been offering advice to husbands and wives over the past few weeks on words and how they can be used to help – or hurt – a marriage. Currents correspondent Michelle Powers did her own research on the power of the spoken word.
Nigerians Hoping Social Media Will Lead to Social Action
Currents correspondent Michelle Powers has the story of an online Internet campaign in which voices are being raised to join the global outcry over the kidnapping of close to 300 school girls in Nigeria.
Women’s Health and Internal Medicine
Type 2 Diabetes may shrink the brain. Dr. Steven Garner and his on-air assistant Nikki Casseri discuss this and your questions with Dr. Josine Veca (women’s health specialist) and Dr. Emil Baccash (geriatric and internal medicine specialist) on this episode of Ask the Doctor.
Girls High School Hall of Fame Welcomes New Inductees
The Girls Catholic High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame welcomed its newest inductees, and Currents sports correspondent Jim Mancari was at the ceremony.
Chinese Catholics in Queens Maintain Traditional Devotion
As Christians in the Chinese city of Wenzhou are uneasy following the government demolition of a church there, Chinese Catholics in Flushing, Queens celebrated a feast from their homeland over the weekend, and Currents correspondent Michelle Powers was there.
Cardinal Kasper: “If God Does It, the Church Should Do It, Also”
German Cardinal Walter Kasper has received a lot of attention for a presentation, delivered in February to Pope Francis and the College of Cardinals. In that talk, Kasper offered the possibility of divorced and remarried Catholics could receive communion going to confession. Over the weekend, Cardinal Kasper was in New York and Currents correspondent Katie Breidenbach spent some time with him.
Crisis in the Ukraine
Dr. Walter Zaryckyj of the Center for US-Ukrainian Relations joins host Msgr. Kieran Harrington in-studio to discuss the ongoing conflict of the Ukrainian peninsula. Also featured in-studio, Michael La Civita is the Chief Communications Officer of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association. Msgr. Harrington also answers viewers’ questions in a “Mail Bag” segment.
UK Catholic Pol: the West has been “Indifferent” to Radical Islamization
One British Member of Parliament uses a frightful term of history – “the Final Solution” –to describe Islamic terrorists. David Alton sits in the House of Lords. Lord Alton spoke with Currents correspondent Katie Breidenbach.
Bishop DiMarzio: “True Conversion Takes Time”
Bishop DiMarzio is preparing to celebrate a special Mass for those who received sacraments of initiation on the Easter Vigil. The bishop explains the purpose of this Mass to News Director Ed Wilkinson in tonight’s edition of Into The Deep.