Currents sports correspondent Jim Mancari is in the batter’s box, to tell us how one piece of equipment has changed the game at St. Francis Prep High School* in Queens.
* Congratulations to St. Francis Prep Varsity Baseball Coach Robert Kent, O.S.F., who recently knotched his 600th career victory.
Bishop DiMarzio joined two parish communities in Brooklyn to celebrate two 20th Century Popes who are now Saints. Currents correspondent Antonina Zielinska has the story.
Determined residents of one Brooklyn neighborhood are doing their best to work to help a Catholic academy. Currents correspondent Michelle Powers reports that their work to help one school is also delicious.
“If you’ve ever wondered how you give out communion to over a million people, this is how you do it.” Priests from all over the world process into St. Peter’s Basilica for the Canonization on April 27, 2014. Report by Fr. Rob Keighron, Diocese of Brooklyn.
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Polish Pilgrims at St. Agnes in Rome, the evening before the Canonization.
Among the throngs in Saint Peter’s Square for the canonizations of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII, a contingent from the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens. Currents correspondent Konrad Aderer is covering their pilgrimage.
Fifty years ago this week, the World’s Fair got underway in New York. Among the highlights: a Papal visit, a Vatican Pavilion and a Michelangelo masterpiece. Our Ed Wilkinson and Katie Breidenbach went in search of the way it was.
Este primer programa es uno muy especial. Nos encontramos ante un momento histórico. La canonización del Beato Juan Pablo II. Juan Pablo II nació Karol Uzef Wojtyla en Wadowice, Polonia. Al ser electo por la Iglesia Católica en 1978, se convirtió en el primer Papa no Italiano en 455 años. Para conocer al Papa, hay que conocer al hombre. Su gran amigo el cardenal Deskur dijo “todo lo que el santo padre soporto en su vida, lo preparo para lo que tenía que hacer. Al igual que una flecha se prepara para ser disparada de un arco, Dios prepara a las personas correctas. El prepara sus flechas.
The first program is a very special one. We are facing a historic moment, the canonization of Blessed John Paul II. John Paul II was born Karol Uzef Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland. After being elected in 1978 by the Catholic Church, he became the first non-Italian pope in 455 years. To know the Pope, one must know the man. His great friend Cardinal Deskur said “all that the holy father stood for in his life prepared him for what he had to do. Like an arrow ready to be shot from a bow, God prepares the right people. He prepares his arrows.
The Brooklyn Diocese is conducting its annual appeal which funds a number of vital activities. Bishop DiMarzio talked about it with New Director Ed Wilkinson, for our latest Into The Deep interview.