The Hawaii Catholic Community Foundation, which manages the money collected through the Diocese of Honolulu’s With Grateful Hearts capital campaign, reported that, as of June 30, it has received more than $33 million of the more than $50 million originally pledged. All parishes were required to participate in the With Grateful Hearts campaign. The first […]
Kalaupapa exhibit to display historic and contemporary photos
“A Reflection of Kalaupapa: Past, Present and Future,” a photo exhibit sponsored by Ka Ohana O Kalaupapa, will open with an 11:30 a.m. blessing on Aug. 13 at historic Paschoal Hall in Kalaupapa. Hosted by Kalaupapa National Historical Park, the exhibit will open through Sept. 12 on days to be determined. It is free. The […]
Big Island churches spared from winds of Tropical Storm Iselle
Island parishes and Catholic schools were spared from major damages when Tropical Storm Iselle hit Hawaii, Aug. 8. It was the first tropical storm to hit the state in more than 20 years. Iselle made landfall on the east side of the Big Island during the early morning of Aug. 8. Puna was one of […]
Chuck Furr re-elected to board of Serra International
Chuck Furr of St. Anthony Parish, Kailua, and district governor of the Serra Club of Honolulu, was re-elected for a third, two-year term on the Serra International board of trustees at the recent international convention in Sacramento, Calif. The board sets the policies and direction for Serra, an organization that promotes and supports vocations to […]
Office for Social Ministry: Standing up for our veterans
Aloha, On Aug. 6, many were preparing for Hurricanes Iselle and Julio to hit Hawaii, including a good number of the state’s full-time National Guardsmen. That same day, it was announced the state had received additional funding, hundreds of thousands of dollars, to help house homeless veterans. One out of every three homeless males in […]
Memorial Mass for Maryknoll Sister Marie Patrice Kehoe
A memorial Mass will be celebrated for Maryknoll Sister Marie Patrice Kehoe at 5 p.m., Aug. 22, at Sacred Hearts Church in Honolulu. Sister Marie Patrice, a native of New York City, died Aug. 9 at Maryknoll Center in Ossining, N.Y. She was 91 and a Maryknoll Sister for 73 years. She came to Hawaii […]
Vatican honors Honolulu cathedral with status of ‘minor basilica’
The Vatican has given Honolulu’s Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace the honorary title of “minor basilica” in recognition of its historic and spiritual significance. The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome granted Bishop Larry Silva’s petition for the special designation with a 200-word decree in Latin dated May […]
A church history: Cathedral becomes a basilica
Compiled from the writing of Father Louis H. Yim and Sacred Hearts Father Robert Schoofs July 7, 1827: Arrival of first Catholic missionaries to Hawaii. July 14, 1827: First recorded Mass on Hawaiian soil celebrated in a grass hut on a rented lot in Honolulu. January 1828: Hawaii’s first Catholic church built on land granted […]
Back to School 2014| Grading the ‘System,’ an interview with the superintendent
On a scale from A to F, Michael Rockers measures the success of Hawaii Catholic schools’ 3-year-old strategic plan As local Catholic school students once again hit the books, school administrators and teachers continue their work creating thriving academic environments that foster faith, integrity and scholarship in Island youth. Much like the pupils are guided […]
Leis, songs, kisses welcome back St. Marianne to Isles
An employee at the United Airlines cargo facility outside the Honolulu International Airport kisses the casket containing the remains of St. Marianne Cope, which arrived in Honolulu from Syracuse, N.Y., July 27. St. Marianne’s remains would be enshrined in the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace on July 31. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela […]
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