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WASHINGTON — Catholic immigration advocates are urging Congress and President Joe Biden to speed up legislation to protect immigrants after a federal judge ruled July 16 to end a program that prevents the deportation of thousands of immigrants brought...
Bishop Koenig spent a portion of his first weekend as shepherd of the Diocese of Wilmington getting accustomed to his new home. The 10th bishop of Wilmington celebrated Mass twice at the Cathedral of St. Peter -- the 4 p.m,...
VATICAN CITY  -- Pope Francis expressed his gratitude to the medical staff at Rome's Gemelli hospital after his recovery from intestinal surgery. "Upon returning from my hospitalization, I feel the need to send a grateful and affectionate thought to you...
Designing his shield — the central element in what is formally called the heraldic achievement — a bishop has an opportunity to depict symbolically aspects of his life and heritage, and elements of the Catholic faith that are important...
Several weeks before his episcopal ordination and installation as the 10th bishop of the Diocese of Wilmington, Bishop William E. Koenig took part in an interview with Joseph P. Owens, editor of The Dialog. Q. Bishop Koenig, welcome to the...
In a 2007 interview with the journal Image, author Alice McDermott shared her view on the sacramental in her work: "The idea of sacrament -- an outward sign elevated into something else, the ordinary made into occasions of grace...
By the time you reach Page 4 of Alice McDermott's stunning book, "The Ninth Hour," a man is speaking the words of the "Hail Mary" as he dies. Is Alice McDermott a Catholic writer? Her faith background permeates her work. And...
Sports-minded onlookers outside St. Elizabeth Church in Wilmington on July 13 might have believed one of the Diocese of Wilmington permanent deacons was lobbing a jab at Bishop William Koenig, the 10th bishop of Wilmington who was ordained and...
The text message arrived around 9:30 on the night of April 29. Father Charles Dillingham checked his phone at the rectory at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Hockessin, where he is the pastor. It was from a...
WILMINGTON — Serviam Girls Academy, the tuition-free middle school, has been awarded accreditation by the Middle States Association of College and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accreditation is an expression of confidence in an institution’s mission and goals,...

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