Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Ghanaian priest working in Hawaii celebrates 25th anniversary

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Father Clement Beeri, a diocesan priest from Ghana who has worked in Hawaii for the past two years, celebrates his 25th anniversary of ordination this year. The interim administrator of St. John the Baptist Church, Kalihi, was ordained for the Diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga, on Aug. 10, 1996. “I feel […]

Hawaii Family Forum member survey exposes strong anti-vaccine sentiment

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Hawaii Family Forum, a moderate to conservative, mostly evangelical Christian organization with a Catholic connection, wanted to know where its members stood on the coronavirus pandemic. So they took a poll. The survey, conducted March 29-April 7, was not scientific. Hawaii Family Forum president Eva Andrade said she simply […]

Hawaii to join global rosary for priests

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By Easter Almuena Special to the Herald This year, the Worldpriest Global Rosary Relay for Priests will have its continuous recitation of the Marian prayer on Friday, June 11, with participants in more than 500 locations throughout the world. Hawaii is scheduled to recite the Sorrowful Mysteries at 11:30 a.m. on that day in the […]

Mother’s prayers, wisdom helped guide vocation of ‘Ace’ Tui

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Who calls Deacon Ese’ese “Ace” Tui from American Samoa every Sunday, his first and most constant source of vocational support and counsel? “My mother!” said the seminarian. The prayers and wise advice of Miriama Tasi Toleafoa Aumaivao Tui will come to fruition at 6 p.m. May 21 at the […]

For youth, making music a natural step to Mass participation

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By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald On Sunday afternoons at St. John Vianney Church in Kailua, you’ll hear the sound of contemporary Christian music coming from a room where middle school and high school parishioners are playing piano, bass, clarinet, electric guitar, synthesizer and percussion instruments. Several vocalists sing along. They are practicing ahead of […]

Hawaii’s Knights of Columbus meet virtually for their annual convention

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On April 24, the 42nd annual Knights of Columbus Hawaii State Council Convention opened virtually with a prayer by State Chaplain Sacred Hearts Father Lane Akiona. For the second year in a row the convention could not be held in person, due to the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Newly elected Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly, […]

With deacon’s retirement, an era ends for the Diocese of Honolulu

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Richard Port first learned of the permanent diaconate in the early 1960s in Ghana, West Africa, where he and his wife Ann (Antonette) were teaching secondary school in President John F. Kennedy’s newly established Peace Corps. There, on Sundays, the corps’ first married couple would hitchhike 25 miles to […]

State of the pews

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Has church attendance gone back to normal now that the Mass dispensation is lifted in the Diocese of Honolulu? By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva lifted his dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to the COVID-19 pandemic on Easter Sunday. The pass on going to Mass had been in […]

Sister M. Emilie Basitas, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: Without prayer, I would not be here

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald As a temporary professed sister, I used to dread applying for our yearly renewal of vows. One in my group was thinking of joining the cloistered nuns, and so was I. However, one year my superior said to me, “Em, Em, you […]