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50 years ago — Oct. 22, 1965
George Barati (right) rehearses with Shigeru Hotoke (filling in for Richard Kness, tenor, who had not arrived from Washington), Ethel Chung Maxson, Eunice DeMello, and Charles Scharbach (left to right) for tonight’s performance of Beethoven’s MISSA SOLEMNIS. This is the first time this masterpiece has been presented in Hawaii. It is being presented jointly by the Honolulu Symphony Society and the Opera Festival Chorus. (Photo by Camera Hawaii)
25 years ago — Oct. 26, 1990
Real sexual liberation
The message was simple. The church’s teachings on sexuality are good, intelligent, liberating and — despite what you may have heard — easy to follow. And they work. So why are these teachings ignored, rejected or even ridiculed? Because they are not being taught well or taught at all.
The message belonged to Capuchin Franciscan Father Ronald Lawler, a moral theologian and well-known author on Catholic sexual ethics, who was invited here from Pittsburgh by the diocesan Life Issues Committees to speak on respect for life. …
Approximately 120 people gathered at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa on Oct. 14 and a similarly-sized crowd met at Star of the Sea Church the next day to hear what was essentially a spiritual message. Father Lawler told the mostly lay audiences that those who follow Jesus must accept his teaching however difficult that teaching might seem to be.
10 years ago — Oct. 21, 2005
Kona confirmation class wins grand prize
The 10 students in St. Michael Parish confirmation class in Kailua-Kona have won the grand prize in this year’s Catholic Campaign for Human Development multi-media youth arts contest.
The winning entry is a 10-minute DVD they produced titled, “Let Their Voices Be Heard! Public Housing and Homelessness in Hawaii.”
The class will travel to Atlanta, Ga., to receive the $1,000 prize at the National Catholic Youth Conference on Oct. 29. The award will be divided between the group members and a St. Michael Parish social ministry advocacy group. …
The DVD begins with one of the students making an alarming statement directly to the camera: “If poverty were an island it would be the third largest island in the state of Hawaii.”
The documentary combines facts about homelessness, with a wide range of interviews, personal reflection and advocacy.