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Current issue: February 3, 2012

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Current Archive

Bishop Larry Silva: Letter to the faithful
Friday, February 03, 2012 (27 reads)

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: I write to you concerning an alarming and serious matter that negatively impacts the Church in the United States directly, and that strikes ...

Marching for life in the spirit of aloha
Friday, February 03, 2012 (22 reads)

“Aloha: Joyfully Sharing Life” was the theme that inspired hundreds of signs and a string of speeches and performances at this year’s March for Life Jan. 22 on the ...

Red Mass speaker: Religious liberty poses ‘delicate balance’
Friday, February 03, 2012 (21 reads)

It’s a question as old as Jesus, the Red Mass speaker said: Where do you draw the line that separates the church and a sometimes antagonistic state? Jesus answered it in ...

Feast day begins Mother Marianne’s canonization year
Friday, February 03, 2012 (21 reads)

What rightfully could be called the “Year of St. Marianne of Molokai” began on the evening of her 174th birthday, Jan. 23, with a joyful Mass in a packed Cathedral of Our ...

Christopher West explores John Paul II’s Theology of the Body
Friday, February 03, 2012 (53 reads)

Love. Sex. Relationships. Pope John Paul II? On Jan. 28, Christopher West linked these topics together for an attentive audience of young adults gathered at Mamiya Theatre at Saint Louis School....

Parish in a tent still reaches out to the homeless
Friday, February 03, 2012 (33 reads)

KAILUA-KONA — Displaced to worship under a tent, they still reach out to the homeless. Needing funds for their own basic operations, they’ve still shared $6,000 ...

Sisters mark 124 years of Franciscan footsteps in Kalaupapa
Friday, February 03, 2012 (14 reads)

The 174th birthday of Blessed Marianne Cope — soon to be the second saint who cared for and worked with leprosy patients at Kalaupapa — was celebrated Jan. 21 with a ...

St. Francis breaks ground for Ewa bi-generational care center
Friday, February 03, 2012 (11 reads)

When it opens this fall, the new St. Francis Intergenerational Center in Ewa Villages will address two important needs of West Oahu residents in the “sandwich ...

Diocese hires coordinator for young adult ministries
Friday, February 03, 2012 (19 reads)

The diocesan Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry has recently expanded with two new staff members hired to serve alongside director Lisa Gomes. Makana Aiona began ...

Sister Roselani Enomoto, Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Friday, February 03, 2012 (25 reads)

My all-time favorite passage from Scripture is Psalm 139. It’s taking me a lifetime to unpack its fullness through prayer and contemplation; through active witness to all of ...

Photo: That we all may be one
Friday, February 03, 2012 (17 reads)

Bishop Larry Silva, far right, sits with leaders from other local Christian churches during the Ecumenical Worship Service in observance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The service was held on Jan. 24 at ...

Photo: Father Fisher papal audience
Friday, February 03, 2012 (27 reads)

Father Clarence Fisher, retired pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Wahiawa, is greeted by Pope Benedict XVI Dec. 21 in the Pope Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican. Father Fisher was in Rome ...

Bishop appoints new director of vocations
Friday, February 03, 2012 (25 reads)

Bishop Larry Silva has named Father Pascual Abaya as the new diocesan Director of Vocations beginning July 1. Father Abaya is pastor of Our Lady of ...

Chaminade program explores teaching of Islam, Judaism
Friday, February 03, 2012 (17 reads)

Chaminade University’s Rev. Fujitani-Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Interfaith Program is offering a unique half-day event on Feb. 12 exploring the teachings of Islam and ...

Marianists commit $18 million to Saint Louis, Chaminade
Friday, February 03, 2012 (14 reads)

The Society of Mary, or Marianists, who founded Saint Louis School and Chaminade University of Hawaii, continue to be generous benefactors of the schools with a more ...

Affordable air service has Kalaupapa beaming
Friday, February 03, 2012 (30 reads)

For the first time in years, Kalaupapa residents say they feel free. A new air service offers regular flights to the isolated peninsula for a fraction of the cost of what ...

Donuts with Bishop? Uh ... waffles? Muffins?
Friday, February 03, 2012 (17 reads)

What do a popular Jewish bread product and the title of the head of a Catholic diocese have in common? They both start with the letter “B.” ...

Red Mass homily: Father John A. Coleman, SJ
Friday, January 20, 2012 (199 reads)

All of today’s readings treat, in one way or another, the theme of religious liberty. I want to suggest that religious liberty in America represents a very delicate balance indeed ...

Bl. Marianne miracle recipient not a Catholic, but a believer
Friday, January 20, 2012 (386 reads)

“I didn’t know a thing about Mother Marianne before somebody told me who she was and what she did and why we were praying.” Sharon Smith, the woman whose unexpected recovery from ...

Parishioner leaves a quarter million to Hawaii priests, religious
Friday, January 20, 2012 (157 reads)

A quiet, unassuming parishioner of St. Augustine Church in Waikiki who died in 2010 has given hundreds of priests, brothers and sisters in Hawaii each a sizable monetary ...

Hawaii’s oldest, last European Sacred Hearts sister, dies at 104
Friday, January 20, 2012 (137 reads)

Sacred Hearts Sister Maria Seraphina Maziliauskaite, who arrived in Hawaii in 1937, the last of her order to come from Europe, died on Dec. 29 at age 104 at her convent in ...

View From the Pew: Public prayer, comfortable and not
Friday, January 20, 2012 (128 reads)

When prayer is part of their life, people today tend to seek a comfortable venue to do it. I’m sure there are still those who consider kneeling at length on a stone floor in a ...

Kara Nelson: YOUNG VOICE -- Rays of sunshine
Friday, January 20, 2012 (103 reads)

I have always been an optimist. I hope for the best but, as they say, I also prepare for the worst, since life doesn’t always work out the way I want it to. Optimism means looking ...

Father David Travers to retire as pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul
Friday, January 20, 2012 (153 reads)

After 16 years as pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Honolulu, Jesuit Father David Travers will retire at the end of the month. He said that, at age 77, he’s a few years past ...

39th annual March for Life set for Jan. 22 at state capitol
Friday, January 20, 2012 (80 reads)

Vicar general Father Gary Secor will represent the Diocese of Honolulu at the 39th annual March For Life Hawaii rally, 1-4 p.m., Jan. 22., at the State Capitol. The event, which every year ...

Ordination a live event for 164 online viewers
Friday, January 20, 2012 (116 reads)

On Dec. 30, more than 400 people watched Bishop Larry Silva ordain Anthony Rapozo as the diocese’s newest priest. However, about a quarter of those “watching” the ordination ...

Workshop will explore aging as ‘soul-adventure’
Friday, January 20, 2012 (69 reads)

Thriving in the “second half of life” will be one of the main topics of discussion at the next Mackey Marianist lecture and workshop to be presented in March by Dr. Samuel ...

Photos: Priests on retreat
Friday, January 20, 2012 (100 reads)

Local priests left behind parish duties and other responsibilities to gather at St. Stephen Diocesan Center, Jan. 8-13, for some rest and reflection time. “The Conversations of Jesus” was the theme ...

Veriditas: Sister Clemence Marie, Sister of St. Paul of Chartres
Friday, January 20, 2012 (106 reads)

We might have a number of doctorates and diplomas, but when it comes to mission work, we need to humbly bow and acknowledge the work of the Spirit. We need to start ...

Isle Sacred Hearts priest vocation director of new province
Friday, January 20, 2012 (99 reads)

Next month will see the first exchange of clergy between the former East coast and Hawaii provinces of the Sacred Hearts Congregation of Fathers and Brothers since they merged last November as the ...

Photos: Santo Nino celebration
Friday, January 20, 2012 (85 reads)

The Visayan Catholic community gathered at St. Anthony Church in Kalihi on Jan. 15 for a festival of prayer, dinner and dancing in honor of the Feast of Santo Nino, a ...

Molokai parishes exit Maui vicariate for central Oahu
Friday, January 20, 2012 (102 reads)

Bishop Larry Silva transferred Molokai’s two parishes from the Maui vicariate to the central Oahu vicariate starting Jan. 1. The change was made at the request of Sacred Hearts Father Clyde ...

Educational alliance offering free SAT/ACT prep software
Friday, January 20, 2012 (59 reads)

eKnowledge, along with 20 NFL and MLB athletes, is donating $200 SAT and ACT PowerPrep Programs to military families. Now in its sixth year, the eKnowledge Sponsorship Alliance has donated ...

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