Office for Social Ministry “Before any distinction of charisms and ministries, we are all equal in dignity as members of the people of God through baptism.” (Pope Leo XIV, Holy Week 2026) Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus message during Holy Week reminds us that as a faith family, we belong to one church — one ohana […]
Official notices: March 27, 2026
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Join Taize prayer service during Holy Week
By Jon James Special to the Herald Newman Center/Holy Spirit Parish at the University of Hawaii at Manoa will host a Taize Prayer Around the Cross service during Holy Week. The service will take place April 1 at 7 p.m. Parking is available at the former Saint Francis School parking lot or in front of the […]
Photos: Holy Week 2025
Click here to see photos from Holy Week in Hawaii and at the Vatican.
Pope Francis’ role in Holy Week liturgies is undetermined
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — As Pope Francis continues his convalescence, the Vatican published a full calendar of Holy Week and Easter liturgies with no indication of who would preside or be the main celebrant. The list of Masses and other liturgies, released by the master of papal liturgical ceremonies March […]
Holy Week
The Diocese of Honolulu, led by Bishop Larry Silva, celebrated the conclusion of Holy Week and the beginning of the Easter season.
Nicaragua asserts control over church during Holy Week
By David Agren OSV News CUERNAVACA, Mexico — Catholics turned out in large numbers to celebrate Holy Week in Nicaragua. But the ruling Sandinista regime prohibited public exhibitions of faith — such as processions and reenactments of the passion of Christ — as it continued exercising control over religious activities in what’s becoming an increasingly […]
Pope prays that Easter joy breaks through gloom of sin
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — On a bright spring morning, Pope Francis prayed that Christians would experience the joy of Easter and allow Christ’s resurrection to be “the light that illumines the darkness and the gloom in which, all too often, our world finds itself enveloped.” […]
Images of the year’s holiest days
The year’s holiest days Here are photos from Holy Week, April 2-8, celebrated by Bishop Larry Silva.
An energizing, exhausting, holy week
It’s a lot of work organizing all the services and liturgies on the Triduum days and more leading up to Easter By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald By the Easter Vigil, April 16, Bishop Larry Silva’s voice had begun to crack after more than a week of singing, preaching, praying and greeting. He had been […]