Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Brother Salvador (Buddy) J. Yanzon, Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament: Nothing for me

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald “Brother, why is your garden so beautiful?” parishioners sometimes ask me while seeing me at work in the gardens surrounding the church. Turning down the volume to the music playing on the radio I have carried there, or to where I am […]

Diocesan official wants Catholics to take pro-life prayers to sidewalk

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald “It was intimidating,” Paulette Vernay said. “It was scary.” The administrative assistant of the diocesan Respect Life Office described the trepidation of her first time participating in pro-life prayer vigil on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood’s Honolulu clinic a year ago. But as she settled into her […]

Photo: Augustine Foundation reception

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Young students from Saint Louis School and Sacred Hearts Academy greet guests at the Augustine Educational Foundation donor reception, Sept. 8 at the Halekulani Hotel in Waikiki. The reception brings together benefactors of the foundation with local Catholic school faculty and students, and diocesan staff. Bishop Larry Silva, in the reception’s printed program, wrote that […]

Heralding back: Sept. 23, 2016

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Sept. 30, 1966 St. Joseph’s graduate Mrs. Rosebella Kealoha (third from left) eagerly points out the banner of her alma mater held by Sister M. Ancilla, as Craig Carvalho of this year’s class, Sister M. Thomasine of ’51 and Alfred R. Moniz of ’29 look on with […]

Mary Adamski: Let there be peace on earth

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VIEW FROM THE PEW It was a week with a couple of encounters with road rage of the tail-gating, one-finger salute, scared that it might escalate kind. It was a month of vacation in a mainland city where 24 homicides in one month matched the record set there 25 years ago. It was a time […]

Diversity in Diocesan Pastoral Council discussions produce ‘explosions of light’

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  CHAIRMAN’S REPORT By Deacon Tom Adams Special to the Herald Sometimes circumstances come together to ignite a special moment. Not too long ago, as we drove along the Kona Coast, we saw little explosions of light on the backdrop of the Kohala Mountains. It was early morning. The clouds shrouded the mountain peaks. The […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Does God ‘need’ the suffering of children?

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  QUESTION CORNER Q: I have several very devout and pious friends who believe that God creates children with birth defects to become his “victim souls” because God needs suffering in order to make up for what was lacking in the suffering of Christ in the work of redemption. They quote to me the account […]