Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz

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Easter is just a hop, skip and jump away, quizzicals. I hope your journey through Lent this year has deepened your faith. Looking forward to celebrating “Resurrection Day” with you — and seeing how you do on the following quiz. 1) Saints Which of the following is true about St. Ansovinus, whose feast day is […]

Office for Social Ministry: Hearing stories of hope from around the world

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In this Jubilee Year of Mercy, Catholic Relief Services is offering a mobile device app for its Lenten Rice Bowl program that focuses on hope. The CRS Rice Bowl app provides a daily prayer reflection, brief weekly videos telling “stories of hope” from countries around the world, recipes from these countries and a “calculator” to help compute your Lenten almsgiving.

Photos: 24 Hours for the Lord

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Faithful in the Diocese of Honolulu joined other Catholics around the world in “24 Hours for the Lord,” an initiative for the Year of Mercy which Pope Francis called to be celebrated March 4-5. At the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, the 24 hours of adoration, reconciliation, prayer, praise and worship started at […]

At Our Lady of Good Counsel School, reading has its rewards and ‘penalties’

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By Ginger Kamisugi Special to the Herald Reading — besides enlightening, instructing and delighting the reader — has a number of additional fun and unexpected rewards at Our Lady of Good Counsel School in Pearl City. Each year, school librarian Heidi Valencia challenges the students to read a certain number of books for her annual […]

Kauai’s Catholic preschools receive Weinberg tuition assistance grants

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald A representative of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation went to Kauai March 5 bearing gifts for preschools — generous grants for tuition assistance for children from low income families. Two of the beneficiaries were Catholic schools, St. Catherine Early Learning Center in Kapaa and, on the other side […]

Heralding back: March 11, 2106

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News from pages past 50 years ago — March 11, 1966 Overall view in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday as Pope Paul blessed a fleet of 72 trucks and the food they are to distribute to the hungry people of India. The pope’s appeal for aid to famine-sufferers, sponsored by L’Osservatore Romano, Vatican daily, had […]

Chaminade University honors three who exemplify Marianist values

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Chaminade University of Honolulu recognized three members of its community who exemplify Marianist values. The school president Marianist Brother Bernard Ploeger and rector Marianist Father George Cerniglia made the presentations Feb. 23 at the university’s Heritage Awards Ceremony on campus in the Mystical Rose Oratory. Here are those honored: Dr. Gail Grabowsky, associate professor in […]

Photo: Renewal of vows

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More than 40 couples renewed their wedding vows at Mass on Sunday, Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, in Chaminade University’s Mystical Rose Oratory. Marianist Father Paul Fitzpatrick blessed the couples and their families and encouraged them to continue to love one another. The annual renewal of vows has been sponsored by the school’s alumni relations since […]