After centuries of service, the Diocese of Brooklyn is honoring for the first time ever one of it’s most under-appreciated vocations. National Brothers day is being celebrated in Bellerose, Queens and Katie Engesser reports from the mass.
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Students within the Diocese of Brooklyn and New York State are currently taking annual state-wide examinations. Last year, Catholic academies and schools in Brooklyn and Queens surpassed New York City public schools in all tested grades in both ELA and Math. Michelle Powers spoke with a top official for the Diocese who hopes these trends continue.
LES Priest Makes Clothing With A Mission
The nonprofit Goods of Conscience makes high-fashion, socially conscious clothing out of handwoven wild cotton from Guatemala. Our Konrad Aderer asks founder and designer Father Andrew O’Connor how this project was passed on to him by Father Stanley Rother, the martyred priest now on the path to sainthood.
Kids Participate in CYO’s First Flag Football Season
Tim Harfmann reports from Bellerose, where youngsters are participating in CYO’s inaugural flag football season. Elementary school children, ranging from grades 3-8, hit the gridiron to stay active.
SAT Prep to Growing Chinese-Speaking Community
Educators at Brooklyn’s Saint Joseph’s College are expanding help for new arrivals to the city. Our Michelle Powers reports the goal is to prepare Chinese-speaking students for an important examination.
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This week on “In the Arena”, Archbishop of Lahore, Pakistan, Sebastian Francis Shaw, joins Monsignor Kieran Harrington to discuss Christianity in the Pakistan. Then, the director of evangelization & outreach for Aid to the Church in Need, Ed Clancy, joins the conversation to talk about the important work that Aid to the Church in Need is doing around the world. All this and much more on “In the Arena”: faith at the forefront of today’s news and events.
Preachers of Christ and Mary
It was on September 5th in a small Colombian city, near the capital, where the sun heats up the morichales and the red moon embellishes the night sky of Villavicencio. On this day bathed by the sun of 1995, Monsignor Alfonso Cabezas, Bishop of the Diocese, receives Ad Experimentum the Pious Association Preachers of Christ and Mary, with a steadfast desire of being a Society of Apostolic Life in the Church that would live to preach the living and risen Jesus Christ. The fervent desire to let Jesus Christ be know, loved and served.
Which then is the charisma of the Preachers of Christ and Mary?
The gift that the Holy Spirit granted to the community Preachers of Christ and Mary for the Church is the enhancing and contemplation of Jesus as an itinerant preacher.
The spirituality that stirs us to daily live out our charisma is the contemplation of Jesus Christ on the Cross and in the Holy Eucharist, the tender and loving confidence in our Blessed Mother, the Virgin Mary, and the profound friendship with the Holy Spirit.
Coptic Christians on Pope of Peace’s Trip
As Pope Francis prepares for his meeting with the Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II, Christians in the United States are hoping the gathering will help bring about peace among religions. Katie Engesser talks with Father Peter Dimyan of Staten Island’s Coptic Orthodox Church of the Archangel Michael and Saint Mena about the upcoming trip.
The Good Shepherd Part 1
Joe Estevez visits the Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women and Children in downtown L.A. Sister Anne Lanh Tran, Director, discusses the Center’s mission to empower women and their children to be self sufficient, through housing and support services offered with dignity and love
Diocese Celebrates Hope and Healing Mass
The Bishop of Brooklyn, Nicholas DiMarzio, celebrates a Mass of Hope and Healing – a special liturgy offered for victims and all others impacted by sexual abuse. Our Michelle Powers reports from Saint Anselm Church in Bay Ridge.