Aloha, On Aug. 6, many were preparing for Hurricanes Iselle and Julio to hit Hawaii, including a good number of the state’s full-time National Guardsmen. That same day, it was announced the state had received additional funding, hundreds of thousands of dollars, to help house homeless veterans. One out of every three homeless males in […]
Memorial Mass for Maryknoll Sister Marie Patrice Kehoe
A memorial Mass will be celebrated for Maryknoll Sister Marie Patrice Kehoe at 5 p.m., Aug. 22, at Sacred Hearts Church in Honolulu. Sister Marie Patrice, a native of New York City, died Aug. 9 at Maryknoll Center in Ossining, N.Y. She was 91 and a Maryknoll Sister for 73 years. She came to Hawaii […]
Vatican honors Honolulu cathedral with status of ‘minor basilica’
The Vatican has given Honolulu’s Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace the honorary title of “minor basilica” in recognition of its historic and spiritual significance. The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome granted Bishop Larry Silva’s petition for the special designation with a 200-word decree in Latin dated May […]
A church history: Cathedral becomes a basilica
Compiled from the writing of Father Louis H. Yim and Sacred Hearts Father Robert Schoofs July 7, 1827: Arrival of first Catholic missionaries to Hawaii. July 14, 1827: First recorded Mass on Hawaiian soil celebrated in a grass hut on a rented lot in Honolulu. January 1828: Hawaii’s first Catholic church built on land granted […]
Back to School 2014| Grading the ‘System,’ an interview with the superintendent
On a scale from A to F, Michael Rockers measures the success of Hawaii Catholic schools’ 3-year-old strategic plan As local Catholic school students once again hit the books, school administrators and teachers continue their work creating thriving academic environments that foster faith, integrity and scholarship in Island youth. Much like the pupils are guided […]
Leis, songs, kisses welcome back St. Marianne to Isles
An employee at the United Airlines cargo facility outside the Honolulu International Airport kisses the casket containing the remains of St. Marianne Cope, which arrived in Honolulu from Syracuse, N.Y., July 27. St. Marianne’s remains would be enshrined in the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace on July 31. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela […]
Chaplain of Korean Catholic community eager to see Pope Francis in home diocese
Father Jong Ki Kim is excited that Pope Francis’ first major trip to Asia will be to his home diocese of Daejeon, South Korea, and that he and 23 others from Hawaii’s Korean Catholic Community will be there. Father Kim is the head chaplain for the Korean Catholic Community based at St. Pius X Parish […]
Back to School 2014 | Hawaii Catholic school enrollment continues to drop hundreds a year
Hawaii Catholic schools continue to lose several hundred students a year, a trend that has been consistent for the past decade. It is the equivalent of one grade school closing every 12 months. According to figures provided by the Hawaii Catholic Schools office, the 2013 school year opened with 9,110 preschool, elementary and high school […]
Back to School 2014 | Hawaii Catholic Schools chart 2014
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Remembering a loving uncle, model priest
The advantage of having a priest for an uncle, Jamie Psak said, was that everything got blessed. Cars, boats, homes, kids, pets. The holy water was always available, she said, as long as you kept adding water to the original supply. You can’t dilute water. Her Uncle Al told her that. Psak’s Uncle Al was […]
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