Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis was “a pope among the people, with an open heart toward everyone,” said Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, as he presided over the funeral of the pope, who died April 21 at the age of 88. And the people — an estimated […]
Dates for public viewing, funeral are set
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The funeral Mass of Pope Francis will be celebrated April 26 in St. Peter’s Square, the Vatican announced. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, will preside over the liturgy, which begins a nine-day period of official mourning and daily memorial Masses. The […]
Church has precise rules for navigating time between popes
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Centuries of experience dealing with the death, or occasional resignation, of a pope has left the Catholic Church with thorough instructions detailing who has responsibility for planning the funeral, preparing for the election of a new pope and taking care of essential business in the meantime. […]
CHARLES ‘CHUCK’ E. FURR / 1938-2024: Active layman lived life with ‘one foot in heaven’
Hawaii Catholic Herald Charles “Chuck” E. Furr lived life with “one foot in heaven,” said Bishop Larry Silva, in describing the exceptional layman who died Oct. 8 at his home in Kailua at age 86. Bishop Silva presided at Furr’s funeral Oct. 17 at St. Anthony Church, Furr’s home parish. “God blessed him with a […]
Priest’s funeral brings together lives he touched over 83 years
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald The funeral Mass for Father Patrick Henry Freitas Dec. 7 brought together people in Honolulu’s Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa whose lives he had touched in his 83 years on earth and his 57 years of priesthood — former parishioners including a group from rural Maui, catechists whom he taught […]
Photo: May he rest in peace
Above, Bishop Larry Silva blesses the casket of Father Louis “Harry” Yim during his funeral Mass Nov. 2 in the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. Father Yim, the former diocesan archivist and historian, died Oct. 13 in Honolulu at age 93. Left, Father Yim’s pallbearers, priests all, place the deceased’s casket into the […]
Funeral Mass for Father Freitas scheduled
Funeral Mass of Father Patrick Freitas will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, 712 N. School Street in Honolulu. Bishop Larry Silva will be the presider. Visitation before Mass begins at 10 a.m. Refreshments will follow the Mass at the church hall. Father Freitas died Oct. 13 […]
Father Nakagawa funeral April 13 at Chaminade oratory
Funeral services for Marianist Father Francis Nakagawa will be April 13 starting with visitation at 4:30 p.m. at Mystical Rose Oratory on the campus of Chaminade University and Saint Louis School, followed by a eulogy at 5:30 p.m. and a funeral Mass celebrated by Bishop Larry Silva. Supper will follow afterward in the university’s Henry […]