Bishop Larry Silva and Msgr. Terrence Watanabe will flip the switch at 1 p.m. Jan. 5 at St. Theresa Church in Kihei to launch a new Catholic radio station on Maui — KCIK AM 740, also known as Immaculate Heart Radio. Immaculate Heart Radio is a non-profit organization of about 30 non-commercial listener-supported radio stations […]
Bishop invites church leaders to prayer for Christian unity
Bishop Larry Silva’s office sent an invitation to 96 Christian church leaders in Hawaii to join him in a Taize Prayer around the Cross 7 p.m., Jan. 24, at the University of Hawaii’s Newman Center to commemorate the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Jan. 18-25. The bishop is proposing the Taize Prayer, named […]
Every job a gift: Sharon Chiarucci, who for years has worked to enhance parish life in Hawaii, will retire at the end of this year
Sharon Chiarucci in the chapel at St. Stephen Diocesan Center on Nov. 25. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) When it comes to Hawaii parishes, Sharon Chiarucci has seen it all. She is one of the few people who have actually been in every one of the nearly 100 Catholic churches in the state (except […]
13 deacon candidates to receive ministry of reader
The 13 members of the diocese’s seventh permanent deacon class will close their fourth year of formation by receiving the ministry of reader, or lector, Dec. 15 in the main chapel at St. Stephen Diocesan Center. Bishop Larry Silva will confer the ministry, one of the major steps to ordination, which is now only a […]
Bishop Silva is bringing back The Bishop’s Circle appeal
Bishop Larry Silva this month is bringing back The Bishop’s Circle, a targeted fundraising appeal started by Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario and put on hold in 2009 when the diocese launched the its With Grateful Hearts capital campaign. The bishop will send an invitation letter to about 3,000 Catholics over the next few weeks, mostly […]
In a special legislative session that spurs thousands to protest, same-sex marriage becomes law
Following a special session of the Hawaii state Legislature that for two weeks turned the state Capitol into a high-spirited exhibition of populous democracy, Gov. Neil Abercrombie on Nov. 13 signed the bill causing all the commotion and made Hawaii the 15th state to legalize same-sex marriage. In reaction to the bill’s passage, Hawaii Bishop […]
Day-long end of Year of Faith celebration to mix sacred and fun
The Catholic Cultural Celebration observing the end of the Year of Faith on Oahu Nov. 23 at Star of the Sea Church in Waialae-Kahala will open with a prayer service and close with a Mass, with plenty of music and fellowship, food and fun in between. Bishop Larry Silva will begin the event at 9 […]
Move to pass same-sex marriage bill provokes thousands to fight back
The special state legislative session, called by Gov. Neil Abercrombie on Oct. 28 to add Hawaii to the list of 14 Mainland states that have legalized same-sex marriage, awakened a giant of populist opposition. Organized mostly by churches but moved by their own personal convictions, thousands of Hawaii citizens opposing same-sex marriage have showed up […]
Waialua’s Benedictine priests incardinated into the diocese
Father Michael Sawyer and Father David Barfknecht of the Benedictine Monastery in Waialua have been incardinated into the Diocese of Honolulu, Bishop Larry Silva announced in the official notices in this issue of the Hawaii Catholic Herald (See page 2). This change in association follows the monastery’s split last year from the Italy-based Olivetan Benedictine […]
Hawaii-born Michael Jucutan to be ordained in Guam
The newly ordained deacon Michael Jucutan of Hawaii stands second from left at a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Anthony Sablan Apuron of Agana, Guam, Feb. 17 in the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica in Agana. (Photo courtesy of Tony C. Diaz | U Matuna Si Yu’is, Guam’s archdiocesan newspaper) Michael Vincent Jucutan, a 1995 Pearl […]
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