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50 years ago — July 5, 1963
For 44 days, from the end of June to the beginning of August in 1963, members of the Islands’ press community were involved in a strike against the Hawaii Newspaper Agency. No issues of the Hawaii Catholic Herald were printed during that time.
25 years ago — July 8, 1988
Bishop appoints new director for social ministries
Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario has appointed a professor of urban and regional planning, who has long been active in the Catholic social justice arena, to head social ministry for the Diocese of Honolulu.
The appointee, Tom Dinell, 60, replaces Rollie Smith as Coordinator for Social Ministry and director of Catholic Charities. As such he will hold one of the top administrative positions in the diocese. Smith left the joint position last month for a post in Cleveland, Ohio.
According to the office’s job description, Dinell’s task will be to “advise and assist the Bishop in responding to social needs and in planning, coordinating and administrating the social ministries of the diocese.”
10 years ago — July 4, 2003
A sacred place, a gathering place
In June, the countryside that surrounds the Church of St. Senan of the parish of Cloghroe, in Inniscarra, County Cork, Ireland, is strikingly green and beautiful.
So reports Father Gary Secor who was there June 27 for the funeral of a friend, Father Bartholomew O’Leary, who died the Sunday before.
June was the month that, 57 years prior in the same church, Father O’Leary was baptized. And it was also in June and in St. Senan’s that he was ordained. He is now buried in a special spot in the church cemetery overlooking the town of Tower where he was born.
Father O’Leary was a priest of the Diocese of Honolulu who served in Hawaii for 20 years, from 1970 to 1990, before Parkinson’s disease forced him to leave. He was 57 when he died on June 22.