Apr 20, 2021
Do you know there is a lodge in NYC named after Pope Leo XIII?
The Leo Home was based within the Eighteen Eighties as a boarding home for
German Catholic immigrants, on the behest of the Holy Father, and
remains to be working right now as a Catholic lodge offering charitable
hospitality at a reduction.
On this episode you may be taught from the Leo Home’s chairman and
president, Michael Coneys, in regards to the lodge’s fascinating historical past.
The story entails Pope Leo’s particular take care of the Catholic Church
in Germany because it was struggling underneath Protestant Prussian rule; as
effectively because the St. Raphael Society, which helped political dissidents
to flee Nazi Germany. It additionally entails a really providential go to
from Mom Teresa! However that is additionally a really modern story
story of one in all many Catholic nonprofits struggling to outlive the
previous 12 months’s lockdowns.
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8888Qu0oonc
Hyperlinks
Be taught extra: https://leohousenyc.com/
Donate to the Leo Home: https://leohousenyc.com/donate/
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