Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Rite of acolyte last major step before ordination for 13 deacon candidates

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The deacon class on April 13 at St. Stephen Diocesan Center after receiving academic certificates of completion from Chaminade University. Also in the photo are members of the deacon formation team and Chaminade professors. (Photo courtesy of Office for Deacon Formation)   Thirteen men studying for the permanent diaconate will receive the rite of acolyte, […]

Two Hawaii-based Marianists celebrating anniversaries of vows

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A Marianist brother and a Marianist priest, both who reside in Hawaii, are celebrating milestone jubilees this year. Marianist Father Joseph L. Priestley, who resides in retirement at Marianist Hall on the Chaminade University of Honolulu campus, is marking his 70th year of profession. The first association with the Marianists of the Honolulu-native began in […]

Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Marian Muehlbauer, marking 60th jubilee year of religious life

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Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Marian Muehlbauer, who served 32 years in Hawaii, is celebrating her 60th anniversary in religious life this year at the St. Joseph Provincial House in St. Louis, Mo. Born in Green Bay, Wis., and baptized Janet Theresa, Sister Marian entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1953 […]

Chaminade names winners of nonprofit entrepreneur contest

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Ho‘oulu Pacific took first place in the Chaminade University Hogan Entrepreneurs/American Savings Bank Non-Profit Business Plan Competition for its Waimanalo Aquaponics Project, April 23. More than $30,000 in prizes was awarded to eight winners of the competition. This was the sixth competition held at Chaminade University. The winners, their projects and their prizes are: First […]

Workshop guides school reps through nuts and bolts of grant writing

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Development officers and other representatives from nine Oahu Catholic schools and one representative from Kauai attended the first grants and funding workshop sponsored by the Hawaii Catholic Schools Diocesan Board on April 25 at St. Stephen Diocesan Center. Twenty-five people participated in the four-and-a-half-hour presentation which featured as guest speaker Maryknoll School’s director of institutional […]

Ordination in cathedral to mark 150th anniversary of St. Damien’s ordination

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Bishop Larry Silva will ordain a member of St. Damien’s religious order to the priesthood on the 150th anniversary of the saint’s own ordination, in the same spot the Belgian missionary was ordained. The bishop will ordain Sacred Hearts brother Ajit Baliar Singh during a 6 p.m. Mass May 21 in the Cathedral of Our […]