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.
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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.
La Co-Catedral de San José y su Restauración
En esta edición de Tu Fe Al Día conocemos de la historia de la nueva Co-Catedral de San José. Conocida como una de las Iglesias más bellas de la Diócesis de Brooklyn y una que vive en el Corazón de los inmigrantes de esta ciudad, se construyo para darle un hogar a los inmigrantes católicos de Irlanda en 1853 y hoy es el albergue de la nueva ola de inmigrantes, los Hispanos.
In this edition of Tu Fe Al Día we learn about the historical richness of the new Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph. Known as one of the most beautiful churches of the Diocese of Brooklyn and one that lives in the hearts of the immigrants of our city, it was built as a home for Catholic immigrants of Ireland in 1853 and today it is home to a new wave of immigrants, Hispanics.
On Stage, Off Stage: This Couple are a Hit
Currents correspondent Michelle Powers tells us the story of the married couple that have shared their talent not only on the Great White Way but also in the churches of Queens.