NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Feb. 23, 1968 Bishop Scanlan leans over the table to speak to some of the guests at the annual “Meet the Bishop” banquet held on Monday at the Ala Moana Banquet Hall. It is sponsored yearly by the Oahu Council of the Holy Name Societies. 25 years […]
Archives for February 2018
Jim Lackey, longtime CNS editor who embraced old and new media, retires
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Jim Lackey, recently retired longtime editor at Catholic News Service, would be hard-pressed to choose between old and new media. As Web editor and manager for CNS for the past decade, Lackey certainly got the importance of new media — and its broad outreach on […]
Former Chaminade president is new assistant provincial of U.S. Marianists
The former president of Chaminade University of Honolulu, Marianist Brother Bernard Ploeger, has been appointed assistant provincial of the Marianist Province of the United States. The new provincial is Marianist Father Oscar Vasquez. They, plus five additional members of the provincial council will take office on Aug. 1. The council members were chosen following a […]
Sister Joan E. Souza, OSF | 1938-2018
Franciscan served in Hawaii, New York Sister Joan E. Souza, a Kauai-born Sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities who ministered at Catholic schools and religious education departments in Hawaii and in New York, died Feb. 6 at St. Francis Hospice in Nuuanu. She was 79. This year marks her 60th anniversary in religious […]
Sister Dorothy Santos, SSCC | 1912-2018
Lifelong teacher was also a prolific mosaic artist By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Sacred Hearts Sister Dorothy Santos, a lifelong teacher and mosaic artist whose craftwork is displayed in places around the world, died Feb. 1 at Malia O Ka Malu Convent in Kaimuki. She was 96 and a religious sister for 76 years. Her […]
School shooting an act of ‘horrifying evil,’ says Miami archbishop
By Catholic News Service MIAMI — Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski urged community members to come together “to support one another in this time of grief” after a shooting rampage Feb. 14 at a Broward County high school left at least 17 people dead and at least 14 injured. “With God’s help, we can remain […]
Case involving transfer of Archbishop Sheen’s body is returned to N.Y. court
NEW YORK — The case involving the transfer of the remains of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen from New York to Peoria, Illinois, has been sent back to the original court by the New York Court of Appeals for an evidentiary hearing. Archbishop Sheen, a Peoria diocesan priest, gained fame in the 1950s with a prime-time […]
2 Hawaii Catholic school students named state’s top youth volunteers
Two Catholic school students have been named Hawaii’s top youth volunteers of 2018 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism. Mahealani Sims-Tulba, 17, a senior at Sacred Hearts Academy, and Grace Kennedy, 13, an eighth grader at St. Anthony School in Kailua each will […]
Official notices: Feb. 23, 2018
Bishop’s calendar Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate] February 24, 5:00 pm, Scout Mass, St. John Vianney Parish, Kailua. February 27, 9:00 am, Diocesan Finance Council, Chancery, downtown Honolulu; 12:00 pm, Hawaii Catholic Conference Board, Chancery; 5:30 pm, Meeting of the Members and Directors of St. Anthony School of Maui Foundation, […]
Vatican denies Pope Benedict has degenerative condition
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Vatican denied that retired Pope Benedict XVI has a degenerative neurological disease or paralyzing condition after his brother, 94-year-old Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, told a magazine that Pope Benedict had a debilitating disease. In an interview published Feb. 13 in the German weekly entertainment magazine, […]
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