Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Edna Magpantay-Monroe: Finding balance with intentional reflection

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VIRIDITAS 2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald How would I self-describe myself? Hmm … I am a mom of a special needs kid, a wife, a dog-owner, a nurse by profession, a nurse practitioner by training, and a nurse working in academia at Chaminade University of Honolulu. With […]

Official notices: Aug. 19, 2022

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  Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate.] August 20, 10:00 am, Groundbreaking for new church at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Ewa Beach. August 21, 11:00 am, Mass with blessing of new confessional and shrine, Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Pearl City. August 23, 9:30 am, Bishop’s Administrative Advisory Council […]

Hong Kong: Five-day trial set for Cardinal Zen, four defendants

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By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — At a pre-trial hearing in Hong Kong, a judge set a five-day trial for Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun and four other defendants who face charges of failing to properly register a now-defunct fund to help anti-government protesters. According to an Aug. 9 report by the […]

Francis in Canada: Trip shows tenacity of Canada’s Indigenous and pope

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service IQALUIT, Nunavut — At the end of his six-day visit to Canada, Pope Francis, sitting in a wheelchair, said goodbye to Chief Wilton Littlechild, also sitting in a wheelchair. Littlechild, a 78-year-old lawyer, survivor of abuse in a residential school and former grand chief of the Confederacy of Treaty […]

Sisters project: Local scout earns top American Heritage Girl award for video telling the story of Hawaii’s women religious

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By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald When Sofia Garcia was thinking of ideas for her final project for American Heritage Girls, she thought about the influences on her life growing up. The homeschooled high school senior comes from a Catholic family who regularly visited with religious sisters through homeschool groups and church. She would go […]

Office of Religious Education now called ‘Faith Formation’

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald For a long time, centuries really, it was called the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine — CCD for short. It was the name primarily given to the teaching of religion to elementary and high school students who did not go to Catholic schools. It meant catechism classes for public school […]