QUESTION CORNER Q: I was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church. When I was younger, I served as an altar boy for several years. About 12 years ago, I got married in a Methodist church. I never had the marriage “convalidated” in the Catholic Church since my wife was against involving another member of […]
Funeral Mass for Father Freitas scheduled
Funeral Mass of Father Patrick Freitas will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, 712 N. School Street in Honolulu. Bishop Larry Silva will be the presider. Visitation before Mass begins at 10 a.m. Refreshments will follow the Mass at the church hall. Father Freitas died Oct. 13 […]
Heralding back: Nov. 11, 2022
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Nov. 17, 1972 NEW PRESIDENT — Sister Irene Woodward is the new President of Holy Names College, Oakland, Calif., and she pauses on the hillside campus of the 100-year-old coeducational liberal arts institution to talk to three Hawaiian island students — Bernadette Serrao of Kaneohe, Oahu (daughter […]
Official notices: Nov. 11, 2022
Bishop’s Schedule November 10-12, National Catholic Youth Conference, Long Beach, California. November 14-17, Fall General Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Baltimore, Maryland. November 22, 2:00 pm, Priests Day at St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park, California. November 24, 9:00 am, Mass for Thanksgiving Day, Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, downtown […]
FATHER LOUIS ‘HARRY’ YIM | 1929-2022
Priest historian the first from St. Stephen Seminary to be ordained By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Father Louis “Harry” Yim, whose singular interest in the history of the Catholic Church in Hawaii left the diocese with many carefully investigated stories of its rich past, died Oct. 13 at Hale O Meleana, the St. Francis […]
FATHER PATRICK H. FREITAS | 1939-2022
Maui-born priest was a dedicated pastor, staunch religious educator By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Maui-born Father Patrick H. Freitas, who felt exceedingly privileged to be in the first generation of priests to implement the Second Vatican Council, a man of spiritual intensity and a self-described “happy learner,” died Oct. 18 in a Waipahu care […]
Empty churches: Marianist Lecture focuses on where all the young Catholics have gone
By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald About 90 people filled the Mystical Rose Oratory at Chaminade University of Honolulu on Oct. 9 to hear Marianist Father James L. Heft speak on the topic of “Empty Churches: Where have all the young people gone?” The answer? There are many factors, and Catholics shouldn’t lose hope for […]
Catholic Charities opens third phase of affordable housing project
Catholic Charities Housing Development Corporation (CCHDC) Oct. 5 dedicated the third phase of its Meheula Vista senior affordable rental housing development in Mililani Mauka and blessed and broke ground for phase four. Bishop Larry Silva did the blessing. Meheula Vista provides low-income seniors affordable housing with amenities that allow residents to “age in place.” The […]
New reliquary at Holy Trinity Church puts saints on display
By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald You’ll find Saints Aloysius Gonzaga, Theresa, John Vianney and Catherine in the vestibule of a southeast Oahu parish. Or at least a tiny part of them. First-class relics, or parts of the body, of those and 18 other saints are on display at Holy Trinity Church in Kuliouou in […]
Mary or Marianne? Hilo or Pahoa? The tale of the mysterious statue
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald That is not an apparition glowing above the Sacred Heart Church cemetery in Pahoa on the Big Island. But the sudden Oct. 5 appearance of the larger-than-life white image of Our Blessed Mother does have a bit of mystery about it. According to Deacon Jim Dougherty of St. Theresa […]
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