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50 years ago — Feb. 9. 1973
BRINGING UP THE REAR—The colorful Boy Scout parade on Sunday marched past the Capitol along Beretania Street to Our Lady of Peace Cathedral. The last troop in the parade was No. 198 of Our Lady of the Mount Church in Kalihi.
25 years ago — Feb. 6, 1998
The life and funeral of Msgr. Charles A. Kekumano
It was not your ordinary Catholic priest’s funeral. For starters, many, maybe even most, of those attending weren’t Catholic. That morning of Jan. 31, in the Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, Bishop Estate Trustees mingled with nuns, venerable Hawaiian societies sat opposite the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher, Alaskan priests congregated with Hawaiian entertainers, politicians and judges share pews with diocesan clerical workers.
Msgr. Charles A. Kekumano would have delighted in the unusual mix and odd convergences. As well he should, the funeral being his. …
Msgr. Kekumano died Jan. 19 of a merciless cancer which afflicted him for a mercifully short time. His death ended an extraordinary 78-year life that melded the Catholic priesthood with a remarkable record of community service and a deep appreciation for his own Hawaiian culture.
The monsignor led several public lives, the first as a priest for the Diocese of Honolulu. Ordained in 1949 after seminary training on the mainland, he served first as a neighbor island parish priest for two years before Bishop James J. Sweeney sent him to the Catholic University of America in the nation’s capitol to earn a doctorate in canon law.
10 years ago — Feb. 1, 2013
New adult faith formation coordinator links fields of psychology, theology
Kristina DeNeve has accumulated a wealth of knowledge about the intersection of psychology and theology, which she has shared in university classrooms, church ministries and catechetical journals.
She brings it all to Hawaii as the diocese’s new coordinator for adult faith formation and evangelization. She will work in the diocese’s Office of Religious Education.
Editor’s Note: Kristina DeNeve left her diocesan work in 2018 to join the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, a religious order under which she has now taken temporary vows.
