Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Kalaupapa love story

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Several years ago, Jimmy Brede sat in the shade outside Leahi Hospital on Oahu waiting for the van to drive up. When it did, the door opened and out came his wife, Nancy.

“There she is!” Jimmy sang out as if it was the first time he’d laid eyes on her. “She’s going to be 87, but she’s still my Sweet Sixteen.”

Talk Story | Office for Social Ministry: Lenten stories of hope

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“It is a good thing that the Crucifixion and Death of Jesus are not to be judged by human standards. When we think of the hardships so many in our world face, we might easily grow discouraged; but our God offers us hope, and wants all of us to work together to build a world of peace and justice.” (CRS Project Rice Bowl 2016)

Known to all as Father ‘Jojo,’ La Salette priest was much loved

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Everyone called him Father “Jojo.” It was easier to say than his formal name, Father Joven Toledo Junio, and it fit his effervescent personality and boyish looks. So it was a surprise to many who knew the La Salette missionary from his 17 years of service in Hawaii to learn that he died March 6 in the Philippines. He was 57.

Photos: Chrism Mass

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Bishop Larry Silva pours balsam into a container of olive oil as he prepared the sacred chrism during the Chrism Mass at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu, March 17. Deacon John Coughlin, below, carries oil to the sanctuary. The Chrism Mass is the annual liturgy where oils for use in administering the sacraments […]

Photo: For the care of seminarians

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Rhoda Hiro of the Young Ladies Institute of Hawaii on Feb 28 presents Father Bill Shannon, diocesan Director of Seminarians, with a $2,630 check to help support the education of Hawaii’s diocesan seminarians. The check presentation was made at a luncheon after the 8:45 a.m. Mass Father Shannon celebrated at St. Ann Parish in Kaneohe […]

Photo: Valley Isle music

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Island composer Joe Camacho, left, accompanies guest performer Jesse Manibusan at VILAC, the Valley Isle Liturgy and Arts Conference at St. Anthony Parish, Wailuku, March 3-5. The event, a spin-off from BILAC, which started on the Big Island and is now hosted by the Marianists on Oahu, also featured composer Father Michael Joncas, Joe Farias […]

To build a ‘culture of life’

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Building a “culture of life” in the Islands, in which human dignity is respected in all its “beauty” from conception to natural death, begins with a solid understanding of church teachings and a proactive attitude, said the keynote speaker at the diocese’s inaugural Catholics Reaffirming Life Symposium.