Bishop Larry Silva met with the Serra Club of Honolulu March 8 at St. Stephen Diocesan Center to discuss vocations. The Serrans pictured with the bishop, from left, are Deacon Ron Choo, Randall Tom, Lou Carnazzo, Chuck Furr, Vanna Malalis-Omoto, David Belatti, June Brieske, Judy Datzman, Marvin Scharosch, Joe Weldon, Tom Grant, Jim Walsh and […]
Photo: Aloha, now and then
Richard De Costa welcomes the newest Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary to St. Elizabeth Parish in Aiea last month, Sister Belen Policher, left, and Sister Divina Delostrico, both of the Philippines. The 93-year-old, who has been with the parish “forever,” remembers welcoming the first Dominican Sisters from the Philippines to the parish in […]
Photo: Valley Island catechumens
The Maui Vicariate Rite of Election March 5 at St. Theresa Church, Kihei, welcomed 16 catechumens from six Valley Isle parishes stating their intent to enter fully into the life of the Catholic Church. Their teachers and godparents, as well as Deacon Pat Constantino, Marianist Father Roland Bunda and Father Jaime Jose were there to […]
Photo: Prayers for America
A group of faithful Catholics gathered March 11 at the state capitol building in Honolulu to pray the rosary for world peace. The group meets every second Saturday of the month at 12 noon at capitol lawn near the corner of Punchbowl and Beretania streets. They are encouraging other parishioners to join them in the […]
Grant provides CPR kits to Hawaii Catholic schools
Hawaii Catholic Herald If you are going to suddenly stop breathing, a good place to do it would be in a Hawaii Catholic school. That’s because last month they all received CPR student training kits, thanks to an $18,000 grant from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation and the American Heart Association. The goal here […]
Talk story: Work gives life meaning, dignity, a future
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “When one has turned money, property, and work into one’s calling of service with others, then the joy of sharing and the feeling that we are all one family does not pass away” (Blessed Oscar Romero, martyred Archbishop of El Salvador, Rice Bowl 2017) During Lent, Rice Bowl provides daily reminders […]
The local Lenten table
The Hawaii Catholic Herald reached out to some of the Islands’ notable chefs to seek out fresh takes on Lenten fare. These recipes personally shared by the chefs focus on farm-to-table local ingredients and can be made easily by faithful home cooks.
Catholic Charities opens phase one of affordable senior housing
Meheula Vista, Mililani Mauka Story and photos by Darlene J.M. Dela Cruz Hawaii Catholic Herald On state land nestled in a cool, quiet Mililani Mauka suburb, Catholic Charities Hawaii officially opened a new affordable housing complex for Island seniors. A Feb. 28 blessing ceremony brought community members together with Catholic Charities Hawaii staff, Catholic parishioners, […]
Number of marriage nullity decisions doubled in Year of Mercy
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald The Diocese of Honolulu judged twice the number of “declarations of nullity,” commonly called marriage annulments, during the “Holy Year of Mercy” than the year before. Judicial vicar Father Mark Gantley, who heads the diocesan Tribunal office, said he “rendered 40 decisions in 2015 and 80 decisions in 2016.” […]
Hawaii bishop joins others in allowing St. Paddy’s Day corned beef, however …
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Bishop Larry Silva may not be Irish, but he has gotten in the spirit of St. Paddy’s Day this year by issuing a “dispensation from abstinence from meat” for anyone whose celebration of the wearin’ of the green would be incomplete without a slab of corned beef. When St. […]
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