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50 years ago — March 10, 1967
A Lenten editorial cartoon from the March 10, 1967 Hawaii Catholic Herald issue.
25 years ago — March 13, 1992
Hawaii’s Benedictine monastery given independent status
The Benedictine Monastery of Hawaii, for more than eight years an offshoot of an abbey in New Mexico, has been established as an independent monastery by the congregation’s abbot general in Italy.
In December, at the request of the Hawaii monastery and with the consent of Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario, the generalate or main governing house of the Olivetan Benedictine Congregation worldwide decreed the five-man, one woman community in Waialua to be an “autonomous monastery.”
The abbot general also approved the subsequent January appointment of Benedictine Father David M. Barfknecht as the superior of the community.
10 years ago — March 9, 2007
Fire damages original St. Anthony Church in Kailua
A fire during the early hours of March 1 at St. Anthony Parish in Kailua destroyed part of the original 73-year-old church building, now used as an art classroom for the school.
The Honolulu Fire Department determined the fire was caused by a defective electrical switch. School security cameras show smoke shortly after 1 a.m. About 15 minutes later, three men pulled up in a pick-up truck and waited until fire trucks arrived to direct them to the fire. Another call to 911 was made presumably by neighbors.
Parish project administrator Elaine Hogue said firefighters told St. Anthony’s pastor, Father Dennis Koshko, that if the fire had gone on four minutes longer, it could have become “combustible.”