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50 years ago — July 30, 1965
1965 Oahu CYO Softball Champions: St. Elizabeth’s Church captured the Championship for 2 straight years. The team are as follows: Front Row. Left to Right: Philip Garcia, Damien Robello, Carlton Robello, Antone Gabriel, Michael Robello, Lemul Moi, Wayne Kama, and Henry Carvalho Jr. Middle Row: Henry Carvalho Sr., Manager, Samuel Stevens, Marvin Liu, Leo Koslowski, Tuufuli Uperasa, Alvin Luka, and Raymond Kekona. Back Row. Kenneth Hatfield, Frank Barnes, Ronald Mattos, and Fred Barnes. (Luke Photo.)
25 years ago — Aug. 3, 1990
A new Island priest by way of the Bronx
“The Spirit works in strange ways,” Joseph A. Grimaldi said.
By “strange,” Hawaii’s newest candidate for priesthood actually meant ordinary, down to earth, everyday, common, and therefore unexpected, ways. Like your average, run-of-the mill mid-life crisis.
That’s how the wavy-haired Italian from the Bronx who turns 50 next month explained his “late” and latest vocation to the Hawaii Catholic Herald last week.
Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario will ordain Grimaldi at 10 a.m., Aug. 4, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa.
This ordination is unique because Grimaldi was a Christian Brother for more than 25 years before beginning his studies to the priesthood. He taught and administered in Catholic high schools from 1962 to 1986. For six of those years, 1974-80, he was principal of Damien Memorial High School in Kalihi.
10 years ago — July 29, 2005
Bishop of the people
Hawaii’s Catholics welcomed their new shepherd with a jubilant arena-sized embrace July 21 with the ordination and installation of island-born Clarence R. Silva as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Honolulu. An estimated 5,000 people gathered in the Neal Blaisdell Center Arena to witness and participate in a liturgy radiant with color and tradition, brimming with glorious music and enlivened by exuberant spontaneous applause. …
Bishop “Larry” Silva, 55, appeared overcome with emotion at various parts of the symbol-rich three-hour liturgy that elevated him first from priest to bishop, and then to bishop of the church in Hawaii.
He stepped into his new position with grace and humility. “As in the past Christ called unworthy and weak men to be his apostles, even today he has done so in calling me to serve you as a successor of the apostles, your bishop,” he said in his post-Communion address.
