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50 years ago — Jan. 26, 1973
In Memoriam
Most Reverend John J. Scanlan, Bishop of Honolulu, and Catholics throughout the State of Hawaii, were touched by the sad news of the death of former president Lyndon B. Johnson. Mr. Johnson endeared himself to Catholics generally by his willingness to listen to them sympathetically … he worked for just and equal treatment for all in such matters as education and the war on poverty. He expressed his pride in his daughter’s embracing of the Catholic Faith and he himself attended Catholic Mass frequently throughout his presidency. One such occasion was Mr. Johnson’s attendance at a Mass at St. Augustine Church offered by Bishop Scanlan. (Pictured here outside the church with Gov. Jack Burns)
25 years ago — Jan. 23, 1998
Christian response to culture of death is fidelity
The Christian response to the “culture of death” is “fidelity,” the American bishops’ spokeswoman on pro-life issues told those assembled at the annual diocesan Red Mass, Jan. 14, in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace.
About 400 political, civic and church leaders gathered to pray for God’s guidance for the new legislative year and to hear Helen Alvare speak on “building the culture of life” and “overturning the culture of death.”
10 years ago — Jan. 18, 2013
Hawaii celebrates St. Marianne back at her Kalaupapa home
Hawaii held its final major event celebrating the canonization of St. Marianne Cope in the same place she practiced her inexhaustible charity, mostly unseen, for three decades.
On Jan. 12, in Kalaupapa, at Bishop Home, the former destination of scores of women and girls with Hansen’s disease and Mother Marianne’s home from 1888 to 1918, hundreds of people gathered to celebrate Molokai’s second saint with a Mass, music, a luau, a play and an abundance of camaraderie.
