Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Archives for July 2014

It takes a (kupuna) village: St. Francis Healthcare responds to changing needs

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An artist’s rendering of the future independent living complex for seniors at the Liliha Kupuna Village, a new venture of the St. Francis Healthcare System. (image courtesy of Gregg Maedo + Associates, Inc.)   The Islands’ only Catholic healthcare system has undergone many changes in the last several years, and this summer it continues to […]

St. Marianne: Arrival from Syracuse, a second and final time

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Honolulu again will give an aloha welcome to Hawaii’s beloved saint who is returning for permanent rest St. Marianne Cope’s remains will return to Hawaii to be enshrined in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace nearly a decade after they were exhumed in Kalaupapa to rest at her motherhouse in Syracuse. All that is […]

Iraqi patriarch: Situation perhaps ‘darkest and most difficult period’

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A Christian woman who fled from the violence in Mosul, Iraq, holds her daughter as her baby sleeps June 27 at a shelter in Irbil, Iraq. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad said the city of Mosul “is almost empty of Christians.” (CNS photo/Ahmed Jadallah, Reuters)   AMMAN, Jordan The patriarch of the Chaldean […]

Pope Francis to sex abuse survivors: ‘And I ask for the grace to weep’

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Pope Francis kisses a child during his June 25 general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters)   VATICAN CITY Here is the Vatican’s English translation of the homily Pope Francis gave in Spanish July 7 during a Mass with victims of clerical sexual abuse: The scene where Peter sees […]

Viriditas: Sister Miriam Dionise Cabacungan, Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities

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Providence will provide Our first patient in our newly opened hospice program in Nuuanu was an elderly Hawaiian-Japanese lady. She was dying of cancer and very weak. It was hard to even sit her up in a chair. One day, as I was trying to figure out how to help her, I bent over, put […]

Obituary: Don Chu | 1933-2014

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A prominent leader in Marriage Encounter, family ministry Don Chu, who with his wife June was a prominent leader in the Catholic Marriage Encounter movement and headed the diocesan family life ministry office in the 1980s, died July 10 at Kahala Nui’s Hiolani Care Center in Honolulu. He was 81. His funeral services are July […]

Minors at border should be considered ‘refugees’

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WASHINGTON From the head of the U.S. agency in charge of the welfare of more than 50,000 Central American children who have been apprehended at the Mexican border, to the Honduran cardinal who heads the international Catholic relief agency, Caritas, the message was clear, those minors are as much refugees as the people fleeing upheaval […]

Chapter on abuse is not closed while people still suffer, says archbishop

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ROME The crisis of child abuse by clergy is not a thing of the past — it will linger until the church humbly and courageously reaches out to all people still suffering in silence, said Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin. “To some it might seem less than prudent to think that the church would go […]