{"id":4132,"date":"2010-03-04T07:45:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T07:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/03\/from-the-brooklyn-desk.html"},"modified":"2010-03-04T07:45:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T07:45:39","slug":"from-the-brooklyn-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/03\/from-the-brooklyn-desk.html","title":{"rendered":"From the Brooklyn Desk&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Rocco has <a href=\"http:\/\/whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/strategic-planning.html\">the goods<\/a> on some significant strategic planning underway in Baltimore and Brooklyn that will result in the closing and consolidating of parishes (Brooklyn) and schools (Baltimore). <\/p>\n<p>Here at The Bench, the hardworking staff at the Brooklyn Desk wandered over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dioceseofbrooklyn.org\/\">Diocese of Brooklyn website<\/a> and found <a href=\"http:\/\/christjesusourhope.org\/\">an impressive new web page<\/a> set up to explain just what is about to happen.  It includes a link to Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio&#8217;s new pastoral letter, &#8220;Renewing the Mission: Christ Jesus Our Hope.&#8221;  There&#8217;s also a brief video (produced by, cough, cough, <a href=\"http:\/\/netny.net\/\">The NET,<\/a> cough, cough), below.  <\/p>\n<p>Keep the good people of Brooklyn in your prayers as this process unfolds.  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