By Darlene J.M. Dela Cruz Hawaii Catholic Herald About one out of every five parishes in the Diocese of Honolulu will receive new priests this summer, the traditional time for clergy assignments. Six Island parishes out of 66 will change pastors and six others will welcome new parochial vicars, formerly called associate pastors, as new […]
Heralding back: Meeting the champ
Sister Therese, a Sister of St. Francis of Christian Charity and seventh grade teacher of Cathedral School, grasps one of the most powerful hands in the world when Muhammad Ali greeted her class in downtown Honolulu in February of 1980. The meeting took place on the corner of King and Punchbowl Streets outside Honolulu Hale, […]
Herald receives six national journalism awards
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Hawaii Catholic Herald’s reporter-photographer won three national Catholic Press Association writing awards at the Catholic Media Convention June 3 in St. Louis, Mo. A Herald columnist was also a winner, and the newspaper itself received top recognition for front page design and for its coverage of young adult Catholics. […]
Letter to the Herald: Reasons to ordain women deacons
Pope Francis has accepted a proposal to form a commission to assess the merits of ordaining women as deacons in the Roman Catholic Church. Here is one male Catholic in the pews who applauds and hopes the Holy Father will move quickly and decisively to make it happen. To justify this plea and to find […]
Awards honor spiritual side of scouting
There is a spiritual side to the all-American activity of scouting, and in Hawaii, the Diocese of Honolulu Catholic Committee on Scouting (DHCCS) exists to promote it. Naturally, such an effort would involve the earning of emblems, awards, medals and patches that scouts can display proudly. Forty scouts received these honors at the 2016 Catholic […]
Relic of St. Junipero Serra to bless diocesan July vocation holy hour
The diocese’s monthly Holy Hour for Vocations at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa on July 6 will be a very special one with the presence of a first-class relic of America’s newest saint — Junipero Serra.
Four ‘graduations’ reflect transitions coming to Maui’s St. Anthony schools
By August 2017, according to Marianist Brother Fred Silbereis, a reorganization will result in a single St. Anthony School, comprised of four divisions: the pre-school, the primary school, the middle school and the high school.
Photo: Invasive alien algae
Tyla, a seventh grader at Our Lady of Good Counsel School in Pearl City, displays a handful of invasive algae at Paiko Beach on Maunalua Bay in East Honolulu. On April 11, the school’s sixth through eighth graders donned gloves and tabis to help the environmental organization Malama Maunalua remove the unwanted plants that are […]
Photo: Franciscan officers chosen
The Secular Franciscan Regional Fraternity of Hawaii recently celebrated its tri-annual election of officers at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. Visitors from the national fraternity observed the elections and gave encouraging talks about our Franciscan way of life. The Hawaii region has six fraternities, two on Oahu, two on the Big Island […]
Father Thomas Choo, Congregation of the Sacred Hearts: The prayer of the sigh
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald There is a story of a person who was rushing to finish work and everything else in order to get to the mosque on time for prayer. Unfortunately, he still arrived late and wasn’t able to participate in the service. In great […]
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