Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate.] June 25, 9:00 am, St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii Board of Directors (video conference). June 26, 10:00 am, Diocesan Review Board, Chancery, downtown Honolulu. June 26-27, Episcopal Visitation for Sacred Heart Parish, Punahou. June 29, 9:30 am, Bishop’s Administrative Advisory Council (video conference); 12:00 […]
Archives for June 2021
Three Carmelite Seculars make their first promises
Hawaii’s Discalced Carmelite Secular Group celebrated a “first promise” ceremony for three of its members June 5 in the Carmelite Monastery chapel on the grounds of St. Stephen Diocesan Center. Alda Mae Takabayashi, Elaine Gibson and Celia Ona made an initial three-year pledge to pursue personal holiness through Carmelite spirituality and to care for others […]
Heralding back: June 25, 2021
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago —July 9, 1971 PROJECT HAS WHEELS — Above, Sr. Maureen (Kelleher), Administrator of St. Francis Hospital; Reinhard Mohr, Director of Key Project; and Fr. Edwin J. Duffy, Director of Campaign for Human Development, pose before the new Volkswagen purchased by the Campaign for Human Development and a friend […]
Hawaii Catholic Herald wins 7 Catholic media awards for 2020 work
The Hawaii Catholic Herald won seven Catholic Media Association awards this year for work done in 2020. The newly renamed CMA (formerly the Catholic Press Association) held its second virtual Catholic Media Conference June 8-10. This year’s media awards were announced in a prerecorded video shown during a Zoom awards ceremony on June 10. Like […]
Bishop Silva moves forward with Joseph Dutton’s canonization cause
Hawaii Catholic Herald A third Molokai saint? Bishop Larry Silva has moved forward the possibility of a third canonized saint emerging from the five-square mile Molokai peninsula already sanctified by the lives of 8,000 people forcibly quarantined there for having Hansen’s disease. A one-page edict, dated, read and posted by the bishop on May 29, […]
Congratulations Class of 2021!
1classof2021-groups The Hawaii Catholic Herald congratulates the Hawaii’s Catholic high schools’ graduating seniors. Click here for pdf of the outstanding graduates, and here for the class photos.
St. Joseph: a discreet and hidden presence
This is the Year of St. Joseph. To mark the 150th anniversary of the foster father of Jesus being declared patron of the universal church, Pope Francis proclaimed the yearlong celebration in a Dec. 8, 2020, apostolic letter, “Patris Corde” (“With a Father’s Heart”). The pope wrote that Christians can discover in St. Joseph “the […]
Pope: Eucharist is bread of sinners, not reward of saints
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — People’s hearts and the entire church must be wide open to wonder and devotion to Christ and ready to embrace everyone — sinner and saint alike, Pope Francis said. “The church of the perfect and pure is a room where there isn’t a place for anyone; […]
India-born Missionary of Faith priest incardinated into diocese
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva on May 24 incardinated as a priest of the Diocese of Honolulu Father Sebastian Kumar Soosai, an India-born former member of the congregation of the Missionaries of Faith. The bishop also changed Father Soosai’s status from administrator of St. Roch Church, Kahuku, to pastor, effective […]
Authorities in China arrest underground bishop, priests
By Catholic News Service HONG KONG — Authorities in northern China have arrested a Vatican-appointed Catholic bishop, his seven priests and 10 seminarians in what is seen as part of a renewed crackdown on the underground Catholic Church in the communist country. Ucanews.com reported police arrested 63-year-old Bishop Joseph Zhang Weizhu of Xinxiang May […]