In anticipation of the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the introduction of Christianity to the Philippines in 2021, Bishop Larry Silva is encouraging Hawaii parishes hosting the Filipino Advent traditions Misa de Gallo and Simbang Gabi this year to follow homily themes based on the “Nine-Year Spiritual Journey of New Evangelization” implemented by the […]
Ruminations of an international priest
Hawaii has now become a chapter in my personal and priestly life. It has been a wonderful five years singing the Lord’s song in a foreign land. By Father Ramon Danilo (Danny) R. Laeda Special to the Hawaii Catholic Herald On June 30, I ended my almost five years of priestly ministry in the Diocese […]
Vatican declares first step toward sainthood for Filipino boy, 17
By Catholic News Service MANILA, Philippines — A Filipino teenager who died could be on his way to sainthood after the Vatican declared him a Servant of God, the first step in the process toward sainthood. The Congregation for Saints’ Causes gave the Diocese of Cubao, Philippines, the green light to look into the life […]
Duterte’s drug war called ‘illegal, immoral and anti-poor’
By Paul Jeffrey Catholic News Service KALOOKAN, Philippines — A Catholic bishop in the Philippines said his government’s controversial war on drugs is really a war against the country’s poor. “There is no war against illegal drugs, because the supply is not being stopped. If they are really after illegal drugs, they would go after […]
Manigong Bagong Taon (‘Happy New Year’ in Tagalog)
Dominican Sisters of the Philippines, former missionaries to Hawaii, send their greetings By Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Perhaps you were taught by one of them in school, or catechized by another, or received help in hard times from another through a parish social ministry program. The Dominican Sisters of the Most […]
U.S. returns church bells to Philippines after more than 100 years
By Catholic News Service MANILA, Philippines — After more than a century, the United States government has returned three church bells swiped by American forces as war booty from the central Philippine town of Balangiga. Ucanews.com reported that, after years of repeated demands for their return, the bells were brought home aboard a U.S. military […]
Photo: Advocate for a potential saint
Archbishop emeritus of Ernesto A. Salgado of Nueva Segovia, Philippines, preaches at a Mass in the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu Sept. 8. He was there to promote the sainthood cause for Bishop Alfredo F. Verzosa, the first Catholic bishop from the country’s northern Ilocos region where many of Hawaii’s Philippine immigrants have roots. […]
Archbishop coming to promote the canonization of Ilocano bishop
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald A Philippines bishop will be in Hawaii next month to celebrate a Mass to promote the cause of sainthood for Bishop Alfredo F. Verzosa, the first Catholic bishop to hail from the country’s northern Ilocos region where many of Hawaii’s Philippine immigrants have roots. Archbishop emeritus of Ernesto A. […]
Cardinal Tagle laments deaths of innocent people in Philippines
By Catholic News Service MANILA, Philippines — A teary-eyed Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila lamented the deaths of innocent people killed since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office. Addressing 8,000 participants July 22 during the last day of the Fifth Philippine Conference on New Evangelization, Cardinal Tagle asked if people were happy with […]
Cardinal urges bell tolling to call attention to murders
By Catholic News Service MANILA, Philippines — Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle called for church bells in the archdiocese to toll at 8 p.m. each day to protest the continuing spate of killings in the country. He said the tolling of the bells will “haunt the perpetrators of violence and killing to remember their victims, never […]