Less than two months after he recovered from Ebola, Dr. Kent Brantly testified at a joint Senate hearing about the deadly virus in West Africa. “I came to understand first-hand what my own patients had suffered,” Brantly said, describing his reaction to becoming ill July 23. “I was isolated from my family and I was […]
‘Where saints have walked’: Mass of Thanksgiving celebrates the cathedral’s new basilica status
Bishop Larry Silva celebrates the Oct. 11 thanksgiving Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. Behind him are the bell and umbrella, traditional symbols of a basilica, crafted especially for the downtown Honolulu church. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) “Have you ever looked at the ceiling of this magnificent cathedral,” […]
Letter to the Herald: Recalling a saint’s self-sacrifice
Bravo Darlene Dela Cruz for your excellent report on the church’s sesquicentennial celebration of Father Damien de Veuster’s arrival Ein Honolulu on March 19, 1864. As the perfect sacrifice of Christ, holy Mass, we know, is the sacramental presence of the Nazarene’s sacrifice of the Cross. In this same connection, what John Bannister Tabb celebrates […]
Damien Inspireert* | 150 YEARS: Indonesia: beyond margins
It was a heart-wrenching moment for Damien de Veuster as he said farewell to his family and passed for the last time through the familiar walls surrounding his home village of Tremelo, Belgium. Crossing the fields where cattle grazed and grain grew, the muscles in his arm must have twitched knowing he was leaving behind […]
