NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — Jan. 30, 1970
What’s Missing in Your Mailbox?
(A little newspaper promotion from the front page of the Hawaii Catholic Herald by the publisher.)
25 years ago — Jan. 27, 1995
Chaplain of Corrections
What kind of person does it take to turn a drab, multi-purpose room in a women’s prison into a brightly colored sanctuary and chapel where inmates searching for spiritual guidance and help can find respect and peace?
A person like the vibrant yet patient Franciscan Sister of Philadelphia Rochelle Liu. She answered the call for a religious woman to serve as a full-time chaplain for the Women’s Community Correctional Center in Olomana on Windward Oahu, a request put out over a year ago by Father Jim Berry, head of prison ministry for the Diocese of Honolulu and other concerned people.
Editor’s Note: Sister Rochelle Liu was called back to the mainland by her order in 2013 and is now serving in Tacoma, Washington. Deacon Will Friese is the current diocesan prison ministry volunteer coordinator.
10 years ago — Feb. 5, 2010
Mother Marianne is back, an inspiration larger than life
Mother Marianne is back in Hawaii, larger than life.
This time, she’s a bronze statue, striding on a grassy knoll at Honolulu’s Kewalo Basin Park toward the blue ocean lapping at a seawall a few short yards away. Her left arm is stretched toward Molokai hidden behind the hazy horizon.
Bishop Larry Silva blessed Hawaii’s first public sculpture of the saint-candidate on the morning of her feast day, Jan. 23, at a ceremony that brought together 150 people, including several dozen members of her own religious community, the Sisters of St. Francis, who commissioned the statue.
