New Jersey: You are invited to a documentary screening of Foreclosing on Faith with director/producer Viktoria Somogyi and attorney Brody Hale.
3pm Sunday Feb 22
Knights of Columbus Hall
130 Main Street
Woodbridge, NJ 07095
Registration is free but required.
Released in 2017, Foreclosing on Faith documents dramatic struggles that were then taking place in Cleveland, Boston, and New York which pitted faithful Catholics against bishops over church closures.
But the battles continue.
The Newark Archdiocese is presently undertaking a program of downsizing known as “We Are His Witnesses.” It will likely result in a considerable decrease in the number of Catholic parishes and churches in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, and Union counties. The aim of this presentation is to discuss the root causes of parish and church closures and to educate Catholics about the options and rights they have if they find their parish on the list when the Archdiocese of Newark releases it in the late spring or early summer of this year.
Speakers:
Co-producer and -director of Foreclosing on Faith, Viktoria Somogyi is a Hungarian journalist and economist based in Rome, Italy. For more than twenty years, she has served as an editor for the Hungarian program of Vatican Radio. She has also worked extensively as a freelance Vatican and Rome correspondent for numerous international publications, magazines, radio stations, and online news outlets, and has contributed to an American Catholic monthly.
A native of Massachusetts, Brody Hale has a private law practice with a focus on nonprofit organizations, social entrepreneurship, and conservation. An expert in Canon Law, Brody has for over a decade provided assistance to groups of Catholics fighting to prevent their churches from being closed by dioceses. He is currently working on behalf of 21 different groups around the country whose churches are threatened with closure. His work to preserve historic Roman Catholic churches has been featured in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, the Chicago Sun Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Worcester Telegram, the Fall River Herald, and the National Catholic Register.
Admission is free but registration is required.
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