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50 years ago — March 26, 1965
The St. Joseph’s Redbirds, champions here in the Parks and Recreation and also the Laupahoehoe Invitational 12 year basketball tournament, are pictured above. The future Cardinals, pictured from left to right are, kneeling, Rodney Pacheco, mascot. Front row, Roy Shupe, Steven Carvalho, Leslie Tachibana, Ian Nagao, Moe Bello, Callen Perreira. Back row, Brother Duane Crockett, athletic director; Brian Nishimura, Brian Tanimoto, Joe Kailipaka, Stanley Pacheco Jr., Stanley Pacheco Sr., assistant coach. Missing from picture, Walter Victor, coach.
25 years ago — March 30, 1990
Sainthood for Juan Diego?
Top Mexican bishops said it is virtually certain Pope John Paul II will canonize one of the country’s leading religious figures, dispensing with some of the usual steps taken in declaring a saint.
In a March 22 press conference in Torreon during the semiannual meeting of the 92-member Mexican bishops’ conference, church officials said there is a high probability that the pope will canonize Juan Diego, a Mexican Indian to whom the Virgin is believed to have appeared in 1531.
Diego has not been beatified, as is normal before the final step of canonization. A conference spokesman said bypassing that step is rare but not unprecedented. …
The canonization would be the culmination of a long-standing cause of the Mexican church.
10 years ago — March 25, 2005
Cardinals to stand in for pope during Holy Week
The Vatican announced that a series of cardinals would be standing in for Pope John Paul II in the celebration of Holy Week events.
For the first time in his 26-year pontificate, the pope was not scheduled to preside over Holy Week and Easter celebrations, said a March 8 Vatican press statement.
However, the pope was expected to impart the papal blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city of Rome and the world) March 27, Easter, following Mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state.
Where the pope would be when he was to offer his Easter blessing “was left purposely vague,” said a Vatican official, since it was still unclear as to what extent the pope would be able to resume activities following his hospitalization for respiratory problems and a tracheotomy.