Brooklynโs Mercy Home for Children provides essential services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Home hosts a special Mass in honor of the residents. Our Michelle Powers reports the liturgy is part of Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month and they have much to celebrate.
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Holy Hour Looks to “Inspire” Vocations
A Holy Hour called Inspira is inspiring young Hispanics and Latinos to consider what God is calling for them. Katie Engesser reports from Most Precious Blood Church in Bath Beach, Brooklyn where a new generation tries to answer the question “Who am I?”
Fr. Joseph Holcomb
On this episode of On the Block, Ed Wilkinson, Editor of the Tablet newspaper, ย talks with Fr. Joseph Holcomb, the sixth pastor of St. Andrew Avellino parish in Flushing. A native New Yorker, Fr. Holcomb was ordained in 1980 and has been faithfully serving multiple communities ever since.
Dorothy Day Granddaughter Writes Intimate Book on Possible Saint
Kate Hennessy, Dorothyย Day’sย youngestย
A Lenten Promise: Purple Bagels
Here in the Diocese, this Lent, a worshiper at Saint Maryโs Parish in Long Island City has a unique idea for the holy season.Our Michelle Powers tells us what it is…
St. Joseph’s Feast Day Celebrated in Queens
With St. Patrick’s Day past, one parish in Queens is celebrating their patron’s feast day with blessed bread. Katie Engesser reports from the St Joseph’s feast day festivities.
Food Pantry Helps Needy During Lent
Tim Harfmann reports from Forest Hills where Catholics from Our Lady of Mercy and Our Lady Queen of Martyrs team up to help the less fortunate. During the liturgical season of Lent, the volunteers use the period to reflect and show almsgiving.
Sistine Chapel Graces Brooklyn Building
“Neary’s: The Dream At The End Of The Rainbow”
Days before St. Patrick’s Day, Manhattan’s Sheen Center screened the premiere of “Neary’s: The Dream at the End of the Rainbow.” The hour-long documentary follows Jimmy Neary’s journey from a small farm in Ireland to his famous New York City eatery. Tim Harfmann speaks with the 86-year-old Irish immigrant; frequent customers, Cardinal Timothy Dolan and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg; as well as the director, acclaimed filmmaker Neil Leifer.
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This week on “In the Arena”, host, Monsignor Kieran Harrington, is joined by associate editor of Commonweal, Matthew Sitman, and Literary Editor of First Things, Matthew Schmitz, to talk about the hot-button issues. Then, Pakistani-Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker, Raheel Raza, joins Monsignor to talk about the travel ban, and Manager of Communication for God’s Love We Deliver, Emmett Findley, comes on to talk about feeding those in need. All this and much more on “In the Arena”: faith at the forefront of today’s news and events.