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50 years ago — Dec. 22, 1967
An editorial cartoon in the Dec. 22, 1967, Hawaii Catholic Herald issue.
25 years ago — Dec. 18, 1992
Missionaries of Charity visit bishop to discuss possibilities of opening Hawaii community
Responding to an invitation from Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario to work in the Diocese of Honolulu, three Missionaries of Charity met with the bishop Dec. 11 to discuss the possibility of opening a community here.
The three, Sisters Raphaela, Sylvia and Kateri, belong to the religious order founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India. They are part of the congregation’s San Francisco community. …
Four lay Missionaries of Charity accompanied the three sisters on their visit to the bishop. Hawaii also has about 20 Co-Workers of Mother Teresa who are associated with the international Co-Workers.
10 years ago — Dec. 14, 2007
Without God, there is no hope
In an encyclical on Christian hope, Pope Benedict XVI said that, without faith in God, humanity lies at the mercy of ideologies that can lead to “the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice.”
The pope warned that the modern age has replaced belief in eternal salvation with faith in progress and technology, which offer opportunities for good but also open up “appalling possibilities for evil.”
“Let us put it very simply: Man needs God, otherwise he remains without hope,” he said in the encyclical, “Spe Salvi” (on Christian hope), released Nov. 30.
The 76-page text explored the essential connection between faith and hope in early Christianity and addressed what it called a “crisis of Christian hope” in modern times.