By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Richard Port first learned of the permanent diaconate in the early 1960s in Ghana, West Africa, where he and his wife Ann (Antonette) were teaching secondary school in President John F. Kennedy’s newly established Peace Corps. There, on Sundays, the corps’ first married couple would hitchhike 25 miles to […]
Archives for April 2021
State of the pews
Has church attendance gone back to normal now that the Mass dispensation is lifted in the Diocese of Honolulu? By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva lifted his dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to the COVID-19 pandemic on Easter Sunday. The pass on going to Mass had been in […]
Bishop Larry Silva: You, too, are shepherds
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER This is the prepared text for Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, April 24 and 25, and the celebration of Confirmation and first Communion at Sacred Heart Church, Punahou, and Mary, Star of the Sea Church, Waialae-Kahala. Children often ask me why I carry this staff. I […]
Mary Adamski: Two final farewells
VIEW FROM THE PEW Some tell me I’m missing a lot and urgently need to break out of my COVID cloister by zooming, binge-watching, livestreaming. I do long to see the faces of distant family but I’m a TIP (technologically impaired person) and I need those guys here beside me to teach me Zoom 101. […]
Sister M. Emilie Basitas, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: Without prayer, I would not be here
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald As a temporary professed sister, I used to dread applying for our yearly renewal of vows. One in my group was thinking of joining the cloistered nuns, and so was I. However, one year my superior said to me, “Em, Em, you […]
New ecumenical/interfaith officer comes with a ‘natural’ interest in the ministry
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva has named Father William Kunisch II, pastor of Resurrection of the Lord Church, Waipio, as the new diocesan ecumenical/interfaith officer. He started April 21. Father Kunisch succeeds the late Father Jack Ryan who died Dec. 7, 2020. It is a post he held once before, from […]
Official notices: April 30, 2021
Bishop’s Schedule May 1, 10:00 am, Mass with Confirmation & First Holy Communion, St. Elizabeth Parish, Aiea; 5:00 pm, Mass with Confirmation & First Holy Communion, St. John the Baptist Parish, Kalihi. May 2, 5:00 pm, Mass with Confirmation & First Holy Communion, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, Ewa Beach. May 4, 9:30 am, […]
Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: April 30, 2021
Hi Heraldites, Thanks to Chrislyn Villena for sharing this joke in the Hawaii Catholic Herald Families Facebook group: How did God illuminate his message? He used the Israelites! -H.C. Harold PRINTABLE QUIZ 1) Vatican II True or False: Two popes presided over the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II. a) True b) False 2) […]
St. Joseph has never failed us
By Carmelite Nuns of Salt Lake City Catholic News Service St. Joseph is no stranger to Carmel! He is the protector of our order. As our holy mother St. Teresa of Avila once wrote: “I took for my patron and Lord the glorious St. Joseph. … I cannot call to mind that I have ever […]
Carole Norris Greene: Chauvin’s threefold conviction
COMMENTARY Never underestimate evil. It has a way of coming back, of reinventing itself, of absorbing into itself anything that feeds into it. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was indeed found guilty on all three charges against him in the killing of George Floyd in 2020. He is in a maximum security prison. People […]
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