Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Damien sees abrupt changes in leadership

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Christian Brother Brian Walsh, president of Damien Memorial School for the past 18 months, “will not be returning” this fall, said Brother Kevin M. Griffith, province leader of the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers North America in a June 25 letter to the school community. Taking his place as head […]

Loss and sadness

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Catholic educators work to ease blow of pandemic-induced school closings By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service CLEVELAND — The announcement that two historic Catholic schools in the Diocese of Worcester, Massachusetts, were closing for good as the academic year ended sent a wave of loss and sadness across the diocese. St. Mary’s Schools, founded in […]

Chaminade preparing for in-person instruction

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Chaminade University of Honolulu is preparing to welcome students to campus this fall for in-person instruction based on a “robust” coronavirus plan the school is working out with public health experts. Undergraduates begin on Aug. 24, graduate students on July 6, 2020. The university is getting ready “to deliver the best academic experience possible as […]

Missing friends more than graduation ceremonies

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Local Catholic twelfth graders share about the impact of COVID-19 on the end of high school By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Like twelfth graders across the country, Hawaii Catholic school seniors have seen a radical change to the end of their high school careers after the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. Instead of senior […]

Graduation adaptation: plans that have been adjusted due to COVID-19

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Here’s a sampling of local graduation plans that have been adjusted due to COVID-19 Damien Memorial School, Kalihi, Oahu, will stream its graduation ceremony online. The school president, principal, master of ceremonies and two students will be physically present in the gym for the commencement exercises, but pictures of all the seniors will be displayed […]

Schools to continue distant learning for remainder of academic year

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Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald All Hawaii parish schools will continue with distance learning for the remainder of the 2019-2020 academic year. The Hawaii Catholic Schools office made the announcement on April 17, shortly after the state public schools superintendent made a similar update for all island public schools. “This decision was based on our […]

Catholic schools continue the academic year with distance learning

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By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald They’ve been videoconferencing math lessons, doing P.E. in the backyard, weaving palm branches for Holy Week, and thanking essential workers with handmade signs and social media shares. Hawaii Catholic schools have moved their academic years online while the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the islands and the world. Here’s […]

In class, at home

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Stay-at-home distance learning in this time of the conoravirus is alive and well at Mary, Star of the Sea School in Waialae-Kahala, reports principal Margaret Rufo. She sent a few photos April 3 to the Hawaii Catholic Herald for a little show-and-tell. Clockwise from upper left, second grade teacher Cheryl Ricordo in front of her […]

Virtual Catholic high school for Oahu’s north shore in the works

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The idea of a web-based St. Michael High School is sounding like a pretty good idea about now By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald With COVID-19 sweeping the country and much of the world, students everywhere have switched to both social distancing and distance learning. But online schooling isn’t a new idea for St. Michael […]

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