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50 years ago — July 21, 1967
New apartment houses and business offices are reaching skyward in Kailua and are thus changing the skyline of this community. St. Anthony’s Church is also contributing to this changing skyline with the erection of a new church on its Kalaheo Avenue site. The new church under construction will have a seating capacity of nearly 900. It is in the form of a cross with seating in all four wings. The Blessed Sacrament altar will be in the top of the cross section with baptistery and sacristies behind it. The main altar will be in the center of the crossing arms of the cross. Completion is set for late fall. Contractor is Karl Schuler and the architect is John H. McAuliffe. A.I.A. The Polynesian style roof beams are of laminated wood and the supporting pillars are coral aggregate.
25 years ago — July 17, 1992
A Portuguese whaler’s legacy
The legacy of a young Portuguese man who jumped a whaling ship in Honolulu Harbor more than a century ago has turned into a notable contribution for Hawaii Catholic school children.
That Portuguese whaler’s name was Antone Lopes. On July 1, his grandson Alvin Lopez, representing A.J. Lopez Sons, Inc., handed Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario a check for $50,000 to be put into a perpetual scholarship fund for students of five Oahu Catholic elementary schools.
The trust is named the “Antone J. and Mary C. Lopez Endowment Fund” after Alvin’s parents who had seven sons, six of whom are still living.
“We are grateful to our father and mother who gave us a Catholic education,” Lopez told the bishop.
10 years ago — July 13, 2007
Pope relaxes restrictions on use of Tridentine Mass
In a long-awaited overture to disaffected Catholic traditionalists, Pope Benedict XVI relaxed restrictions on the use of the Tridentine Mass, the Latin-language liturgy that predates the Second Vatican Council.
The pope said Mass celebrated according to the 1962 Roman Missal, commonly known as the Tridentine rite, should be made available in every parish where groups of the faithful desire it.
He said that while the new Roman Missal, introduced in 1970, remains the ordinary way of Catholic worship, the 1962 missal should be considered “the extraordinary expression of the law of prayer.”
This implies no liturgical division, he said, but simply “two uses of the one Roman rite.”
The pope’s directive came July 7 in a four-page apostolic letter to the world’s bishops titled “Summorum Pontificum.” The new norms will take effect Sept. 14, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.