Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: May 14, 2021

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Herald quizionados, here’s your joke of the issue: Why would an angel need an ambulance? For harp failure. [forminator_quiz id=”26089″] PRINTABLE QUIZ 1) Liturgical Year The seventh Sunday of Easter this year celebrates what? a) the Ascension b) the Annunciation c) the Immaculate Conception d) the Assumption of Mary 2) Catholic Hawaii With the recent […]

With May rosaries, Pope Francis prays to Mary for end of pandemic

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Under the gaze of a seventh-century icon of Mary, Pope Francis launched a monthlong, global recitation of the rosary, pleading for Mary’s intercession for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. And he prayed May 1 that Mary would move people’s consciences “so that the enormous amounts […]

Official notices: May 14, 2021

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Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate.] May 15, 10:00 am and 1:30 pm, Mass with Confirmation & First Holy Communion, Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, Kalihi; 5:00 pm, Mass with Confirmation & First Holy Communion, St. Anthony of Padua Parish, Kailua; 5:00 pm, Mass with Confirmation & First Holy Communion, St. Michael […]

Hawaii’s Knights of Columbus meet virtually for their annual convention

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On April 24, the 42nd annual Knights of Columbus Hawaii State Council Convention opened virtually with a prayer by State Chaplain Sacred Hearts Father Lane Akiona. For the second year in a row the convention could not be held in person, due to the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Newly elected Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly, […]

With deacon’s retirement, an era ends for the Diocese of Honolulu

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Richard Port first learned of the permanent diaconate in the early 1960s in Ghana, West Africa, where he and his wife Ann (Antonette) were teaching secondary school in President John F. Kennedy’s newly established Peace Corps. There, on Sundays, the corps’ first married couple would hitchhike 25 miles to […]

State of the pews

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Has church attendance gone back to normal now that the Mass dispensation is lifted in the Diocese of Honolulu? By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva lifted his dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to the COVID-19 pandemic on Easter Sunday. The pass on going to Mass had been in […]

Sister M. Emilie Basitas, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: Without prayer, I would not be here

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald As a temporary professed sister, I used to dread applying for our yearly renewal of vows. One in my group was thinking of joining the cloistered nuns, and so was I. However, one year my superior said to me, “Em, Em, you […]