Katie Lentz had plucked the perfect dress for her Sunday surprise, and the yellow J. Crew frock was dangling in the back of her 1989 Mercedes, bouncing along the highway as the sun streamed in and oldies played on the radio. The 19-year-old blonde from Quincy, Ill., had just completed her summer internship in Jefferson […]
Parish-by-the-sea celebrating 160 years with Royal Hawaiian gala
Waikiki’s St. Augustine by-the-Sea Church is celebrating its 160th anniversary with a gala benefit dinner at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 28 at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. The theme for the dinner is “Celebrating 160 years of service in Waikiki.” The parish has decided to donate all proceeds from the benefit dinner to the Damien and […]
Manaolana | Lisa’s catechism corner: How do you become prudent?
YOUCAT*: A person becomes prudent by learning to distinguish what is essential from what is non-essential, to set the right goals and to choose the best means of attaining them. [1806, 1835] Over the last six weeks, young adults (and adults) from all over Oahu attended our Theology on Tap series “Happy Catholics.” All three […]
Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: Aug. 1, 2014
Hey quiztastics, we’re going back to school! The joy of learning never ends, as I hope you glean a nifty new “faith fact” or two with each quiz I present. Here’s my latest set of Catholic trivia questions for you! 1) Saints Which of the following saints, whose feast days are celebrated in early August, […]
Obituary: Sister Mary Joel Kramer | 1921-2014
BVM religious taught elementary school on Kauai Sister Mary Joel Kramer, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary who taught in Catholic elementary schools on Kauai from 1954 to 1961, died July 13 at Marian Hall in Dubuque, Iowa. She was 92. She entered the convent 75 years ago. Sister Mary Joel taught […]
It takes a (kupuna) village: St. Francis Healthcare responds to changing needs
An artist’s rendering of the future independent living complex for seniors at the Liliha Kupuna Village, a new venture of the St. Francis Healthcare System. (image courtesy of Gregg Maedo + Associates, Inc.) The Islands’ only Catholic healthcare system has undergone many changes in the last several years, and this summer it continues to […]
St. Marianne: Arrival from Syracuse, a second and final time
Honolulu again will give an aloha welcome to Hawaii’s beloved saint who is returning for permanent rest St. Marianne Cope’s remains will return to Hawaii to be enshrined in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace nearly a decade after they were exhumed in Kalaupapa to rest at her motherhouse in Syracuse. All that is […]
Iraqi patriarch: Situation perhaps ‘darkest and most difficult period’
A Christian woman who fled from the violence in Mosul, Iraq, holds her daughter as her baby sleeps June 27 at a shelter in Irbil, Iraq. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad said the city of Mosul “is almost empty of Christians.” (CNS photo/Ahmed Jadallah, Reuters) AMMAN, Jordan The patriarch of the Chaldean […]
Pope Francis to sex abuse survivors: ‘And I ask for the grace to weep’
Pope Francis kisses a child during his June 25 general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters) VATICAN CITY Here is the Vatican’s English translation of the homily Pope Francis gave in Spanish July 7 during a Mass with victims of clerical sexual abuse: The scene where Peter sees […]
Viriditas: Sister Miriam Dionise Cabacungan, Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities
Providence will provide Our first patient in our newly opened hospice program in Nuuanu was an elderly Hawaiian-Japanese lady. She was dying of cancer and very weak. It was hard to even sit her up in a chair. One day, as I was trying to figure out how to help her, I bent over, put […]
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