Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Grant assists Kalaupapa rare photos project

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The Hawaii Council for the Humanities has awarded the U.S. Province of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts a $5,000 “preservation and access grant” for a project identifying Kalaupapa residents in a century-old collection of more than 600 photographic glass plate negatives in the religious order’s archives.

Kalaupapa love story

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Several years ago, Jimmy Brede sat in the shade outside Leahi Hospital on Oahu waiting for the van to drive up. When it did, the door opened and out came his wife, Nancy.

“There she is!” Jimmy sang out as if it was the first time he’d laid eyes on her. “She’s going to be 87, but she’s still my Sweet Sixteen.”

God bless you, Edwin Lelepali

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KALAUPAPA – “God bless.” Whether he was signing a handwritten letter, wrapping up a conversation or seeing you off at the airport, those two words were how Kalaupapa resident Edwin Lelepali bid farewell. He rarely said goodbye. He left you with “God bless.”

Layman. Soldier. Saint? Diocese takes step toward canonization of Joseph Dutton

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The Diocese of Honolulu has taken the first official step on the long and complex road to the possible canonization of an American layman and Civil War veteran who spent half of his life serving leprosy patients in Kalaupapa, Molokai, working side by side with the settlement’s two saints, Damien de Veuster and Marianne Cope. […]

Lost soldier, redeemed

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Cheryl J. Wilkinson, vice president of the Joseph Dutton Guild, shared with the Hawaii Catholic Herald a testimonial about her personal devotion to Dutton. Here is an excerpt. I became involved when I was at Kalaupapa with my husband, Michael. I was standing by St. Damien’s gravesite, and Dr. Maria Devera came up to me […]

Bishop expects a priest at Kalaupapa for the ‘foreseeable future’

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A view of the Kalaupapa peninsula from the top of the switchback trail that leads down the cliff to the settlement. (HCH file photo)   Shortly after St. Damien made his historic first step onto the shore of Kalaupapa on May 10, 1873, and assessed the situation, he informed his superior, Bishop Louis Maigret, that […]

The streets of New York now include one named ‘Damien’

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The paper wrapping of the Father Damien Way street sign at the corner of 33rd Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan falls away during the sign’s unveiling May 11. The minister-president of the Government of Flanders Geert Bourgeois and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, admire the new Father Damien Way street sign. […]