Friday 21 MAY, 2021 8:00 pm | Eucharistic Adoration (Rome)
Sabato 22 MAY, 2021 2:00 pm | Meeting at P.zza della Repubblica (Roma) 2:30 pm | Departure of the "March for Life" 5:30 pm | Closing of the event in Piazza Venezia
More than two years after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, Bishop William F. Malooly of Wilmington, Delaware, is stepping down.
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of President Joe Biden’s 77-year-old bishop April 30 and named Msgr. William Koenig, vicar for clergy for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, to succeed him.
The changes were announced in Washington by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Vatican nuncio to the United States.
Bishop Malooly, a native of Baltimore, has led the diocese of Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore since 2008 and celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood in 2020.
Bishop-designate Koenig, 64, was born in Queens and ordained for the Diocese of Rockville Centre in 1983. He will be ordained July 13 at St. Elizabeth Church in Wilmington.
“I am humbled by the Holy Father’s decision to appoint me as the 10th bishop of the vibrant and grace-filled Diocese of Wilmington,” he said, adding that he “cannot wait to meet the faithful of the diocese.”
Bishop Malooly said the diocese was “very fortunate” to have Bishop-designate Koenig as its next leader. “God has richly blessed us and we give thanks to God for this wonderful gift,” he added.
Bishop-designate Koenig has been a leader in the Rockville Centre Diocese, serving as rector of St. Agnes Cathedral before he was appointed vicar for clergy in 2020. Rockville Centre is the eighth largest diocese in the United States.
Pope Francis greets Bishop William F. Malooly of Wilmington, Del., during a meeting with U.S. bishops from Regions IV and V making their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican, Dec. 3, 2019. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
His first assignment as a priest was to the parish of St. Edward the Confessor in Syosset, New York. After five years at St. Edward’s, he served for one year at St. James Parish in Setauket where he also assisted in the campus ministry program at State University of Stony Brook.
In 1989, he was appointed the diocesan director of vocations and the following year he also was assigned as diocesan director of ministry to priests. In the years following, he served as parochial vicar at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre, pastor of St. William the Abbot in Seaford and rector of St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre. He was named a monsignor in 2007.
The bishop-designate grew up in East Meadow, where he and his family were parishioners of St. Raphael’s Church. He attended St. Raphael’s Elementary School, St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary in Uniondale, Cathedral College in Douglaston and the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington. After ordination, he also attended Fordham University and received a master’s degree in social work.
He is the son of the late Alfred and Mary Koenig. He has two brothers, Joseph and Michael, and six nephews and nieces.
Two years ago, after being named as priest personnel adviser to Bishop John O. Barres of Rockville Centre, the bishop described then-Msgr. Koenig as “one of our beloved and deeply experienced pastors.”
The newly appointed bishop of Joe Biden’s home diocese in Delaware said Friday he would gladly speak with the president about his views on abortion but did not say whether he would allow him to continue receiving Communion, as his predecessor has.
During a news conference in which retiring Wilmington Bishop Francis Malooly introduced Monsignor William Koenig to his new flock, Koenig said he was open to having a conversation with the president on the issue and that as a bishop, he is called to teach “the fullness and the beauty of the Catholic faith.”
There are expected to be a few people praying the rosary on Saturday May 8, 2021 in front of a hospital in Rome. At this hospital they kill healthy Italian babies, or refer them to other hospitals, for the kill. A report said that there are 4000 or 500 babies killed every year in official abortion. Pope Francis visited the hospital, incuding the section where the infants are aborted legally, this is the ward where the infants are legally aborted .He did not comment upon the abortion. -Lionel Andrades
Comment on the blog Catholic in Brooklyn, Part III: The Papal Posse/Papal Hanging Mob Attacks Pope Francis
Pope Francis does not affirm the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and calls those who do, triumphalists and rigorists. This is enforced in the new Apostolic Exhortation.
In Italy there are more people who die through abortion then migrants at sea but he does not say this. ENCOURAGEMENT AT ROME HOSPITAL
He visited a hospital in Rome, the St. John Lateran Hospital, where abortions are approved and done it is reported. He did not say a word of condemnation and met the medical staff at that particular ward of horror. Was our pope there to encourage them?
ROSARY OUTSIDE HOSPITALS NOT APPROVED
Like the Secretary of the Italian Bishops Conference he does not approve of Catholics praying the rosary outside hospritals in Italy where abortion is available free and on demand. CATHOLIC YOUTH OUTSIDE HOSPITALS
At the next synod for the Youth will our pope tell youth to protest outside hospitals where abortions are done?
Did our pope excommunicate Cardinal Nicols for supporting euthanasia in the Alfie Evans case and not calling for public protests and prayers to prevent the toddler from being killed by the hospital ?-Lionel Andrades
Pope Francis, Sergio Mastarella and Avvenire : immigrant babies are important but Italian babies are nothttp://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2016/01/pope-francis-sergio-mastarella-and.html
January 9, 2016
Italian newspapers maintain censorship on thousands of Italian babies killed in local hospitals in a cruel way
Pope Francis yesterday(Friday) visited the hospital San Giovanni Addolorata, Roma where abortions are done and contraceptives handed out.He did not comment on the abortions.
There are more Italians killed every year through abortion then the number of migrants drowned at sea.The pope visited Greece recently and pleaded for the cause of the migrants stranded there.He brought a migrant family to Rome on his flight.However yesterday he did not make a single comment on the Italian babies being killed in one of this hospital abortuaries.
The Pope made a surprise visit to the Accident and Emergency department and to the Neonatal unit of this hospital.This hospital legally kills babies. The bodies are probably dumped in the garbage bins.This was not reported by EWTN or CNA in their news reports.
Every alternative first Saturday of the month a few Catholic volunteers, go in front of this hospital to pray for the children killed through abortion.The pope does not permit any parish or diocese to join these Catholics in prayers for the Italian babies legally aborted.
On May 7,2016 a pro-life day in Rome, pro- lifers prayed the rosary from 9 a.m to 12 p.m at the front entrance of the hospital San Giovanni in Laterano dell' Addolorata,Rome.According to a spokesman of the hospital annually there are about 4000 abortions done at this hospital.
While over 1,30,000 Italians are killed annually through medically approved and government financed abortion.
Abortion on demand is available at this hospital.It is cheap and subsidised by the government of Sergio Mattarella and Renzi.
Pope Francis has condemned the Holocaust,and this is approved by the Jewish Left but he does not condemn the holocaust of abortion,in Italy, where Catholic hospitals are part of the problem.The pope has not called for the abrogation of the law 194.
The pope who has not opposed the abortion of children legally at hospitals,at medical institutes or clinics linked to the hospitals,will next month participate in an inter-faith prayer meetin. He will not tell the non Catholics there that they are all oriented to Hell ( https://youtu.be/vO8tg1pD-3I) unless they convert into the Catholic Church,according to Vatican Council II (AG 7, LG 14).Similarly he did not tell the doctors who encourage the Killing of infants that they too are all oriented to the fires of Hell.
The pope who pastorally permists the Eucharist to be given to the divorced and remarried and to practising homosexuals, pastorally is not telling these persons, that they are in mortal sin and are on the way to Hell, as is the priests and bishops who sacrilegeously give them the Eucharist.
The pope who does not the genuflect at the consecration during Mass but kneels during the washing of a Muslim women's feet during Holy Week, was politically correct yesterday at the abortion centre,as he continues to kneel before the Masons and the rest of the Jewish Left who follow Satan.
Pope Francis, Sergio Mastarella and Avvenire : immigrant babies are important but Italian babies are not http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2016/01/pope-francis-sergio-mastarella-and.html
The daily Avvenire,the Italian Bishops Conference newspaper has become a Left wing rag.There are full page photos of Enzo Bianchi ( Monastero di Bose) and now they have begum a new column with interviews of refugees who have not been given naturalized citizenship.
There are no interviews or photos of the women who line up in a long queue from early in the morning at some of the hospitals in Rome to have an abortion.Yes abortions are done in Italy.
There are long lines of women waiting to legally abort their babies and no one at Avvenire reports on it with a regular column.Neither do the parishes go there and pray the rosary.Pope Francis does not tell Catholics to go in front of these hospitals and pray the rosary.He visited a hospital where abortions are done in Rome( see photo) and did not condemn the abortions done there.
There are no parish or diocesan groups outside the hospitals in Rome praying the rosary and no reports on Avvenire about this.While the newspaper supports the invasion of Italy by young non Catholic bachelors supported by Soros, Rothschild and other globalists.
Ex Catholic Avvenire is working for the new world order and one world religion with a false image of Jesus and the Church and in which the Eucharist will lose its present Catholic understanding.It is working for the Left which is of Satan.
CHRISTIAN REFUGEES ON THE STREETS IN ROME
For the last four days hundreds of Ethiopian and Eritian Christians with valid documents, have been sleeping on the roads and at Piazza Independenza near Termini, Rome.They were evacuated from one of the formerly vacant buildings.They do not have a place to stay and the Administration does not have a solution yet.
There are so many useless museums in Rome. There are galleries with bad art which also have potential space for refugees, example Palazzo Venezia and Castel San Angelo.-Lionel Andrades