Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Archives for July 2025

Marianist Brother William T. “Bill” Bolts / 1935-2025: Educator spent year as interim principal at Saint Louis School

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Special to the Herald Hawaii was just one stop on Marianist Brother William T. “Bill” Bolts’ long resume of teaching and pastoral work, but he made an impact wherever his ministry brought him. Brother Bolts, who served as an educator and administrator in California, Hawaii, Pennsylvania and British Columbia over a 50-year career, died July […]

Photo: Warm welcome

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Members of the Sacred Hearts Academy Girls Scout Troop 614 and their leaders recently prepared and distributed welcome-home kits to children and mothers residing at The Shelter, a transitional housing facility program. The Scouts’ outreach motivated them to plan and coordinate an end-of-summer celebration for the families at Dave and Buster’s at Ala Moana Center […]

Photo: Fundraising success

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On July 20, the Knights of Columbus’ St. Joseph the Worker Council 15124 presented a $1,000 check to Father Nick Brown, pastor of St. Pius X Church in Manoa, as part of a Zippy’s fundraiser. Father Brown sold 160 of 400 overall fundraising tickets. From left: Deputy Grand Knight Hilarion Tamonte, warden Bob Mielke, financial […]

Patriarchs’ visit heartens survivors of Gaza church attack

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By Judith SudilovskyOSV News JERUSALEM — Parishioners of Gaza’s Holy Family Church are feeling “horror” and almost a sense of “desperation” after an Israeli tank shell struck the church, killing three elderly people sheltering there and injuring 10, said Joseph Hazboun, regional director of the Jerusalem office of Catholic Near East Welfare Association, or CNEWA. […]

Catholic agencies back legislation for online safety, trafficking victims

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By Kurt JensenOSV News WASHINGTON — Two Catholic service organizations have joined forces to back three new pieces of legislation designed to both help victims of human trafficking and enhance safety for children online. Representatives of the Alliance to End Human Trafficking and the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd spoke […]

Supporters of trailblazing priest rally for his sainthood cause

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By Catherine M. OdellOSV News SOUTH BEND, Indiana — Near the anniversary of his sudden and early death from a heat stroke on a hot, steamy Chicago street in July 1897, supporters of Venerable Augustus Tolton (1854-1897) gathered in South Bend to pray, discuss and recommit to promoting his cause for sainthood. This was the […]

Sister Merle Lebaquin and Sister Merced Gumban, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: Mission and grace

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Viriditas2: Soul Greening Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OPHawaii Catholic Herald Sisters Merced Gumban, above right, and Merle Lebaquin both entered the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of the Philippines in 1978 and have been professed for 44 years. They recently volunteered at a special medical mission in Molo, Iloilo, Philippines. Sr. […]

Jenna Marie Cooper: Precious Blood can be brought to sick

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Question corner Q: I used to volunteer to bring holy Communion to the sick in nursing homes and hospice, and I always wondered: Why can’t we bring the Precious Blood to those who are very ill or at the point of death and can no longer eat any solid food? I asked several priests about […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: We are not in control; God is

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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Ecclesiastes 1:2, 2:21-23; Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11; Luke 12:13-21 The first reading this weekend is from the Book of Ecclesiastes. The first verse states that the book is the work of Qoheleth, a son of King David, although no proper name is used. The book’s name comes from the Greek, and […]