Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Conference time: photos

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June was a month of conferences and workshops at St. Stephen Diocesan Center. At right, Susan Searle from the Center for Ministry Development leads a session on “Engaging Parents: Forming Family Faith,” June 19, at the diocese’s Faith Formation Conference for Oahu. Below, parishioners and clergy attend the closing sessions of the three-day Parish Data […]

Manaolana: Hawaii rep at national ministry summit returns with insights, ideas

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The National Young Adult Ministry Summit meets in Washington, D.C., last month. (Photo Courtesy of Makana Aiona)   Creating collaborations between Catholic young adults and their communities was a hot topic at the National Young Adult Ministry Summit in Washington, D.C., May 5-7. The first-ever such meeting, organized in part by the National Catholic Young […]

Bishop expects a priest at Kalaupapa for the ‘foreseeable future’

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A view of the Kalaupapa peninsula from the top of the switchback trail that leads down the cliff to the settlement. (HCH file photo)   Shortly after St. Damien made his historic first step onto the shore of Kalaupapa on May 10, 1873, and assessed the situation, he informed his superior, Bishop Louis Maigret, that […]

BILAC’s 40th anniversary promises a parade of past musical luminaries

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Marianist BILAC (Big Island Liturgy and Arts Conference) began on the Big Island nearly 40 years ago. With its roots in the Hawaiian culture and the Catholic Marianist tradition, BILAC is an event committed to providing communitarian-based experiences of prayer, spiritual growth and formation in the liturgical arts. Its early home was Malia Puka O […]

Photo: New Franciscan fraternity

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New Franciscan fraternity The Korean-speaking St. Clare Fraternity of the secular Franciscan Order was established June 6 in the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. The group was sponsored by Oahu’s Marianne Cope Fraternity. Hawaii’s secular Franciscans also have fraternities in Kona, Hilo, and on Maui, and an emerging Fraternity on Kauai. The secular […]

Photo: Walking the extra mile

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Walking the extra mile About 100 people walked from the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Kailhi-Palama to the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in downtown Honolulu June 7 for the diocese’s annual Eucharistic procession on the Feast of Corpus Christi. During the 1.25-mile procession, marchers sang hymns and prayed. Father Dominic Hoan Nguyen, […]

Bishop’s Circle fundraising campaign up 20 percent from last year

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As of last month, The Bishop’s Circle fundraising campaign collected nearly $240,000 from 400 donors, a 20 percent increase over what was received in last year’s appeal, according to the diocesan director of stewardship and development Mark Clark. More than 150 of the donors are “donor society members,” making donations in one of five gift […]

Hawaii welcomes newest priest : ‘From this day forward, the risen Christ will make himself sacramentally present in Nick Brown’

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Diocesan vicar general Father Gary Secor greets Father Brown with the fraternal “kiss of peace.” (HCH photos | Darlene Dela Cruz)   For more than seven minutes the priests lined up to lay their hands gently, silently, purposefully, for a second or two, on Nicholas Brown’s head, as Bishop Larry Silva had done moments before […]