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HERALD Murphy named to a new position
Softball star goes All-District
Curran leads new task force
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Vol. 35 No. 33
AUGUST 8 - 14, 2024
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Henning will take the reins in Boston Henning, 59, was born in Rockville Centre and grew up in Valley Stream, where he Pope Francis has appointed attended the Holy Name of Richard G. Henning, former Mary parish. He later graduatauxiliary bishop of Rockville e d f ro m C h a m i n a d e H i g h Centre and the current Bishop School in Mineola in 1982, and of Providence, Rhode Island, as went on to attend St. John’s University in 1986, the next Archbishbefore studying for op of Boston. the priesthood at Cardinal Christhe Seminary of tophe Pierre, aposthe Immaculate tolic nuncio to the Conception in HunUnited States, made tington. the announcement He was ordained on Aug. 5 following in 1992 at St. Agnes the resignation of Cathedral by forCardinal Sean P. mer Bishop John O’Malley, who has McGann of the Dioled the Archdiocese cese of Rockville of Boston for more Centre. Henning than 20 years. spent the next five “I’m very grateful to almighty God RIChARD hENNING years as an associate pastor at the for the abundance Archbishop-elect Church of St. Peter of life made possi- of Boston of Alcantara in ble by his love and Port Washington, his grace and I invoke the Lord’s help, as I look where he ministered to Spanforward to beginning this new ish-speaking Catholics in the ministry,” Henning said during area. In addition to speaking a press conference about the English, he is fluent in Spanish announcement. “I am also and Italian and can read grateful to our Holy Father French, Greek and Hebrew. In 1997, Henning was (Pope Francis) for his confidence and the gift of this call to assigned to attend post-gradushepherd the extraordinary ate studies in sacred scripture Church of Boston.” Continued on page 11
By DANIEl oFFNER
doffner@liherald.com
Tim Baker/Herald
Golf outing raises money for cancer research Thomas Rose, left, Mike Stephan, Eric Juergens, Nick Pellicani and Peter Wyman hit the Rockville Links on Monday, for the sixth annual Golfing for Gabi fundraiser to help raise money for The Jimmy Fund and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Boston in honor of Gabriella Pellicani. Photos, story see Page 3.
Gender identity video shown at Middle School sparks outrage By DANIEl oFFNER doffner@liherald.com
Parents in the Rockville Centre School District expressed outrage last week that a video on gender identity was shown to a seventh-grade health class at South Side Middle School in May — without prior notice to the students’ parents. In response, more than 400 district residents have signed a petition demanding that the lesson be removed, and that parents be informed before their children have a class focusing on the controversial topic. “The majority of the signatures were gathered in approximately 10 days, just before the end of
the school year,” Sarah Cooney, a mother of two boys who attend district schools, told administrators at the July 31 Board of Education meeting. “The petition was prompted by the discovery in May that the entire seventh grade was being shown a video on gender identity in health class. In the video, the presenter, wearing a T-shirt stating ‘Science in Progress,’ made unscientific claims such as that there are more than two genders. Children came home with notes on transgenderism, gender fluidity and pansexuality.” Cooney said that after the district received several complaints from parents, the video was pulled from the class on the basis that it was Continued on page 13
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’m very grateful … and I invoke the Lord’s help, as I look forward to beginning this new ministry.