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’
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. […]
Bishop to lead spiritual pilgrimages this year to destinations far and near
Bishop Larry Silva will be the spiritual director on pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to Kalaupapa, Molokai, this year. The bishop is scheduled to make an 11-day trip with Hawaii pilgrims to the Holy Land, April 27 to May 7. The tour was designed for the Diocese of Honolulu by Faith Journeys, an Arizona-based […]
Remembrance | Sister Rosanne LaManche, OSF: She left her heart in Kalaupapa
Sister Rosanne LaManche served as a Franciscan nun for more than 75 years and a nurse for 53, but she needed only an instant to name the most cherished days of her long career. “I’m most grateful for my time at Kalaupapa,” she said during an interview 12 years ago at her motherhouse in Syracuse, […]
Kalaupapa exhibit to display historic and contemporary photos
“A Reflection of Kalaupapa: Past, Present and Future,” a photo exhibit sponsored by Ka Ohana O Kalaupapa, will open with an 11:30 a.m. blessing on Aug. 13 at historic Paschoal Hall in Kalaupapa. Hosted by Kalaupapa National Historical Park, the exhibit will open through Sept. 12 on days to be determined. It is free. The […]
Mary Adamski: Saint potential in blue denim
Visions of saints will be before us this weekend as the Catholic Church bestows that title on two former popes. We’ll envision them in white robes because that’s how we saw them on the television screen and other media in recent history, Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005, and Pope John XXIII, who […]
Kalaupapa National Park has new superintendent
Kalaupapa National Historical Park, which encompasses the isolated Molokai peninsula where Hawaii’s two saints lived, served and died, has a new superintendent. National Park Service has named Erika Stein to replace former Kalaupapa superintendent Steve Prokop who left his five-year Hawaii assignment in April to be superintendent of Redwood National and State Parks in California. […]
Moon over Molokai: My life in Kalaupapa
It was 5:15 a.m. approximately as I stepped out onto the front porch, then onto the lawn facing those great green pali to the south. To the west over Maunaloa hung the full silvery moon, lighting up the landscape and the pali and shimmering on the harbor waters. It was time to prepare for the […]
Cardinal Timothy Dolan in Kalaupapa: ‘This has been a lifetime dream’
Cardinal Timothy Dolan spoke with the Hawaii Catholic Herald briefly after the luau about the celebration for St. Marianne. Here are excerpts from that conversation. On the invitation to Molokai When Bishop Silva offered his gracious invitation, it wasn’t so much to a place, as to people, namely a person who’s had a towering influence […]
Hawaii celebrates St. Marianne back at her Kalaupapa home
The final major event for the canonization of Hawaii’s new saint is attended by the apostolic nuncio, the president of the U.S. bishops conference, the bishop of Syracuse and hundreds more Hawaii held its final major event celebrating the canonization of St. Marianne Cope in the same place she practiced her inexhaustible charity, mostly unseen, […]
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