Bishop Robert Brennan leads the most diverse diocese in the country: Brooklyn-Queens. Every Sunday, you are able to find Mass in over 25 languages throughout the diocese. Before coming to Brooklyn, Bishop Brennan was bishop of Columbus, Ohio (Zac’s hometown). This week, we talk to Bishop Brennan about the differences between Ohio and Brooklyn, what it’s like to switch dioceses as a bishop and the future of parish life in an era of church closings and reorganization.

In Signs of the Times, Ashley and Zac look at St. Patrick’s Day dispensations around the country and a new “cannabis studies” certificate offered by St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

Links from the show: 

Bishop Brennan Podcast: Big City Catholics

St. Joseph’s University has a cannabis certificate program, and some Catholics aren’t pleased

When St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Friday in Lent, should we eat the corned beef?

Jesuitical March Madness: Facebook

What’s on tap? 

Scotch! (We have a St. Patrick’s Day dispensation ourselves)

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