Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Collection helps cover retirement for aging sisters, brothers, priests

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Last December, Hawaii Catholics gave $87,086.97 to the national collection for retired religious. This year, three Hawaii religious orders benefited from these funds. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet received $6,410.21, the Carmelite Sisters received $9,177.25 and the Benedictines in Waialua got $2,545.87. Also, congregations who serve in Hawaii but whose communities are based […]

Legacy of a saint: 130 years of the Sisters of St. Francis in Hawaii

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One hundred thirty years ago, in 1883, St. Marianne Cope arrived with six sisters from Syracuse, N.Y., to the shores of the Sandwich Islands responding to a call to care for the kingdom’s poor abandoned natives. Since then, and without interruption, hundreds of Sisters of St. Francis have followed in the saint’s footsteps to serve […]

Sisters of St. Francis in Hawaii

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The Sisters of St. Francis who came to the Islands The first seven to arrive in 1883 Mother Marianne Cope Sister M Bonaventure Caraher Sister Crescentia Eilers Sister Ludovica Gibbons Sister M Rosalia McLaughlin Sister Renata Nash Sister Mary Antonella Murphy   Sister Leopoldina Burns, 1885 Sister Carolina Hoffmann, 1885 Sister Martha Kaiser, 1885 Sister […]

Aloha! Namaste! Visitors embody the Hawaii-India-Damien link

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Seven Indian Sacred Hearts priests visit St. Damien’s grave in Kalawao, Molokai, last month with their congregation’s U.S. provincial Father Jonathan Hurrell, far right. (Photo courtesy off the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts) Traveling over 7,400 miles, nearly the same distance that St. Damien de Veuster crossed on his journey from Belgium to Hawaii, seven […]

Waialua’s Benedictine priests incardinated into the diocese

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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’s new religious and clergy hail from the Philippines, India, Taiwan, New Jersey

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Here are some of the more recent arrivals of religious and clergy to Hawaii’s shores. Marianist Brother Mark Motz Campus minister, Chaminade Brother Motz is from West Chester, Ohio. He has an older brother and a younger sister. He graduated from the University of Dayton in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies. In […]

Viriditas: Sister Lourdes Fernandez, Maryknoll Sisters

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The energy of the grace of God Mission is adventure. When the U.S. bishops, through the LCWR (Leadership Council of Women Religious) invited religious of different congregations to volunteer to go to Albania in the 1990s, I said, “Yes.” I had the openness and the enthusiasm to go. I had never been to Europe or […]

Hawaii’s Carmelites celebrate 40 years of ministry in the Islands

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“To understand what contemplatives do and how their lives benefit us, you must recall what everyone knows about trees. Yes, trees. … Forests are essential for our physical survival because they perform such important functions as drawing water from the clouds and ‘breathing’ for the entire population of human beings and animals — trading their […]