NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — Dec. 12, 1969
Missionary Oriented Nuns, Maryknoll, Serves in Hawaii
FASCINATION—Sister Mary Wesig, M.M., left, enjoys the attention of her second graders as she explains the structure of a simple flower to her inquisitive audience.
25 years ago — Nov. 30, 1994
Analysis: To the future
On Nov. 30, the Catholic Church in Hawaii will gain a bishop younger than the diocese and younger than most of our diocesan priests. He will be Hawaii’s first bishop to be ordained a priest after the Second Vatican Council. He is the first island bishop to have served several years in the episcopacy elsewhere, and the first “outsider” to assume the bishop’s chair in more than 50 years.
All this points to change for the diocese when Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo, 52, becomes Bishop of Honolulu in a two-ceremony event, Nov. 29 and 30 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa.
10 years ago — Nov. 27, 2009
Old Kauai plantation church quietly closes its doors forever
One of the diocese’s more unusual churches, St. Joseph Mission in Kaumakani, Kauai, was closed by its pastor, La Salette Father Danilo Galang, with a last Mass on Oct. 10, marking the end of the 96-year-old “plantation parish.”
The mission, an inconspicuous building that had once been a pool hall … was the successor of an earlier St. Joseph Church in nearby Makaweli.
The Gay & Robinson Sugar Plantation, which owns the building and land, ended its sugar operation in October.