FOR THE JOURNEY When my son and his male cousins headed to college, my daughter’s gift to them was a colorful book called “A Man, a Can, a Plan,” by David Joachim and the editors of Men’s Health. Clever and presumably practical, it contained easy recipes for the man on his own. Realistically, however, a […]
Nun’s recovery recognized as 70th official Lourdes miracle
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME — As the Catholic Church celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, a French bishop announced the 70th officially recognized miraculous cure of a pilgrim to the Lourdes grotto where Mary appeared 160 years ago. Bishop Jacques Benoit-Gonnin of Beauvais formally declared Feb. 11 “the prodigious, miraculous […]
Fish fry to benefit students, trafficking victims
The Knights of Columbus Council 6307 on Oahu’s Windward Side is having charity fish fry, 5-7 p.m., March 23, at St. Anthony’s Parish Hall in Kailua. The event will raise money for students in financial need at St. John Vianney and St. Anthony Schools and for Ho‘ola Na Pua, an organization helping girls trafficked in […]
Heralding back: Feb. 23, 2018
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Feb. 23, 1968 Bishop Scanlan leans over the table to speak to some of the guests at the annual “Meet the Bishop” banquet held on Monday at the Ala Moana Banquet Hall. It is sponsored yearly by the Oahu Council of the Holy Name Societies. 25 years […]
Jim Lackey, longtime CNS editor who embraced old and new media, retires
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Jim Lackey, recently retired longtime editor at Catholic News Service, would be hard-pressed to choose between old and new media. As Web editor and manager for CNS for the past decade, Lackey certainly got the importance of new media — and its broad outreach on […]
Former Chaminade president is new assistant provincial of U.S. Marianists
The former president of Chaminade University of Honolulu, Marianist Brother Bernard Ploeger, has been appointed assistant provincial of the Marianist Province of the United States. The new provincial is Marianist Father Oscar Vasquez. They, plus five additional members of the provincial council will take office on Aug. 1. The council members were chosen following a […]
Sister Joan E. Souza, OSF | 1938-2018
Franciscan served in Hawaii, New York Sister Joan E. Souza, a Kauai-born Sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities who ministered at Catholic schools and religious education departments in Hawaii and in New York, died Feb. 6 at St. Francis Hospice in Nuuanu. She was 79. This year marks her 60th anniversary in religious […]
Sister Dorothy Santos, SSCC | 1912-2018
Lifelong teacher was also a prolific mosaic artist By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Sacred Hearts Sister Dorothy Santos, a lifelong teacher and mosaic artist whose craftwork is displayed in places around the world, died Feb. 1 at Malia O Ka Malu Convent in Kaimuki. She was 96 and a religious sister for 76 years. Her […]
School shooting an act of ‘horrifying evil,’ says Miami archbishop
By Catholic News Service MIAMI — Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski urged community members to come together “to support one another in this time of grief” after a shooting rampage Feb. 14 at a Broward County high school left at least 17 people dead and at least 14 injured. “With God’s help, we can remain […]
Case involving transfer of Archbishop Sheen’s body is returned to N.Y. court
NEW YORK — The case involving the transfer of the remains of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen from New York to Peoria, Illinois, has been sent back to the original court by the New York Court of Appeals for an evidentiary hearing. Archbishop Sheen, a Peoria diocesan priest, gained fame in the 1950s with a prime-time […]
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