Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

New preschool director back where she started her career

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Note and correction: The story below missed the deadline for inclusion in the profiles of new Catholic school administrators which ran in the last issue of the Hawaii Catholic Herald. The Herald would also like to correct one of those profiles. The title for Sister Gina Senapilo, OP, at St. Catherine School, Kapaa, is “interim […]

Pakistan province demolishes Catholic church, despite protests

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By Catholic News Service KARACHI, Pakistan — A Catholic church serving more than 300 Christian families in Pakistan’s commercial capital of Karachi was demolished Aug. 24 despite resistance from a civil society group and warnings from U.N. human rights experts. The Save Karachi Movement, a group of lawyers, human rights defenders, journalists and minority activists, […]

Official notices: Sept. 3, 2021

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Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate.] September 7, 9:30 am, Bishop’s Administrative Advisory Council (video conference). September 12, 9:30 am, Mass and Installation of Reverend Rizal Acosta, M.S. as Pastor of St. Raphael Parish, Koloa. September 13-17, Annual Priests’ Retreat, St. Stephen Diocesan Center, Kaneohe. September 14, 9:00 am, Diocesan Finance […]

Post-quake Haiti: Funerals and a daily quest for food

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By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service Two weeks after Haiti’s Aug. 14 earthquake, the country’s southwest peninsula is still marked by funerals, aftershocks and a daily search for clean water, food and shelter. “One of the things that really struck me two weeks out is the number of funerals — everywhere you go there are […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Am I wrong to receive Communion? Can I ask my priest why he’s growing out his hair and beard?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: For the past year, I have been striving for a stronger Catholic faith. (Before, I guess I would say that I was a lukewarm Catholic.) I was married in a Methodist church and divorced 30 years ago through no fault of my own. I have always received holy Communion. Is this wrong? […]

Effie Caldarola: Some good news

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FOR THE JOURNEY Ready for some good news? Who isn’t? Just a quick look at headlines during the past few days is sobering. With our first cup of coffee one morning, we learned about the murderous earthquake in Haiti. There’s the grim U.N. Climate Report. The Taliban has overtaken Kabul, Afghanistan, and the terror felt […]

Mass marks first anniversary of Knights founder’s feast day

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  By Robert Camilleri Special to the Herald On Aug. 13, Hawaii Knights of Columbus, their wives and families, gathered at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu to attend the first anniversary feast day of the Mass of Blessed Michael McGivney, the recently beatified founder of the Knights of Columbus, celebrated by Bishop Larry […]