Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Heralding back: April 8, 2016

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — April 29, 1966 A building and renovating program is under way at Sacred Hearts Academy. The unsafe old seventh-and-eighth grade building which occupied the center of the campus has been demolished. Construction will soon begin on a new two-story building on the former athletic field along Harding […]

Heralding back: March 11, 2106

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News from pages past 50 years ago — March 11, 1966 Overall view in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday as Pope Paul blessed a fleet of 72 trucks and the food they are to distribute to the hungry people of India. The pope’s appeal for aid to famine-sufferers, sponsored by L’Osservatore Romano, Vatican daily, had […]

Heralding back: Feb. 26, 2016

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — March 4, 1966 Paul Cardinal Marella, archpriest of St. Peter’s basilica, places ashes on the head of Pope Paul VI. The Ash Wednesday ritual, usually held privately in the pope’s chapel, this year was performed before thousands of people attending the Wednesday audience in St. Peter’s as […]

Heralding back: Feb. 12, 2016

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Feb. 11, 1966 An editorial cartoon in honor of Catholic Press Month in February. 25 years ago — Feb. 15, 1991 John Paul II appeals for negotiations, immediate end to war As Muslim countries tried to draft peace plans for the Persian Gulf War, Pope John Paul […]

Heralding back: Jan. 29, 2016

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Jan. 28, 1966 The 1966 Hawaii Catholic Herald Drive opens today when more than 17,000 students of Hawaii Catholic Schools officially become Herald salesmen for the month of February, Catholic Press Month throughout the United States. With subscription forms these students are on their way to your […]

Heralding back: Jan. 15, 2016

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Jan. 14, 1966 The Most Reverend James J. Sweeney, Bishop of Honolulu (second from left) turned the first spade of dirt for the new convent, girls dormitory, and chapel of St. Francis Convent High School. The construction will cost over eight hundred thousand dollars. It is part […]

Heralding back: Dec, 4, 2015

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Dec. 3, 1965 Wallace Chock, Peter Tabilang, and Christopher Caminos (left to right) are seminarians at St. Stephen’s Seminary and are busy sorting the parcels arriving for the Parcel Post Booth. The parcels will be available for Saturday’s (December 4) annual bazaar at the seminary grounds, sponsored […]

Heralding back: Nov. 20, 2015

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Nov. 19, 1965 Thanksgiving Day in Japan is Kansha Bi. Though the name is different, the custom of giving thanks is the same the world over. Sister Martin Jerome of Maryknoll and her kimonoed friends join the rest of the country in saying “arigato,” thank you, for […]

Heralding back: Nov. 6, 2015

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Nov. 5, 1965 Brother J.J. Kennedy, F.S.C.H., coordinator of the Damien Memorial High School Carnival which will be held this weekend, November 4, 5, and 6 on the school grounds at 1401 Houghtailing Street shows Mrs. Margaret Ohara the huge layout for games, activities, food booths, plant […]

Heralding back: Oct. 23, 2015

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Oct. 22, 1965 George Barati (right) rehearses with Shigeru Hotoke (filling in for Richard Kness, tenor, who had not arrived from Washington), Ethel Chung Maxson, Eunice DeMello, and Charles Scharbach (left to right) for tonight’s performance of Beethoven’s MISSA SOLEMNIS. This is the first time this masterpiece […]