Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Good Friday’s Taize Prayer around the Cross returns to Newman

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By Jon James Special to the Herald After a three-year absence due to COVID-19, the contemplative Taize Prayer around the Cross service will be held again at the University of Hawaii Newman Center-Holy Spirit Parish on Good Friday evening, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. Taize Prayer around the Cross stems from a tradition adopted by […]

Catholic Charities promotes Tina Andrade to chief operating officer

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Catholic Charities Hawaii has promoted Tina Andrade to chief operating officer where she will oversee the organization’s day-to-day operations. Andrade will be second in command of the organization behind CEO and president Robert Van Tassell. Andrade joined Catholic Charities in 2003. In her previous position as vice president in mission integration, she helped implement the […]

Restoring the cup

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Diocese of Honolulu to bring back Communion under the form of the Precious Blood By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Holy Communion under the form of the cup is coming back to Hawaii. But the cup won’t runneth over or even perhaps be half full based on reactions so far to its restoration. The Diocese […]

Hutchison memoirs: ‘The book no one else could have written’

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“Yours Faithfully, Ambrose Hutchison: Recollections of a Lifetime at Kalaupapa,” edited by Anwei Skinsnes Law, published by Ka Ohana O Kalaupapa, 233 pages. Order at www.kalaupapaohana.org/new-book. Cost is $50 which includes shipping and handling. For more information, contact info.kalaupapa@gmail.com. By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald It would be difficult to invent such a character as […]

Air Force vet makes profession in the Secular Franciscan Order

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The Mother Marianne Cope Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order in Hawaii celebrated a rite of profession for candidate Lawrence Enomoto, at Holy Trinity Church, Kuliouou, on Feb. 18. The 89-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran made his profession after Mass by promising to live the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ all the days of […]

National Catholic Sisters Week: St. Francis Healthcare honors its sisters

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By Sister Davilyn Ah Chick, OSF Special to the Herald St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii celebrated National Catholic Sisters Week by honoring all of our Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities on March 8. Our sisters living at the Plaza in Kaneohe and in Kalaupapa came to join our sisters in Honolulu […]

Photo: Spirited conversation

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Deacon Jerry Tokars, right, of Kailua, Oahu, talks with Jesuit Father Phillip Chircop during the Diocese of Honolulu annual deacons’ retreat, Feb. 17-19, at St. Stephen Diocesan Center. Father Chircop led the retreat, the first in-person diaconate meeting since 2019. Seventy-six deacons and wives attended. (Photo courtesy of Deacon Keith Cabiles)  

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