Youth take a look at the choir loft of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace on June 29 during a “Youth Day” tour of the historic church. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) The Cathedral Renewal Campaign, an initiative to raise funds for the renovation of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace […]
Archives for July 2013
Manaolana | Bishop Silva is among two dozen from Hawaii headed for World Youth Day in Brazil
Joshua Kapika of St. Michael Church in Waialua holds up the special shirt that Hawaii pilgrims will be wearing to World Youth Day events in Brazil, July 23-28. By the time you read this, about two dozen pilgrims from Hawaii will be on their way to one of the biggest Catholic events of the […]
Obituary: Sacred Hearts Sister Lucia Iwata served her community creatively for 6 decades
Hawaii-born Sacred Hearts Sister Lucia Iwata, who served her calling and her community in a variety of ways, from cook and housekeeper, to religion teacher and eucharistic minister, to choir member and rosary maker, died unexpectedly at Straub Medical Center on June 30. She was 84 and in religious life for 63 years. Sister Regina […]
Mary Adamski: Thou shall not kill
It seems that there’s been such clamor of words in my ears for the past few weeks that it’s hard to sit down and sort them into quiet thoughts on a keyboard. If you haven’t been battered with the details of two murder trials, in Florida and in Hawaii, you’ve succeeded in being a better […]
Conversations: A Little Sister of Hawaii
Hawaii-born Little Sister of the Poor Marie Antoinette du St. Esprit Takahara. (HCH photo | Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP) “This will be my last trip home,” the kindly voice said. “It was a long trip coming over.” Something in my heart sank. I had just met her, and I didn’t want to let […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Antonetta Wilgenbusch worked 30 years on Oahu
Maryknoll Sister Antonetta Wilgenbusch, teacher to the deaf, beloved domestic and pastoral worker in Hawaii for 30 years and a teacher in Indiana, died on June 29, at Maryknoll, N.Y. She was 101 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for 78 years. Hawaii was Sister Antonetta’s first mission assignment. She arrived in 1940, […]
Kathleen T. Choi: Not likely
I just read a biography of Tom Cruise (it’s summer). Naturally there was a lot about Scientology, and the biographer gleefully mocked its teachings. As I read, I thought to myself, “I could make Christianity sound just as silly.” For example, we Christians believe that God is big enough to create the universe yet small […]
Charismatic conference to feature speakers Neal and Janet Lozano
The 2013 Hawaii Regional Charismatic Conference, Aug. 9-11 at the Catholic Charities Hawaii community hall in Makiki, will feature speakers Neal Lozano, a best-selling author and authority on “deliverance” ministry, and his wife Janet. The annual conference is sponsored by the Hawaii Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services. The Lozanos will give four presentations interspersed with praise […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Abraham, Martha and Mary Genesis 18:1-10a Colossians 1:24-28 Luke 10:38-42 The Book of Genesis, unfortunately, bears the burden of being remembered, and usually discussed, only in terms of its creation narratives. While the creation of all things and beings in existence by Almighty God is a major revelation, Genesis has much more to say than […]
Viriditas: Sister Agnella Iu, Carmelites
The simplicity of love The Carmelites prefer not to have their individual photos taken. Here is a picture of their convent on the Koolau slopes. In the daily life of Carmel, it is the presence of God that keeps us going. Here, we have a twofold mission to be, and to live, in God’s presence. […]
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