Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Archives for February 2017

Hawaii’s catechumens 2017

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West Honolulu Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Honolulu Damour Danny Tammy Martin Jayden Takeuo Jdee Takeuo Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, Honolulu Myah Aviguetero Shawne Balacan Nalani Dela Cruz Tehani Enfield Isaac Franklin John Theodore Franklin Lisa Aiko Parker Mel Rosario Ramos Doui Marceline Sewa Andrew Smith Josephyn Ve‘a Holy Family, Honolulu Caylen Corpus […]

Rooted in hope

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A Big Island breadfruit planting project is spotlighted in the Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl campaign By Darlene J.M. Dela Cruz Hawaii Catholic Herald India. Zambia. El Salvador. Mexico. Ethiopia. Hawaii? In this year’s Lenten Rice Bowl campaign, Catholic Relief Services is shining the spotlight on a grassroots outreach project on the Big Island among […]

Hawaii Catholic leaders add to backlash against Trump’s refugee executive order

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald A number of Catholic leaders in Hawaii have added their voices to the critical backlash against President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order banning immigrants and refugees from seven mostly Muslim nations. The directive created a firestorm of controversy as it initially blocked the entry of refugees slated to […]

Bishop happy with choice of new seminary president

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva is pleased with the selection of Jesuit Father George F. Schultze as president-rector and vice chancellor of St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California, where seminarians for the Diocese of Honolulu earn their theology degrees. Archbishop of San Francisco Salvatore Cordileone, chancellor of the […]

New diocesan directory lists half of Hawaii’s parish priests as foreign

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Almost half of the priests manning Hawaii’s Catholic parishes come from foreign countries according to the 2017 Directory of the Catholic Church in Hawaii. There are 120 priests in active ministry in the Islands. They include 34 who belong to the Diocese of Honolulu, 33 from outside, mostly foreign, […]

Mary Adamski: LOL

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VIEW FROM THE PEW The perfect, definitive model for a meaningful Lent. I’ve got it. Hang in there, I’ll share it. In my first take of this column, I took hundreds of words to get to the punchline. Wise and witty words they were. Sure to lose readers the more I wandered on through my […]

Vatican summit participants vow efforts to stop organ trafficking

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — A Vatican summit on organ trafficking called for greater efforts to prevent the exploitation of those vulnerable to corrupt health professionals and criminal networks making the sale of human organs possible. “We, the undersigned participants of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences summit on organ trafficking, resolve […]