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50 years ago — July 1, 1966
Donald W. C. Won of Waipahu, a former Army Communications supervisor has been accepted as a full-time student and prospective candidate for a degree. A career Army man who retired with the rank of sergeant first class last December, Won is the first to take advantage of the terms of the Cold War Bill. He expects to graduate in 1968 in business administration. He is shown with Rev. David Schuyler S.M., registering. (Kort Photo)
25 years ago — July 5, 1991
Diocesan convocation to feature leading U.S. expert on Catholic social teaching
Hawaii Catholics have the opportunity to hear one of the United States’ Emost influential writers and speakers on social justice issues this summer at the diocese’s Convocation on Catholic Social Teaching.
Father J. Bryan Hehir, professor of ethics and international politics at Georgetown University, advisor to the U.S. bishops Harvard lecturer, and recipient of 19 honorary degrees, will speak on the second day of the Aug. 16-17 event.
The convocation celebrates the 100th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical “Rerum Novarum,” considered to be the church’s first landmark document on modern social teaching.
The convocation is entitled “Faith in Action: A Convocation of Catholic Social Teaching and the Church in Hawaii.”
10 years ago — June 30, 2006
His priesthood inspired by Damien, Father Eustaquio is himself beatified
Father Eustaquio Van Lieshout, a native of Holland who, inspired by the example of Blessed Damien de Veuster of Molokai, became a priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts, was beatified June 15 in an open-air Mass in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, celebrated by Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Saints’ Causes.
After Blessed Damien, he is the second member of his order to be beatified.
Blessed Eustaquio was born Humbert van Lieshout, the eighth of 11 children of a devout farming family in Aarle-Rixtel, Holland, on Nov. 3, 1890. …
After reading a biography of Father Damien de Veuster, the young Humbert decided to join the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts. Studies proved difficult, especially languages, but his teachers recognized and encouraged his dedication, will and disposition toward the missionary religious life.