NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — June 1, 1973
SPEECH WINNERS—Kailua’s St. Anthony students won the most points in the annual Kamehameha Intermediate Speech Festival. Participants from St. Anthony School in the festival include: (front roew, left to right) Daniel Kaster, Margie Chow, Cecelia Umbhau, Cindy Mauliola, Peter Hayes, (second row) Woo Wham Park, Thais Ocando, Kathryn Holtzmann, Denise Nolan Mrs. Jane Linsenmeyer, speech instructor, (third row) David Ordenstein, Scott Brady, Robert Cravalho, Chris Peters.
25 years ago — June 12, 1998
Closing the mission door
In Hawaii in the 1920s, with the influx of American citizens and the importation of Asian plantation labor, the local church needed a religious order that could walk comfortably in both worlds. The newly-formed Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, or Maryknoll, seemed the ideal choice — a U.S. order founded to work in China, Japan, Korea, and other fields afar.
On Feb. 4, 1927, Maryknoll Father William S. Kress landed in Hawaii with Maryknoll Brother Philip Morini to take up the challenge. The rest, as they say, is history.
This summer, 23 parishes and 71 years later, with the retirement of the pastor, Maryknoll Father Francis Diffley, the missioners are leaving this first and longest parish assignment, a place that has become synonymous with the Maryknoll community in Hawaii — Sacred Heart, Punahou.
10 years ago — June 7, 2013
After 10-year absence, Hawaii priest returns to ministry
Father Stephen Macedo, a priest of the Diocese of Honolulu who left priestly ministry 10 years ago, has been accepted back into the ranks of active clergy by Bishop Larry Silva.
