The diocesan Office of Clergy is sponsoring this month a two-and-a-half-hour orientation session about the Catholic Micronesian culture for local clergy to help them better understand Hawaii’s newest immigrant group. Two experts in Micronesian anthropology will present “Who is My Neighbor: Chuukese Catholic Immigrants in Hawaii,” 9:30 a.m.-noon, Aug. 8, at St. Stephen Diocesan Center […]
Back to School | St. John Vianney School: Kailua principal is back full circle
St. John Vianney School in Kailua this year welcomes Caryn DeMello as its new principal, replacing Michael Busekrus. DeMello, the former vice principal of St. Anthony School in Kailua, has been a teacher and school administrator for 19 years. Her new job, which she started July 1, brings her back full circle to St. John […]
Back to School | Maryknoll School: New leadership structure divides duties among vice principals
Maryknoll School president Perry Martin has announced a new structure of school administration leaders that gives the grade school two vice-principals and the high school three vice-principals. Both levels also have principals. Here are the new VPs and the descriptions of their jobs. Maryknoll Grade School Chris Loomis, Vice Principal of Academics and Faculty: This […]
Cathedral launching campaign to raise $15 million for renovation
Youth take a look at the choir loft of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace on June 29 during a “Youth Day” tour of the historic church. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) The Cathedral Renewal Campaign, an initiative to raise funds for the renovation of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace […]
Manaolana | Bishop Silva is among two dozen from Hawaii headed for World Youth Day in Brazil
Joshua Kapika of St. Michael Church in Waialua holds up the special shirt that Hawaii pilgrims will be wearing to World Youth Day events in Brazil, July 23-28. By the time you read this, about two dozen pilgrims from Hawaii will be on their way to one of the biggest Catholic events of the […]
Obituary: Sacred Hearts Sister Lucia Iwata served her community creatively for 6 decades
Hawaii-born Sacred Hearts Sister Lucia Iwata, who served her calling and her community in a variety of ways, from cook and housekeeper, to religion teacher and eucharistic minister, to choir member and rosary maker, died unexpectedly at Straub Medical Center on June 30. She was 84 and in religious life for 63 years. Sister Regina […]
Mary Adamski: Thou shall not kill
It seems that there’s been such clamor of words in my ears for the past few weeks that it’s hard to sit down and sort them into quiet thoughts on a keyboard. If you haven’t been battered with the details of two murder trials, in Florida and in Hawaii, you’ve succeeded in being a better […]
Conversations: A Little Sister of Hawaii
Hawaii-born Little Sister of the Poor Marie Antoinette du St. Esprit Takahara. (HCH photo | Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP) “This will be my last trip home,” the kindly voice said. “It was a long trip coming over.” Something in my heart sank. I had just met her, and I didn’t want to let […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Antonetta Wilgenbusch worked 30 years on Oahu
Maryknoll Sister Antonetta Wilgenbusch, teacher to the deaf, beloved domestic and pastoral worker in Hawaii for 30 years and a teacher in Indiana, died on June 29, at Maryknoll, N.Y. She was 101 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for 78 years. Hawaii was Sister Antonetta’s first mission assignment. She arrived in 1940, […]
Kathleen T. Choi: Not likely
I just read a biography of Tom Cruise (it’s summer). Naturally there was a lot about Scientology, and the biographer gleefully mocked its teachings. As I read, I thought to myself, “I could make Christianity sound just as silly.” For example, we Christians believe that God is big enough to create the universe yet small […]
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