Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Kathleen T. Choi: I don’t get it

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Jimmy Fallon has a new daughter. For the second time, the host of the “Tonight Show” and his wife turned to artificial conception and a surrogate mother for a baby. I grieve for any couple having fertility problems, but this method of realizing their dream troubles me. Any woman who’s ever been pregnant will tell […]

Photo: Grant presentation

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Central Pacific Bank Foundation awarded the first third of a $15,000 grant to St. Francis Healthcare System for the transformation of its Liliha campus into the St. Francis Kupuna Village, a health, wellness and social services center for Hawaii’s elderly population. The grant will be paid over three years. The money will go toward a […]

Photo: Three Franciscan professions

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Three members of Hawaii’s Korean Catholic Community made their profession in the St. Clare Emerging Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order of Oahu at an evening Mass in late November at St. Pius X Church, Manoa. Franciscan Father Francis Kim, visiting from New York, celebrated the liturgy with Father Jong Ki Kim and Father Woongsuk […]

Heralding back: Jan. 16, 2015

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Jan. 22, 1965 Right, Mr. John Savage, president of St. Francis Convent School Parent Teacher Guild presents a check for two thousand dollars to the principal, Sister M. Bonaventure, O.S.F. The money was raised by the parents and it is earmarked for the building fund. 25 years […]

Recap 2014 : A month-by-month review of the Catholic news in Hawaii in 2014 as reported in the Hawaii Catholic Herald

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Sisters Davilyn Ah Chick, William Marie Eleniki and Francis Regis Hadano, members of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, carry the remains of St. Marianne Cope into the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. St. Marianne’s remains, encased in a zinc box and wrapped with tapa cloth, were permanently enshrined at […]

In the second year of his pontificate, Francis continues to take ‘the world by storm’

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Pope Francis greets the crowd at the start of his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 15. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)   WASHINGTON — During the second year of his pontificate, Pope Francis was still feeling the love, and not just from Catholics or those from his homeland of Argentina. A Pew […]