‘Enveloped and embraced’ By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald While only 75 people were able to attend the temporary vows of Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Kristina DeNeve on June 15 at the Holy Family Chapel in St. Louis, Missouri, due to COVID-19 and distance, another 150 or so people logged on to the […]
Teacher of the Year has taught 40 years at Maryknoll
By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Mary Jane Vannatta was irritated. It was the end of the school year, her computer was acting up, and she needed to give her students a quiz. Plus, for some reason, other Maryknoll School faculty members kept telling Vannatta that she and her class should watch a livestream of […]
Housing vouchers a win-win for local landlords
This article represents a joint message from the diocesan Office for Social Ministry, HOPE Services Hawaii, Catholic Charities Hawaii and the Hawaii Catholic Conference, working with the Office of the Governor’s Coordinator on Homelessness. While homelessness often seems an intractable problem, Hawaii has an opportunity to significantly reduce homelessness due to unprecedented levels of housing […]
Sister Ma. Teresa Ebanen, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: Ancestral values
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald My family’s farm in Iyasan village in Igbaras in the Philippines is an ancestral farm. It belongs to the Ebanen family. Having been passed down from grandfather and great-grandfather, my family continues certain traditions. Growing up, I remember walking 45 minutes across […]
From Maui to Miami, following The Way
Local boy is ordained a priest for the Neocatechumenal Way in Florida By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald On May 8, at a liturgy more than 4,700 miles away from where he grew up, Father Paul Pierce became a Catholic priest for the Archdiocese of Miami. This vocation would have surprised his younger self, Father […]
Governor signs bill designating January as Kalaupapa Month
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Imagine if, for the health of the community during an epidemic, you were asked to quarantine, not for 10 days, not for 14 days, not for one year, but for the rest of your life. That is what 8,000 Hawaii citizens were forced to do between 1866 to 1969, […]
In appreciation: What the Maui Marianists meant to me
Maui resident and lay Marianist Norman Franco wrote this article on June 12 for Marianist Father Roland Bunda, pastor of St. Anthony Parish in Wailuku, Maui, and his fellow Marianists in appreciation for the group’s long presence on the Valley Isle. After 138 years, the brothers and fathers of the community, also known as the […]
Hawaii Catholic Herald wins 7 Catholic media awards for 2020 work
The Hawaii Catholic Herald won seven Catholic Media Association awards this year for work done in 2020. The newly renamed CMA (formerly the Catholic Press Association) held its second virtual Catholic Media Conference June 8-10. This year’s media awards were announced in a pre-recorded video shown during a Zoom awards ceremony on June 10. Like […]
Invitation: Emerge from the pandemic by going on retreat
Most stories these days start with some version of “what a crazy year it’s been.” We’ve been restricted to our homes, unable to travel to visit loved ones, witness a grandchild’s first steps, or even walk the streets of our own communities without fear or a facemask. The time has come to emerge. Parish churches […]
Three Carmelite Seculars make their first promises
Hawaii’s Discalced Carmelite Secular Group celebrated a “first promise” ceremony for three of its members June 5 in the Carmelite Monastery chapel on the grounds of St. Stephen Diocesan Center. Alda Mae Takabayashi, Elaine Gibson and Celia Ona made an initial three-year pledge to pursue personal holiness through Carmelite spirituality and to care for others […]
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