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50 years ago — May 7, 1965
The Honorable Neal Blaisdell, Mayor of Honolulu, proclaimed the week of May 24 to the 30 as Christian Youth Week in Honolulu. With the mayor (left to right) are Joyce Kamei of St. Andrew’s Priory, Harold Lagmay of Farrington Junior Newman Club, Carolyn Hering of Maryknoll, Beverly Chang as President of the DCCY, and Norman Nakamoto, CYO administrative assistant. (Luke’s Photo)
25 years ago — May 11, 1990
A helping hand
On the Sunday before Thanksgiving every year, a national collection is taken up in Hawaii’s parishes called the Campaign for Human Development. It is one of the island diocese’s most generous moments. Last year about $50,000 was collected.
The man who has headed the Campaign for Human Development for the past five years was in town this past March to help local Campaign efforts get up and running again after about a year in dormancy.
Father Alfred LoPinto, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Campaign for Human Development, gave a two-day workshop to eight of the 12 members of the four-month-old Hawaii Campaign for Human Development board of directors. He also visited Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario and some of the projects the local Campaign has funded.
10 years ago — May 6, 2005
The beatification is on!
The beatification of Mother Marianne of Molokai will take place this month in Rome after all.
The ceremony, originally scheduled in February for 10 a.m. on Pentecost Sunday, May 15, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, had been postponed after the election of Pope Benedict XVI. It has been rescheduled for either May 14 or 16, according to the Diocese of Syracuse, home diocese of Mother Marianne Cope and her Sisters of St. Francis order. …
The postponement had threatened to derail two months of intense planning on the part of the Sisters of St. Francis of Syracuse and Hawaii, and the Diocese of Syracuse. More than 300 people from Syracuse and 40 from Hawaii had bought non-refundable tour packages to Rome for the event.