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.

Construction Continues at St. Helen’s Church

Building the future of St. Helen’s Church, Howard Beach, is the work of the pastor, his parishioners and skilled professionals alike. Tim Harfmann has an update about the ongoing project.

Hearing the Call: Deacon Willy Kingsley Ndi

In her continued series of incoming priests, Katie Engesser talks to Deacon Willy Kingsley Ndi, who serves at St Martin De Porres parish in Brooklyn. His story is of a young man who is moving from one large family to an even bigger one.

Women’s Heart Health

The Director of Women’s Heart Health at Lenox Hill Hospital, Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, and the founder of GospelFit, Joy Williams, joins Host Portland Helmich to discuss the number one cause of death for women in the U.S. – heart disease. Then, Portland goes to the God’s Love We Deliever kitchen to cook up a heart-healthy dish with the Director of Nutrition Services for God’s Love We Deliver, Lisa Zullig, and Chef Andre Daquigan.