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Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the U.S., announced that Pope Francis has named Burlington's 10th Bishop Christopher J. Coyne as the first ever coadjutor archbishop of Hartford. The Woburn native's transfer from the Green Mountain State to the Nutmeg State was effective on June 26. Until he arrives in Harford, he will also be the apostolic administrator of Burlington. Following Archbishop Coyne's Mass of Welcome at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Joseph on Oct

Father Michael McGivney was a son of Irish immigrants, a parish priest, and the founder of the Knights of Columbus and he soon he may also be a saint. He was born on this day in 1852. Father McGivney served as a parish priest in New Haven, CT in the late 1800s where the Catholic community was a discriminated-against...