By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald The Diocese of Honolulu is asking parishes to take up an emergency second collection for Tonga on the weekend of Feb. 26 and 27. An underwater volcanic eruption that occurred close offshore from the island nation on Jan. 15 caused damaging tsunamis and rained down ash and other volcanic […]
Hawaii welcomes Tonga’s first, church’s youngest cardinal
Hawaii welcomed the world’s youngest cardinal and the first from the small South Pacific nation of Tonga, selected by Pope Francis in one of his nods to the church’s “peripheries,” at a Mass of thanksgiving Jan. 16 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu.
Tongan cardinal-designate called a ‘simple, humble’ man
Above, Father Mafi on the far right of a photo of Father Johnathan Hurrell’s extended family visiting from New Zealand and Tonga for this ordination in St. Patrick Church in Kaimuki in 2005. Right, Bishop Soane Mafi during a pastoral visit to Hawaii’s Tongan Catholic Communities in 2011. (HCH file photos) When Tonga’s future cardinal […]
