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I asked my Grandma Libby what her best tip was for a happy marriage. As I got ready on my wedding day, five years ago this past June, I picked her brain. She and my grandfather were married for...
Cubans born in the past two decades are seeing firsthand state repression and violence not witnessed in their lifetimes as economic woes and a coronavirus pandemic widen in their country, according to a Catholic communications specialist in Cuba. Thousands of...
VATICAN CITY -- Saying he was acting for the good of the unity of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has restored limits on the celebration of the Mass according to the Roman Missal in use before the Second Vatican...
WILMINGTON — The Diocese of Wilmington witnessed a bit of history when Bishop William Koenig was ordained to the episcopate on July 13 at St. Elizabeth Church in Wilmington. For the first time in more than a century, a...
LORAIN, Ohio — The summer sun glistens on a calm Lake Erie off the Lorain shoreline, brightening the eucharistic adoration chapel at St. Anthony of Padua Church. It’s where Hilaire Tavenner makes time for at least a few minutes...
HAVANA — The Conference of Catholic Religious in Cuba representing men and women religious in the Caribbean nation is supporting the “legitimate and universal right” of Cubans to express grievances with the government in an “orderly and peaceful way...
Although the Diocese of Wilmington only found out at the end of April that Msgr. William E. Koenig of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y., would be its next bishop, officials began planning for the arrival of a new...
The funeral Mass for Colin M. Brady, who died July 11, will be held July 19 at Salesianum School, from which the 17-year-old graduated in June. No cause of death was available. According to his obituary, Brady, of north Wilmington,...
Good afternoon. As I stand before you as the 10th bishop of Wilmington, I am grateful, I am humbled and I am eager. I am grateful to our Holy Father, Pope Francis, for the trust he has placed in me...
The Diocese of Rockville Centre’s Bishop John O. Barres calls Wilmington’s new bishop a “gift” from Long Island to Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In a way, Bishop William E. Koenig, a priest of Rockville Centre since 1983,...

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