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50 years ago — Oct. 13, 1967
Four Holy Family Sisters stand near the “cottage” built at Kamalo, Molokai by the people there for the nuns. The nuns will commute weekly to and from Molokai for religious instructions in both parishes. Pictured near the cottage are (left to right) Sister Ancilla, Sister Ruth, Sister Joanna the superior, and Sister Christopher.
25 years ago — Oct. 9, 1992
Road to recovery
“The place is really cleaned up.”
That was Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario’s first reaction upon his return visit to Kauai this past Monday, Oct. 5.
“The properties are clear,” he told the Hawaii Catholic Herald this week. “All the rubble is gone.”
The bishop visited the sites of all five Catholic parishes on Kauai, three weeks after his first post-hurricane trip three days after (Hurricane Iniki). He met with all five pastors and the principals of the Garden Isle’s two Catholic schools.
Bishop Ferrario handed each pastor a $5,000 check, the preliminary money from a diocese-wide second collection for Kauai this past weekend.
“Their spirits are good,” Bishop Ferrario said of the parish staffs. “However, it’s easy to see they need some rest.”
10 years ago — Oct. 5, 2007
Climate change demands new strategy, says Vatican official
Addressing the United Nations, a Vatican official said climate change demands a new cooperative international strategy in order to avoid a “bleak future.”
“Climate change is a serious concern and an inescapable responsibility for scientists and other experts, political and governmental leaders, local administrators and international organizations, as well as every sector of human society and each human person,” Msgr. Pietro Parolin, Vatican undersecretary of state, told the U.N. General Assembly Sept. 24 …
Msgr. Parolin spoke during a one-day U.N. summit on climate change attended by representatives of more than 150 countries. Its aim was to build momentum and political consensus for a major U.N.-sponsored conference on the same topic in December in Bali, Indonesia.
