Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Photo: Oh, happy day

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Allen Agpaoa Pacquing professed perpetual vows in the Society of Mary (Marianists) Oct. 3 in Guadalupe Chapel on the campus of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. Father Oscar Vasquez, left, provincial of the Marianist Province of the United States, presided at the Eucharist and received the vows. Father Tim Kenney, right, assistant for […]

Photo: Blessings for new academic year

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  Marianist Father Martin Solma celebrates the Mass of the Holy Spirit Sept. 18 in the Mystical Rose Oratory for Chaminade University of Honolulu’s annual spiritual convocation blessing the new academic year. Attendance was limited by social distancing, but the liturgy was livestreamed. The convocation included a re-commitment ceremony for the Marianist Educational Associates, a […]

Photo: Wow, kau kau!

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Jeffrey Naumann, the new program director of Hale Kau Kau, a program of St. Theresa Church in Kihei that provides meals to the poor and homeless, poses June 19 with the organization’s new van, blessed that day. The feeding program prepares and serves hot, nutritious meals to all who need them every day of the […]

Photo: Corpus Christi celebration

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Above, Bishop Larry Silva holds the monstrance carrying the Holy Eucharist in a procession around the parking lot of the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Kalihi June 14 on the Feast of Corpus Christi. The bishop’s traditional Corpus Christi procession, the mile walk from the co-cathedral to the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, […]

Photo: International quarantined choir

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Dominican Sister Malia Dominica Wong was interviewing a sister June 17 at the Sacred Hearts Sisters’ Malia o ka Malu convent in Kaimuki when she heard “angelic” singing coming from the chapel. Checking out the source of the beautiful music she found a choir of familiar and unfamiliar faces. The familiar faces belonged to Hawaii’s […]

Photo: Baby bottle donation

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Gary Jose, the Knights of Columbus state program director, presents a donation check to Susan Duffy, president of the Pearson Foundation for the Pearson Place Pregnancy Resource Center, which recently relocated to 1145 Bishop Street, in downtown Honolulu, above the Pauline Book and Media Center. The donation of $5172 came from this year’s “Baby Bottle […]

Photos: Maryknoll mask donation

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The Maryknoll School family donated more than 2,500 reusable handmade fabric masks to two local nonprofit organizations, Lanakila Pacific and Navian Hawaii (formerly Hospice Hawaii), May 22, to help kupuna and nurses stay protected against COVID-19. For two-and-a-half weeks, using repurposed Maryknoll aloha-print fabric, families, alumni and community members took up needle and thread to […]