Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Manaolana | Sidebar: Dec. 5, 2014

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Quote “We’re not going to end hunger in this world if we don’t figure out a way to be more productive in the agricultural sector globally … We can’t do that without women, especially since they’re 43 percent of the agricultural labor force.” | Victoria Stanley, a senior rural development and land specialist at the […]

Mary Adamski: ‘Assignment: Advent’

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Advent always feels a little like the end of the semester, when the deadline for the final term paper is looming and the final exam is ahead and you’ve schluffed off on the required reading and the homework, and you start hyperventilating about what it’s going to mean to your GPA. No matter how many […]

Manaolana | It’s ‘A Nun’s Life’: Website becomes a growing vocations ministry

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WASHINGTON — What started out as a blog at a time when few people knew about blogs and hardly anyone was familiar with Twitter is a living and growing ministry run by two women religious who are Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Sisters Julie Vieira and Maxine Kollasch oversee their website “A […]

Manaolana | Makana’s helpful hints: Remember the pauses

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Wow! Thanksgiving is gone and there are only three weeks until Christmas begins. Last week’s Black Friday sales actually started the day before Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations and sales popped up even before that! It really feels like corporate America (save a handful of companies) is trying to hide Thanksgiving! Now, I hope you caught […]

Manaolana | Christina Capecchi: Light the candles, pour the wine

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Grace Osterbauer was a 24-year-old bride-to-be when she took her first cake-decorating class, and the impulse compelling the Texas beauty to make that $35 investment remains today, now a 40-year-old mother of eight. “I wanted to make the Catholic events of our lives super special,” she said. Grace and her husband, Paul, are both frugal, […]

Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: Dec. 5, 2014

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Can you believe, Heraldians, that we will be a few days away from Christmas when I next see you? We’ve had such an adventurous and glorious year. There is still much to learn, however. I come bearing the gift of more Catholic trivia fun! 1) Saints The feast days of St. Ambrose, St. Valerian and […]