2020 in review A look back at the events and images from the very unusual year in the Diocese of Honolulu Compiled by Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Here is a month-by-month review of the Catholic news in Hawaii in 2020 as reported in the Hawaii Catholic Herald. January Accompanied by vicar general Msgr. Gary […]
Diocese’s retired priests are a diverse group
But all gave their final years of active ministry as priests of the Diocese of Honolulu By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Hawaii’s retired diocesan priests are a very diverse group. Only a handful have island roots. Most have backgrounds elsewhere — with religious orders, the military or other dioceses. Some haven’t been to Hawaii […]
Putting your houses in order
In the last decade, Marlene De Costa has overhauled the Diocese of Honolulu’s real estate By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald On the whiteboard in Marlene De Costa’s office are two handwritten, faded slogans she’s kept up as a reminder of her mission as the Diocese of Honolulu’s real estate director: “Specialize in the impossible” […]
From the corporate to the Catholic world
Lisa Sakamoto has spent a decade overseeing the financial management of the Diocese of Honolulu By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald When Lisa Sakamoto attended her first Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference on the mainland after her 2009 hiring to lead the Diocese of Honolulu’s finance office, she kept being asked by fellow conference attendees where […]
Diocese of Honolulu 2017 Lenten Regulations
Prepared by the diocesan Office of Worship FASTING In the dioceses in the United States, Catholics aged 18 through 59 are bound to fast on both Ash Wednesday (March 1) and Good Friday (April 14). To fast means to consume one full meal a day at most, although taking of other, smaller quantities of food […]
Proliferation of vicars
The word means deputy or representative and is used at many levels of church life By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Parochial vicars seem to be appearing more frequently in parishes. Meanwhile, associate pastors have been vanishing from parish staff listings. What’s a parochial vicar? Let’s start with the “pastor.” Every parish gets one, or […]
400 gather in cathedral to mark 75th anniversary of diocese
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Catherine Hughes got a better seat this time — inside the church — for the Mass celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Diocese of Honolulu Sept. 10 in the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. She had been present with her mother on the same day three quarters […]
Diocese of Honolulu: 75 years: Diocese celebrates a rich heritage
By Darlene J.M. Dela Cruz Hawaii Catholic Herald The bombing of Pearl Harbor. Hawaii’s statehood. The canonization of two saints. Countless baptisms, first Communions, weddings, funerals, ordinations, daily and Sunday Masses. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu has been through quite a bit in seven-and-a-half decades. Island Catholics over the years have been blessed with […]
Diocese of Honolulu: 75 years: Through the decades
The diocese through the decades On Sept. 10, 1941, Hawaii’s Catholic church, a missionary outpost for 114 years, was elevated to the status of “diocese” — the Diocese of Honolulu. It was, for island Catholics, an honor perhaps akin to the territory of Hawaii becoming a state of the union. Pope Pius XII appointed Bishop […]
Diocese of Honolulu: 75 years: Bishop Silva’s message
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Peace be with you! Some of our parishioners are old enough to remember when the Catholic Church in Hawaii was called the Apostolic Vicariate of Hawaii, as well as the time 75 years ago when it became the Diocese of Honolulu. It went from being “mission territory,” dependent upon Rome for […]
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