Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Delivering dignity, compassion, justice

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Catholic Charities Hawaii, the island church’s primary social service agency, turns 75 this month By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald When Daryl Lynn Davalos was a teen in the late 1960s, her family went to Catholic Social Services on Oahu for family counseling. She remembers waiting in the lobby after an appointment and seeing a […]

Catholic Charities Hawaii: 75 years of charity timeline

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75 years of charity Source: Catholic Charities Hawaii 1859 The Catholic Weomen’s Aid Society, later to be known as the Catholic Women’s Guild, helps immigrant plantation workers adjust to life in Hawaii by providing food, clothing and medical aid. 1921 Laymen form the Columbus Welfare Association (CWA) promote activities for the general welfare of the […]

He wanted to serve others, so was priesthood calling?

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Arrion Rosales-Llantos had already registered for his third year at the University of Hawaii-Hilo, for classes in administration of justice and history, when he mentioned to his pastor in Kona that he was considering the priesthood as a career. The pastor, Father Konelio Faletoi, urged him to enter the […]

SISTER M. CANDIDA OROC, OSF | 1933-2022

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Educator and chaplain, Sister of St. Francis served with a joyful spirit Sister Mary Candida Oroc, a Kauai-born Sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities who, as a Catholic school educator and hospital chaplain, displayed a vivacious outreach to all, especially in her ministry with palliative care patients, died May 29 at the Plaza […]

Photo: Body of Christ at Christ the King

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La Salette Father Augustine Uthuppu, pastor of Christ the King Parish in Kahului, Maui, carries the monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament under a canopy held by members of the Knights of Columbus as he leads parishioners in a procession celebrating the feast of Corpus Christi (the Body of Christ) June 19. The Corpus Christi procession […]

Photos: Taking Christ to the street

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Top, acolytes lead the Corpus Christi procession up Nuuanu Avenue about a block from their destination, the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, June 19, where Bishop Larry Silva presided over Benediction. The mile-and-a-half long procession started at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa at noon. The celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi marked […]