By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Maybe it was the request by the Pentagon for 20,000 mattresses as military bases become, at least partly, shelters for detained border crossers. Maybe it was the federal government report that 2,342 children had been separated from 2,206 parents at the U.S.-Mexico border between May 5 and […]
Archives for June 2018
Heralding back: June 29, 2018
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — June 28, 1968 Miss Loretto Sweeney, sister of Bishop James J. Sweeney, gives her brother a final kiss before the casket was closed for the Mass. Monsignor Charles A. Kekumano, seated at the left, served as a pallbearer. 25 years ago — July 2, 1993 Gettin’ some […]
Back to school, 50 years later
Half of the St. Anthony School, Kailua, Class of 1968 is set to reunite for the first time since their eighth grade graduation By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Most haven’t seen each other in 50 years but they couldn’t be more excited to get together. The St. Anthony School, Kailua, Class of 1968 will […]
Hawaii Catholic Herald wins four awards at Catholic Media Conference in Green Bay
The Hawaii Catholic Herald won four journalism awards in writing and design June 15 at the Catholic Media Conference in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Catholic Press Association prizes were for work done in the year 2017. Darlene J.M. Dela Cruz won first place in the “Best Reporting on the Celebration of a Sacrament Non-Weekly Diocesan […]
Catholic agency building 20 units for those displaced by eruption
HOPE Services Hawaii has partnered with some 20 local construction and engineering companies By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald HOPE Services Hawaii, an affiliate agency of the Diocese of Honolulu, together with an outpouring of community help, is building 20 temporary shelters on Catholic Church property in Pahoa to help some of those displaced by […]
Hawaii Catholic High Schools’ Class of 2018
Click here for a pdf of the Hawaii Catholic Herald Special Section for Hawaii Catholic high schools’ Class of 2018.
Chaplains: ministry on the front lines
Hawaii sisters and clergy who serve in hospice, hospital, prison and university describe their work By Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Chaplains serve on the front lines. They go where ordinary ministers don’t always go: hospital emergency rooms, hospices, war zones, military bases, prisons, police stations, schools, the halls of Congress. Whenever […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Do you remember who you are?
WITNESS TO JESUS | TENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Here is the text of the Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the Tenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, delivered June 10 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Downey, Calif. The bishop was in California for a retreat for the priests of Orange County. Do you remember […]
Father Peter Miti, diocesan priest: It is Christ who strengthens me every day
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Somehow, I always wanted to be a missionary. The desire was like second nature to me. In 1994, I left Zambia and joined the Passionist order in Botswana. Since then, I have always been on the go. Studies in philosophy took me […]
St. Damien’s first assignment: ‘the district close to the big volcano’
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald “I was first placed in the district close to the big volcano, this ancient divinity of our Kanakas who to our day still has his adorers.” St. Damien wrote those words in 1865 in a letter to France describing his first missionary deployment (and incorrectly identifying the volcano diety […]