Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Aloha! Namaste! Visitors embody the Hawaii-India-Damien link

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Seven Indian Sacred Hearts priests visit St. Damien’s grave in Kalawao, Molokai, last month with their congregation’s U.S. provincial Father Jonathan Hurrell, far right. (Photo courtesy off the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts) Traveling over 7,400 miles, nearly the same distance that St. Damien de Veuster crossed on his journey from Belgium to Hawaii, seven […]

Waialua’s Benedictine priests incardinated into the diocese

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Father Michael Sawyer and Father David Barfknecht of the Benedictine Monastery in Waialua have been incardinated into the Diocese of Honolulu, Bishop Larry Silva announced in the official notices in this issue of the Hawaii Catholic Herald (See page 2). This change in association follows the monastery’s split last year from the Italy-based Olivetan Benedictine […]

New St. Michael Church, Kona, slowly emerging from solid footings

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The old parish coral grotto stands center amidst the excavations for the foundation of the new St. Michael Church.   It’s been seven years since the 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit off the shores of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii rousing residents and tourists from their beds and causing the church of St. Michael the Archangel to shudder. The […]

Hawaii’s new religious and clergy hail from the Philippines, India, Taiwan, New Jersey

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Here are some of the more recent arrivals of religious and clergy to Hawaii’s shores. Marianist Brother Mark Motz Campus minister, Chaminade Brother Motz is from West Chester, Ohio. He has an older brother and a younger sister. He graduated from the University of Dayton in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies. In […]

Photos: Over the edge

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Father Arnold Ortiz of the Oblates of St. Joseph and Sister Ruth Zonunthari of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians rappelled down the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel Nov. 2 as part of the “Over the Edge” fundraiser for Special Olympics Hawaii. Parishioners from St. Elizabeth Church in Aiea, where Father Ortiz is administrator and […]

Photo: Mop ministry

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Members of the young adult ministry at St. Elizabeth Church in Aiea visited Kalaupapa, Molokai, Nov. 1-3 for a service project that doubled as an educational journey. Corry Lopez, Mercedes Matthews, Aaron Morris, Paula Pastor, Celia Downes and ministry adviser Manette Kokubun cleaned St. Francis Church in Kalaupapa and St. Philomena Church in Kalawao and […]

Letters to the Herald

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Knowing right from wrong I am a catechist who prepares adults for the Sacrament of Confirmation. I tell my students that, as confirmed Catholics, we are all called to defend what is holy; to object to what is wrong. We cannot sit back and watch events unfold; we must take action whenever we are able […]

Viriditas: Sister Lourdes Fernandez, Maryknoll Sisters

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The energy of the grace of God Mission is adventure. When the U.S. bishops, through the LCWR (Leadership Council of Women Religious) invited religious of different congregations to volunteer to go to Albania in the 1990s, I said, “Yes.” I had the openness and the enthusiasm to go. I had never been to Europe or […]

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