Five boys and girls, ages 9 to 14, from St. Ann Church, Kaneohe, and Sacred Heart Church, Waianae, were the winners of the Knights of Columbus Hawaii State Council Free Throw Championships April 8 at St. Stephen Diocesan Center, Kaneohe. Tayden Poti of Council 11485, Waianae, was the 9-year-old boys’ champion. Kawena Kapu of Council […]
Archives for April 2017
Father Eugene Hemrick: Is there no respect these days?
Is a new age of disrespect upon us? Are we experiencing growing impertinence, insolence and contempt? This leads us to ask what exactly respect is. Our best answer can be found in the transfiguration of Christ. To escape the crowds, Christ, Peter, James and John ascend a mountain in search of peace and quiet. Once […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: God’s mercy triumphs
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts 2:42-47; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31 With deep faith and faith-filled excitement, the church continues the celebration it began a week and a day ago of Easter, the Lord’s resurrection and final victory over death and sin. As is the case in almost every Mass of this season, the first […]
Effie Caldarola: A volunteer’s experience
ON THE JOURNEY The Jesuit Volunteer Corps was young — and so was I — when I first arrived at a remote Alaskan village to teach school at a Jesuit boarding school for Native Alaskan students as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. There were no cellphones yet, and the internet did not exist. […]
Chaminade presenting seminar on pathway to workplace peace
Maya Soetoro-Ng, the director of the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, University of Hawaii at Manoa and maternal half-sister of President Barack Obama, will be the keynote speaker at Chaminade University’s “Pathways to Peace in the Workplace,” a seminar 7-9 p.m., April 28, in the university’s Mystical Rose Oratory. Also speaking […]
Maryknoll Affiliates meeting to share past, plan future
Maryknoll Affiliates of Hawaii is meeting April 29, 10-11:30 a.m. in the Alumni Room of the Maryknoll School Community Building, 1722 Dole Street in Honolulu. Are you interested in service and learning across borders, on other continents? If so, come to the meeting to hear and share experiences. Meet the Maryknoll Sisters and Maryknoll Affiliates […]
Creating voice: Students inspired by Kalaupapa
By Kanoe Turner Special to the Herald Writing does not come easily for everyone. Being able to express yourself on paper so that your readers can feel, taste and smell what you are creating in words, but also to generate a voice that is so powerful it becomes real, is especially difficult for young and […]
Photos: Blessing of the holy oils
Representatives from Oahu parishes brought oils to be blessed for sacramental needs, right, to the Chrism Mass at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, April 6. Bishop Larry Silva, above, was the main celebrant of the Mass. He blessed and consecrated the Sacred Chrism by stirring fragrant balsam into a large container of oil placed in […]
Heralding back: April 21, 2017
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — April 21, 1967 During a break in the busy schedule of last week’s meeting of U.S. Bishops at Chicago, Bishop John J. Scanlan, auxiliary of Honolulu (right) chats with Bishop George Leech of Harrisburg (left) and Bishop William Condon of Great Falls (center). Bishop Scanlan is currently […]
Talk story: Salt, light for the homeless
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Jesus does want us to come at least every Sunday so that he can physically embrace us with his love. But he also wants us to be salt and light once we leave here as well. We do that by sharing our bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and homeless, […]