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 […]
SISTER ROSE FATIMA LEITE, OSF | 1933-2019
Hawaii-born sister a teacher for 50 years and a great cook Sister Rose Fatima Leite, a Sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, who was a primary school teacher for more than 50 years, died Jan. 16 at St. Francis Convent in Honolulu after a long illness. She was 87 and a religious sister […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Irene E. Solzbacher | 1934-2016
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
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
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 […]
DEACON JOAQUIN ‘KIN’ MUNA BORJA | 1949-2018
He loved and lived his diaconate, and was a strong advocate for life By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Deacon Kin Borja was feeling so happy he wanted everyone in the car to sing. He was driving with family and friends from Sacramento, California, to Lake Tahoe on Oct. 25 for a much anticipated vacation. […]
MARYKNOLL SISTER MARIA ROSARIO DALEY | 1923-2018
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. […]
FATHER GEORGE MADDOCK, OFM Cap | 1937-2018
Capuchin Franciscan introduced brown robed friars to the diocese Capuchin Franciscan Father George Maddock, who with the late Father Paul Minchak introduced his community of brown robed friars to Hawaii in 1984, died Sept. 30 at St. Clare Friary, Yonkers, New York, at age 81. He was a Franciscan for 63 years and a priest […]
SISTER M. JEANETTE JOAQUIN, OSF |1927-2018
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 […]
Big Isle artist who made block prints of St. Damien and St. Marianne dies
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Big Island artist Dietrich Varez, whose block print images of Molokai’s St. Damien de Veuster and St. Marianne Cope were incorporated into popular aloha wear, died Aug. 14, at the Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home on Hawaii Island. He was 79. Though not a Catholic, Varez considered Hawaii’s two […]
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