Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Chaminade credits ‘guarantee’ for record enrollment

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Chaminade University of Honolulu began its new academic year Aug. 26 with a record enrollment of 1,325 new and returning undergraduate students. School officials attributed the historic high to a new “four-year guarantee” launched by the university this summer. The four-year guarantee ensures a student will graduate in four years or less with a bachelor’s […]

Text: Urgent letter to all Catholics in the State of Hawaii from Bishop Larry Silva

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August 22, 2013 Dear Brothers and Sisters: The issue of same-sex marriage is in the limelight once again in our community, with a move for a special legislative session to vote on a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in Hawaii. While the Catholic Church is clear in its insistence that true marriage can only […]

Bishop sends ‘urgent’ call to Catholics to mobilize against same-sex marriage

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Bishop Larry Silva sent an “urgent request” to pastors Aug. 22 to include in parish bulletins over the weekend of Aug. 24-25 a “very important” letter that urges parishioners to ask their state legislators to oppose same-sex marriage. The letter also asks Catholics to pray the rosary daily over the next several weeks, “if possible” […]

House of hope: Former inmate opens transitional home for women out of prison

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Passersby may not think much of the humble one-story residence on Keolu Drive. Nestled in the quiet suburb of Enchanted Lake, shaded by palm trees and set against a backdrop of the Koolaus’ lower slopes, the house seems like your typical Windward Oahu family abode. For Daphne Hookano, however, it is a place where she […]

Text: Bishop Silva’s letter to senators and representatives on same-sex marriage

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August 22, 2013 To: Senators and Members of the House of Representatives of the State of Hawaii Subject: Possible legislation regarding same-sex marriage Honorable Senators and Representatives: Aloha! It is my understanding that the Hawaii State Legislature is planning to take up the issue of legalizing same-sex marriage. I would like to present some thoughts […]

Conversation: Aloha, Sister Rochelle and Sister Joan

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Sister Rochelle Liu, left, and Sister Joan Roddy, Hawaii’s Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia. (HCH photo | Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP)   Boxes have been mailed; a palette shipped. Hawaii’s only two Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia left this week for Tacoma, Wash., leaving the Diocese of Honolulu minus another religious order. […]

Holy Spirit Mass: Mission of education, evangelization requires ‘deliberate effort’

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Catholic School educators pray at the Mass of the Holy Spirit Aug. 19 at St. Ann Church in Kaneohe. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) “Deliberate effort” is required for Catholic school instructors to continue their important mission of education and evangelization, said Bishop Larry Silva during a special Mass of the Holy Spirit, Aug. […]

Carondelet Sisters’ 75 years of service a ‘patchwork quilt of the love of Christ’

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Visiting Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet stand as they are introduced at the Mass celebrating the 75th anniversary of the order in Hawaii. Standing from left, Sister Anna Bridget Kearns, Sister Helen Janssen and Sister Karen Kennelly. (HCH photo | Patrick Downes) “Yes, we are getting old,” smiled Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet […]

Molokai’s St. Joseph Church in Kamalo receives statue of Brother Joseph Dutton

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On Aug. 15, a 2,000-pound, 7-foot-tall marble statue of Brother Joseph Dutton was pushed, pulled and lifted into place at Molokai’s St. Joseph Church in Kamalo. After weeks of anticipation of its arrival from China, Molokai parishioners got to see the statue’s face for the first time. “I wasn’t sure until right now that it […]

75 years of aloha: Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet became a vital force in the shaping of the church in Hawaii

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It took more than pleading to get the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet to come to Hawaii. There was also some conscience tugging involved. Hawaii’s Bishop Stephen Alencastre’s 1936 cabled entreaty to the mother superior general in St. Louis, Mo., for “at least six” sisters ended with this guilt-inducing conclusion: “Otherwise obliged to close […]