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50 years ago — Feb. 14, 1964
The Most Reverend James J. Sweeney, Bishop of Honolulu, spoke on the Vatican Council at the Meet-the-Bishop Banquet sponsored by the Oahu Council of Holy Name Societies at the Ala Moana Banquet Hall.
25 years ago — Feb. 17, 1989
Diocesan Youth Day to celebrate young adults’ ‘true colors’
Approximately 1,200 youth and adult youth ministry leaders from island parishes and Catholic high schools are expected to attend the Diocesan Youth Day ‘89 Feb. 25 at St. Louis High School. The theme for this fifth annual event is “Youth: True Colors of God’s Rainbow.”
According to Diocesan Youth Ministry Services coordinator John Rezentes, the theme’s purpose is to focus on the unique and individual gifts that youth, our local young Church of today, possess and share with their parish and school faith communities. …
Nationally-known Fr. Don Kimball will be the keynote speaker at the Youth Day conference. Fr. Kimball is a priest and coordinator of youth ministry of the Santa Rosa Diocese.
10 years ago — Feb. 13, 2004
Co-cathedral’s bell tower stands prouder after facelift
The Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa’s 42-year-old bell tower, rising like a beacon over the H-1 freeway in Honolulu’s Kalihi-Palama district, stands a little prouder these days. It is wearing a new $182,000 facelift, which mended four decades of wear and tear.
During the six-month project, workers replaced decorative tile and repaired concrete walls. They took out the rusted chicken wire fencing that had prevented birds from entering the bell tower and put in white wooden latticework. They replaced the bells’ steel frame and the metal pads on which the bells rested. …
The bell tower was constructed with the church in 1962.
