Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

DEACON MICHAEL DAVID ROSS | 1940-2019: Retired deacon, scholar, theologian, was a convert from Judaism

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  Deacon Michael David Ross, a former professor and academic dean at the Pontifical College Josephinum who retired in Hawaii five years ago, died March 3 while hospitalized in Honolulu of kidney failure and complications from severe pancreatitis. A sign in his room asked that he be addressed as “Deacon Mike,” reflecting his commitment to […]

FATHER VINCENT KIEN NGUYEN | 1952-2019

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Vietnamese chaplain understood how to engage his community By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Father Vincent Kien Nguyen, who served as chaplain of Hawaii’s Vietnamese Catholic community for about 10 years, died in Orange County, California, on Jan. 14. He was 66 years old and a priest for 30 years. “I remember Father Kien as […]

Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Irene E. Solzbacher | 1934-2016

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Missioner for 65 years served as a psychiatrist on the Waianae Coast Maryknoll Sister Irene E. Solzbacher, a medical doctor and psychiatrist who spent nearly four decades serving in Hawaii, mostly as a psychiatrist on the Waianae coast in the 1980s and 1990s, died Nov. 29 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Maryknoll, New York. […]

Obituary: Father Joseph Truong Ky, PSS | 1929-2018

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Refugee priest help found Hawaii’s Vietnamese Catholic Community Father Joseph Truong Ky, a seminary professor and Vietnam refugee who helped establish Hawaii’s Vietnamese Catholic Community, died Dec. 30 at Mercy McCune Brooks Hospital in Carthage, Missouri. He was 89 years old and a priest for 59 years. Father Ky was a member of the Sulpicians, […]

FATHER RONALD JOHN BURKE | 1945-2018

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Former Navy chaplain served Honolulu diocese for 8 years By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Father Ronald John Burke, a retired U.S. Navy chaplain from Detroit who served as a parish priest in Hawaii from the 1980s until 2002, died Oct. 30 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was 74 and a priest for 46 […]

MARYKNOLL SISTER MARIA ROSARIO DALEY | 1923-2018

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Much-loved teacher, last wearer of the old habit, the end of an era By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Maryknoll Sister Maria Rosario Daley, who served more than 50 years in Hawaii as a teacher, high school counselor and diocesan personnel director, among other ministries, died Oct. 18 at the Maryknoll Sisters residence in Manoa. […]

SISTER M. JEANETTE JOAQUIN, OSF |1927-2018

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Lifetime as a Sister of St. Francis were ‘years of love’ Sister M. Jeanette Joaquin, a Sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities who spent decades teaching elementary school before serving in Hawaii parishes and in other ministries, died Sept. 12 at St. Francis Convent in Honolulu after a lengthy illness. She was 91 […]