Chuukese deacon helps reconnect fellow Micronesians to east Hawaii Island Catholic community By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald MOUNTAIN VIEW, Hawaii — If you browse the names of those entering the Catholic Church in Hawaii this Easter, you’ll spot one of the longest lists of names under the small St. Theresa Parish in Mountain View […]
Easter conversion story: ‘Lord, I am not worthy’
‘Wonderful’ school community helped lead art teacher through her final steps to the Catholic faith By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Stacey Taylor has made her art class mobile at Mary, Star of the Sea School in Waialae-Kahala due to COVID-19. Instead of students coming to her art room, she wheels her “art cart” between […]
Easter stories: A family faith affair
Though the pandemic has put Easter Vigil initiations on hold, two Oahu families are eager and waiting to become Catholic By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald For Tiffany Welch, it was a surprising statement by her preschooler. For Jason and Victoria Castiglione, it was going on a marriage retreat. Both experiences led these Hawaii residents […]
Dream come true: a ‘little bit’ Catholic to the real thing
Conversion story Enrollment in a Catholic school leads to baptism at Easter By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald When Dream Poe-Shippy transferred from a local public school to St. John the Baptist School in Kalihi at the start of the 2018-19 school year, he was ready for a change. The seventh grader had struggled some […]
