“Yours Faithfully, Ambrose Hutchison: Recollections of a Lifetime at Kalaupapa,” edited by Anwei Skinsnes Law, published by Ka Ohana O Kalaupapa, 233 pages. Order at www.kalaupapaohana.org/new-book. Cost is $50 which includes shipping and handling. For more information, contact info.kalaupapa@gmail.com. By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald It would be difficult to invent such a character as […]
Diocese of Honolulu the setting for a novel about a confessor priest
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Page 25. That’s where “Hawaii Catholic Herald” appears in the novel “Lion’s Way” by local writer Rita Ariyoshi and when I knew I had to finish reading the book’s remaining 305 pages. What I found surprised me. It is not every day that you come across a novel about […]
Hawaii, Vermont island link in new Catholic travelogue
Review by Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald “52 Masses: A Journey to Experience Catholicism Across America.” By Daniel Markham. Peregrino Press Some people have a bucket list to visit all of the U.S. states. Daniel Markham upped that goal to include attending Mass in all 50 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. Markham set this […]
BOOK REVIEWS: Trips across Catholic country and into Maui’s Portuguese past
By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald “Monuments, Marvels, and Miracles: A Traveler’s Guide to Catholic America” by Marion Amberg If you’d like to be inspired to visit Catholic landmarks on your next mainland trip, “Monuments, Marvels and Miracles: A Traveler’s Guide to Catholic America” (Our Sunday Visitor) is a fact-filled and well-organized book to browse […]
Book review: In the footsteps of St. Paul
Modern missionaries bring faith back to an ancient post-Communist country stripped of spirit and hope “Light a Candle: A Memoir, A Special Assignment in Albania,” by Sister Lourdes Fernandez, MM, self-published, 2021 Reviewed by Donna Estomago Special to the Herald “Our apostles to Albania, Lourdes Fernandez, Winifred O’Donnell, Vivian Votruba and Gertrude Gallagher, were following […]
Grandma writes a book
Blessed with a rewarding, accomplished life, Ann Githere decided to record it for posterity By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald She is a person who, when told, “You should write a book,” actually did. Ann Piilani Mendiola Githere has had a rewarding, accomplished, blessed life. So three years ago, at age 77, she decided to […]
Book review: ‘GOD’S QUAD’
Hawaii campus minister co-edits award-winning book on ‘student church’ By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald “God’s Quad: Small Faith Communities on Campus and Beyond,” Kevin Ahern and Christopher Derige Malano, Orbis Books, 228 pages, $20 “God’s Quad: Small Faith Communities on Campus and Beyond,” is a 2018 book filled with tangible essays focusing on “the […]
Book review: Forceful smack down of atheism’s claims
By Brian Welter Catholic News Service “Inside the Atheist Mind: Unmasking the Religion of Those Who Say There Is No God” by Anthony DeStefano. Nelson Books (Nashville, Tennessee, 2018). 222 pp., $24.99. Readers of “Inside the Atheist Mind” expecting a tame rebuttal to atheists such as Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins are in […]
Fun, fresh book appeals to hipster Catholics with spiritual swagger
By Regina Lordan Catholic News Service “The Catholic Hipster Handbook: Rediscovering Cool Saints, Forgotten Prayers and Other Weird but Sacred Stuff” by Tommy Tighe. Ave Maria Press (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2017). 206 pp., $15.95. Are you a Catholic hipster? Are you a bespectacled foodie, black skinny jeans and Chucks-wearing Catholic “sneaking a peek at your […]