NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — May 21, 1965
The “Canbera V” will be one of twenty groups performing at the Waikiki Shell May 29, in conjunction with the two-day Catholic Youth Convention. This evening they will participate with a number of other performing groups previewing the variety show. The three hour ‘preview’ will begin at 6 p.m. at Holiday Mart. Members of this group (left to right) Bernie Bernstein, Gary Walker, Glen Crowder, Gary Dunn, Vic and Vince Morine. (CYO Photo)
25 years ago — May 25, 1990
The visions of Medjugorje
When Yugoslavian Bishop Pavao Zanic stopped in Rome a few weeks ago, he ruffled some feathers at the Vatican by circulating a 16-page diatribe against alleged apparitions at Medjugorje.
The pamphlet was a compendium of criticism — of the young Yugoslavian visionaries and their credibility, of the Franciscan priests who have guided the seers since 1981, of the promoters of a worldwide pilgrimage movement to the site. At Medjugorje, the church risks nothing less than disgrace, the bishop warned. …
“We don’t want to judge the content of what the bishop said, but we do not agree with the way he acted, because there is a commission evaluating these events,” remarked a doctrinal congregation official who is following the Medjugorje case.
10 years ago — May 20, 2005
Mother Marianne of Molokai is beatified in St. Peter’s
Hawaii entered Christendom’s most majestic church in the sweet sounds of a Hawaiian song and the exuberant hearts of island pilgrims as Mother Marianne Cope of Molokai was beatified May 14 in a joyous multi-lingual liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
Portuguese Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect for the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, presided over the two-hour ceremony in the apse of the Basilica beneath Bernini’s colossal swirling black bronze and gold monument to the Chair of St. Peter.
The international liturgy was a double beatification — for Blessed Marianne and Blessed Ascension Nicol Goni, the Spanish founder of the Dominicans Missionaries of the Rosary, an order of nuns with missions in Central America, Europe, Asia and Africa, who lived from 1868 to 1940.
