Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Viriditas: Father Francisco Nicomedes S. Sanchez, diocesan priest

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Physical and spiritual maintenance I am one of three brother priests who were ordained in the Diocese of Butuan, Philippines, in 1994. One of my companions is working in the university, and the other is working as a chaplain in the bishop’s residence. I was assigned in a city parish as priest and chaplain. I […]

It takes a (kupuna) village: St. Francis Healthcare responds to changing needs

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An artist’s rendering of the future independent living complex for seniors at the Liliha Kupuna Village, a new venture of the St. Francis Healthcare System. (image courtesy of Gregg Maedo + Associates, Inc.)   The Islands’ only Catholic healthcare system has undergone many changes in the last several years, and this summer it continues to […]

St. Marianne: Arrival from Syracuse, a second and final time

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Honolulu again will give an aloha welcome to Hawaii’s beloved saint who is returning for permanent rest St. Marianne Cope’s remains will return to Hawaii to be enshrined in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace nearly a decade after they were exhumed in Kalaupapa to rest at her motherhouse in Syracuse. All that is […]

Iraqi patriarch: Situation perhaps ‘darkest and most difficult period’

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A Christian woman who fled from the violence in Mosul, Iraq, holds her daughter as her baby sleeps June 27 at a shelter in Irbil, Iraq. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad said the city of Mosul “is almost empty of Christians.” (CNS photo/Ahmed Jadallah, Reuters)   AMMAN, Jordan The patriarch of the Chaldean […]

Pope Francis to sex abuse survivors: ‘And I ask for the grace to weep’

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Pope Francis kisses a child during his June 25 general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters)   VATICAN CITY Here is the Vatican’s English translation of the homily Pope Francis gave in Spanish July 7 during a Mass with victims of clerical sexual abuse: The scene where Peter sees […]

Viriditas: Sister Miriam Dionise Cabacungan, Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities

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Providence will provide Our first patient in our newly opened hospice program in Nuuanu was an elderly Hawaiian-Japanese lady. She was dying of cancer and very weak. It was hard to even sit her up in a chair. One day, as I was trying to figure out how to help her, I bent over, put […]

The saga of Our Lady of Peace

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The story of how a 500-year-old wedding present came to determine the name of the Honolulu cathedral July 9 is the feast of Our Lady of Peace, the patroness of the Diocese of Honolulu after whom the Hawaii cathedral is named. Our cathedral in downtown Honolulu is named after a little statue of the Blessed […]

Photos: Solemn procession

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Dozens of faithful trekked from the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa to the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace June 22 for the annual Eucharistic procession commemorating the feast of Corpus Christi. Bishop Larry Silva, in the above photo with Deacon Keith Galang, led the procession, taking turns with other clergy holding the Eucharist encased in […]