Perseverance One asks, “Sister, my electricity is going to be cut. Can you help me?” While another pleads, “Sister, I need food.” And yet another inquires, “Sister, can you open the door to the gym?” This is my work here at St. Joseph’s Church (Makawao, Maui). Aside from being the director of religious education, my […]
Obituary: Sister of St. Francis Laurenza Fernandez | 1923-2014
Maui-born teacher and nurse served in Hawaii, New York, California, Rome Sister M. Laurenza Fernandez’ 67 years as a Sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities took her from the small Maui plantation town of Puukolii, near Lahaina, to assignments across Hawaii and to New York, California and Rome. She died April 28 at […]
Vatican spokesman: Pope’s phone call didn’t change church teaching
VATICAN CITY — Reports that Pope Francis told an Argentine woman civilly married to a divorced man that she can receive Communion “cannot be confirmed as reliable,” said Jesuit Father Federico, the Vatican spokesman. Julio Sabetta, 50, wrote on his Facebook page that Pope Francis phoned his wife, Jacquelina Lisbona, April 20 at their home […]
Workshop guides school reps through nuts and bolts of grant writing
Development officers and other representatives from nine Oahu Catholic schools and one representative from Kauai attended the first grants and funding workshop sponsored by the Hawaii Catholic Schools Diocesan Board on April 25 at St. Stephen Diocesan Center. Twenty-five people participated in the four-and-a-half-hour presentation which featured as guest speaker Maryknoll School’s director of institutional […]
Ordination in cathedral to mark 150th anniversary of St. Damien’s ordination
Bishop Larry Silva will ordain a member of St. Damien’s religious order to the priesthood on the 150th anniversary of the saint’s own ordination, in the same spot the Belgian missionary was ordained. The bishop will ordain Sacred Hearts brother Ajit Baliar Singh during a 6 p.m. Mass May 21 in the Cathedral of Our […]
Saintly encounters of the papal kind: Meeting Pope John Paul II
The Hawaii Catholic Herald asked its readers for stories about meeting Pope John Paul II, or perhaps even Pope John XXIII, both of whom will be canonized by Pope Francis at the Vatican on April 27. Here are the accounts we received. A chaplain and a relic By John Mihlbauer Special to the Herald […]
Hawaii’s 2014 Jubilarians
“God, our Father, guide of humanity and ruler of creation, look upon these your servants, who wish to confirm their offering of themselves to you. As the years pass by, help them to enter more deeply into the mystery of the church and to dedicate themselves more generously to the good of humanity.” Prayer of […]
Mary Adamski: Saint potential in blue denim
Visions of saints will be before us this weekend as the Catholic Church bestows that title on two former popes. We’ll envision them in white robes because that’s how we saw them on the television screen and other media in recent history, Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005, and Pope John XXIII, who […]
Photos: Celebrating the Triduum
Bishop Larry Silva celebrated Holy Week liturgies April 17-19, commemorating the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. From top: The bishop washes a parishioner’s feet on Holy Thursday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace; adoration of the cross at the cathedral’s Good Friday liturgy; Bishop Silva baptizes catechumen Donovan Wong at the Co-Cathedral […]
Kathleen T. Choi: At last!
Thank heavens Lent is over, and not just because I can eat dessert again. I recognize the value of some deep reflection on my sins and what leads me to sin. However, too much makes me nervous. I suspect that when Satan can’t stop us from praying, he tempts us to spend all our prayer […]
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