NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — July 4, 1969
CYO Camp Hauula Offering Hundreds Fun-Filled Summer Vacation
Left, there is a bunch of happy youngsters breaking the solitude of the former Sacred Hearts Seminary in Hauula. These are the campers enjoying the vacation filled with recreation religious education, and arts and crafts. …
The CYO Camp Hauula, made possible through the diocesan fundraising program Project Hawaii, is in its third week of a ten-week camping program for children of Oahu, many of whom are under-privileged.
25 years ago — July 15, 1994
Bishop gives ok to female altar servers
Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo has officially allowed altar girls in the Diocese of Honolulu, four months after the Vatican granted permission to the universal church to use female altar servers.
In a July 1 letter to pastors, the apostolic administrator wrote that he was “now directing all parishes to plan to introduce the practice of having both male and female altar servers” beginning July 11.
10 years ago — June 26, 2009
Hawaii, Capuchins blessed with new priest
Hawaii has a new priest.
Marvin Bearis, a big Ewa Beach boy with close-cropped hair and a bushy goatee, dressed in the sandals and the brown hooded robe of the Capuchin Franciscans, the son of Ben and Carmen, was ordained by Bishop Larry Silva during a jubilant Mass June 13 in the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu.
Family and friends from Guam to Boston filled the church. Eight fellow Capuchin priests, three of whom flew in from points east and west, and 22 Hawaii priests formed a backdrop of presbyteral brotherhood for the almost two-hour-long liturgy.