Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Father Lane Akiona elected provincial of Sacred Hearts

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  By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Hawaii Sacred Hearts Father Lane Akiona was elected June 23 by his religious community as the superior of the United States Province of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, overseeing some 90 priests, brothers and seminarians in seven locations in four countries. It is […]

Kalaupapa’s Barbara ‘Bobbie’ Marks: ‘I wanted to learn’

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By Valerie Monson Special to the Herald Barbara “Bobbie” Marks did not allow her love for learning to be shelved when she suddenly had to leave her cherished Sacred Hearts Academy in Kaimuki in 1946 because she was diagnosed with leprosy. Throughout her many years at Kalaupapa and Hale Mohalu in Pearl City, Barbara was […]

Audit finds diocese in full compliance with sex abuse Charter

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  By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald An audit conducted in July found the Diocese of Honolulu in full compliance with the U.S. bishops’ “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” the set of procedures the bishops established in 2002 for addressing allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy. A letter […]

Italian priest recounts harrowing escape from Kabul

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Leaves Afghanistan with five nuns and 14 orphaned and disabled children and young adults By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service ROME — Although Barnabite Father Giovanni Scalese, head of the Catholic mission in Afghanistan, found himself back in his native Italy after the fall of the Afghan capital, his thoughts remained on the church […]

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, […]