NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — May 15, 1970
The First Tour Group of 1970 Is In Paris Today, Lourdes Tomorrow
Left, the first of five tours promoted through the Hawaii Catholic Herald left last Friday, May 8, for forty-two days of travel and fun around the world. Father Gerard Leicht, SS.CC., is the spiritual director on this group. The group is seen boarding their Northwest Orient Airliner at Honolulu International Airport.
25 years ago — May 19, 1995
Forever and Dever: After 41 remarkable years, Hawaii’s superintendent of Catholic Schools will soon retire
He may be as much an institution in the Catholic Church in Hawaii as the school system he oversees.
Sometime within the next 12 months this institution will step aside and retire.
Msgr. Daniel Joseph Dever would probably wince at being compared to the cold image of an institution, but the metaphor is offered affectionately and with some humor. For Msgr. Dever has been the superintendent of Catholic schools in Hawaii for 41 years! Forty-one years – an almost ridiculous length of time if it were not so remarkable!
10 years ago — May 14, 2010
Who is the church? – By Kathleen T. Choi
Several things distress me about the sex abuse scandals involving priests, deacons, and religious. Here’s just one: The clergy are not the church. They are a part of the church, an important, necessary part. However, they are by no means the whole church.
There are over a billion Catholics in the world. There are about 400,000 priests. That’s 2,500 laypeople for every priest. You and I are far more representative of the church than the pope is. So why is it that when someone mentions “the church,” they’re always talking about the clergy?