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Kalaupapa water crisis is a challenge, but is ‘in God’s plan’

09/23/2026 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Problems with a decades-old pump system have forced the evacuation of the remote peninsula By Celia K. Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald People who live and work in Kalaupapa, Molokai, are accustomed to the challenges posed by life on the remote peninsula. Food, mail, vehicles and other supplies arrive by boat, tiny airplane or on foot […]

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Department of Health, evacuation, Father Pat Killilea, Kalaupapa, Molokai, National Park Service, Sister Alicia Damien Lau, Sister Barbara Jean Wajda, water system

Honor St. Francis of Assisi through Eucharistic procession

09/23/2026 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Hawaii Catholic Herald In celebration of the Jubilee Year of St. Francis of Assisi, Catholics from across the Diocese of Honolulu will participate in a Eucharistic procession Oct. 3 from Ala Moana to the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in the Kalihi-Palama neighborhood of Honolulu. “People will be joining from different parishes and we invited all […]

Filed Under: Features, Local News Tagged With: 800th anniversary, Ala Moana, Co-Cathedral of St. Thersa, Eucharistic procession, Honolulu, Jubilee Year, plenary indulgence, Sister Alicia Damien Lau, Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, St. Francis of Assisi, Sts. Peter and Paul Church

Photo: Hawaii seminarian and sister honored

11/17/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Hawaii diocesan seminarian William “Pila” Tulua and Sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities Alicia Damien Lau each received the Compassionate of Merit – Meritorious Recognition Award from the Grand Priory of America, a Jurisdiction of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem Oct. 28 at the Episcopal Cathedral of Saint […]

Filed Under: Local News, Photo Tagged With: Pila Tulua, Sister Alicia Damien Lau

The streets of New York now include one named ‘Damien’

05/21/2015 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

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. […]

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Kalaupapa, Sister Alicia Damien Lau, slider1, St. Damien

Red Mass Homily | Sister Alicia Damien Lau, OSF: St. Marianne brought gift of ‘pono,’ righteousness, to the afflicted

02/01/2013 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Here is the prepared text of the talk delivered by Sister Alicia Damien Lau, a Sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, at the Diocese of Honolulu’s Red Mass, Jan. 17, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu. Aloha! In its profoundest spiritual sense, “to come together face to face” (alo) […]

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Religious, Sister Alicia Damien Lau

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