By Michael Sainsbury Catholic News Service BANGKOK — When Deng Xiaoping took charge of the Chinese Communist Party in late 1978 and announced his program of reform, it was the beginning of the end of 39 years of isolation for China’s Christians. The year 1978 was also the beginning of the 27-year papacy of St. […]
Archives for October 2018
China-born priest left with mixed feelings about Vatican-China agreement
By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald The provisional Vatican-China agreement on appointments of Chinese Catholic bishops has left Diocese of Honolulu priest Father Paul Li with mixed emotions. Father Li, who was born and raised in China and started his seminary studies there in the “underground” Catholic Church before coming to Hawaii, said that there […]
Missing the sun, and the Spam
Care packages are a treat for diocesan seminarians on the mainland By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Father Alfred Guerrero remembers the homesickness that came with going away to school at Mount Angel Seminary in Oregon. It rained a lot. “I missed the Hawaii sun,” the now-parochial vicar at Our Lady of Good Counsel said. […]
Hawaii priest picked as synod participant
Father Robert Stark hopes to share stories of vulnerable, migrant youth at world assembly this month in Rome By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald At the synod in Rome this month, Blessed Sacrament Father Robert Stark hopes to tell the story of a 17-year-old boy he met this year at a church-run shelter on the […]
Parish News: Oct. 5, 2018
Click here for a pdf version of the Hawaii Catholic Herald Parish News pages for Oct. 5, 2019.
SISTER M. JEANETTE JOAQUIN, OSF |1927-2018
Lifetime as a Sister of St. Francis were ‘years of love’ Sister M. Jeanette Joaquin, a Sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities who spent decades teaching elementary school before serving in Hawaii parishes and in other ministries, died Sept. 12 at St. Francis Convent in Honolulu after a lengthy illness. She was 91 […]
Commentary: Celebrating Asian and Pacific Island Catholics
By Jayne Ragasa Mondoy Special to the Herald In July I received an invitation from Bishop Oscar Solis of Salt Lake City to join an advisory board of Catholic leaders from Asian and Pacific Island communities from across the country. Our task: to meet in Salt Lake City in late August to produce a plan […]
Parish offers support for those in mourning
Healing Hearts, a ministry of Mary, Star of the Sea Church in Waialae-Kahala, offers consolation and support for those mourning the loss of a loved one. This ministry provides participants an opportunity to explore mourning through Scripture, prayer, reflection and faith sharing. If you are coping with the loss of a loved one, you are […]
Talk story: A church on the move
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “This is what it means to be a church on the move: unafraid to go out and get involved, even when it might seem that we pour ourselves out, lose ourselves, in going forth to the weak, the neglected, those dwelling at the margins of life.” (Pope Francis in Lithuania, Sept. […]
Sister Shu Chen Wu, Maryknoll Sisters: Stepping beyond fear
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald One day I was reading the Hawaii Catholic Herald looking for a ministry to get involved in. I was new to Hawaii and did not know anyone yet. There was one article looking for volunteers, but the list of requirements was quite […]
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