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Catholic Charities settles into its new home
Friday, March 19, 2010 (1126 reads)


Outside it appears as a house of faith, a long, wide “A” frame, accompanied by a slender tower topped with a cross. Inside it’s a house of good works....
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Catholic Charities Hawaii: More than 30 programs
Friday, March 19, 2010 (925 reads)


Catholic Charities Hawaii serves more than 60,000 people in over 30 programs across the state under eight categories of service
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Catholic Charities Hawaii timeline: Decades of growth
Friday, March 19, 2010 (1042 reads)


1859 -- Catholic Women’s Aid Society, later called the Catholic Women’s Guild, helped immigrant plantation workers with food, clothing and medical aid. ...
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Cathedral renovation looking to 19th century for inspiration
Friday, March 19, 2010 (667 reads)


Plans and preparations are underway for an overhaul of the 167-year-old Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in downtown Honolulu. The cathedral claims the distinction of being the oldest ...
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State board gives go-ahead for Chaminade nursing program
Friday, March 19, 2010 (501 reads)


With the approval on March 4 of the Hawaii State Board of Nursing, Hawaii’s Catholic university now officially has a nursing program. This fall Chaminade University of ...
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OBITUARY: Dominican Sister Mary Bernardine Perez
Friday, March 19, 2010 (625 reads)


As quietly as she lived, Dominican Sister of the Holy Rosary Mary Bernardine Perez died on March 8 in serene surroundings in Waianae, just two days shy of her 72nd ...
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Engaged Encounter has new chaplain, other personnel changes
Friday, March 19, 2010 (564 reads)


Engaged Encounter has made some changes. Its new chaplain is Father Marvin Samiano. The new Oahu registration contact couple is Cliff and Irene Villareal. Any ...
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Bishop Silva to preside at April 11 Divine Mercy event
Friday, March 19, 2010 (476 reads)


Bishop Larry Silva will preside at a Divine Mercy Holy Hour and the Hour of Mercy Prayer and Mass in the afternoon of Divine Mercy Sunday, April 11, the Second ...
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Maryknoll creating scholarship to honor Sister Dolores Rosso
Friday, March 19, 2010 (463 reads)


Maryknoll School is establishing a scholarship to honor Maryknoll Sister Dolores Rosso who has served the school since 1949 for her entire professional career in ...
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Bishop blesses the holy oils at Chrism Mass
Friday, March 19, 2010 (834 reads)


The holy oils the Catholic Church uses to anoint, sanctify and heal were blessed and distributed at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa at the annual Chrism Mass on March ...
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Photo: He’s paid his dues
Friday, March 19, 2010 (408 reads)


Grand knight Jim Miltier and financial secretary Chuck Furr present Deacon Walter Yoshimitsu with an “honorary life membership” in the Knights of Columbus. Yoshimitsu, a member of ...
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Ask Mason and Teo: March 19, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010 (441 reads)


Hello Mason and Teo, My family and I receive and enjoy the Hawaii Catholic Herald and reading your column. A few weeks ago a childhood friend and I were having lunch ...
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Photo: Big problem, big check
Friday, March 19, 2010 (495 reads)


Bishop Larry Silva poses with a check symbolizing a grant of $100,000 from Bank of Hawaii is designated for the diocese’s work in the area of homelessness. The presentation was made in the ...
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Have a building named after you, or a tree, or a tile
Friday, March 19, 2010 (313 reads)


Catholic Charities Hawaii has the ideal campus. Now it needs to finish paying for it. Of its $28 million capital campaign, Catholic Charities needs to raise a final $10 ...
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Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: March 19, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010 (534 reads)


When does Lent end? a) before evening Mass on Holy Thursday; b) on Good Friday at sunset; c) at the Easter Vigil; d) on Easter Sunday morning ...
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Upcountry Maui gets ready for the big, annual Feast
Friday, March 19, 2010 (453 reads)


St. Joseph Feast, celebrated by St. Joseph Church and School in Makawao, Maui, is tradition dating back to the 1800s. This year the up-country Maui parish will ...
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Serra hosting golf, bowling for clergy
Friday, March 19, 2010 (448 reads)


The Serra Club of Honolulu is sponsoring a golf or bowling outing and dinner for priests and permanent deacons on April 7. Golf tee-off is 1 p.m. at Olomana Golf ...
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Diocesan Road Map to the future: March 19, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010 (580 reads)


As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, I’m reminded of how important family culture and ethnicity can be for all of us. It is evident in the food we prefer, holiday customs we ...
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Aloha, welcome to Malia Puka O Kalani
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (1898 reads)


Don’t expect to slip in and out at Mass at Malia Puka O Kalani Parish. If you’re a visitor you won’t go unnoticed at the small parish in Keaukaha on the Big Island. In ...
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Hawaii sees increase in those to be baptized at Easter
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (1890 reads)


The number of catechumens who will be baptized in Hawaii this Easter vigil is 219, up 26 from last year. While not a huge increase, it is the highest figure in a five-year ...
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Groundbreaking St. Louis principal ‘excited at possibilities’
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (1183 reads)


Patricia Hamamoto started off her first day as principal of St. Louis School on Feb. 22 with the early arrival — shortly after 6 a.m. — that’s typical of a hard-working ...
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Parishes in and out of tsunami zones go with the flow
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (776 reads)


While the large tsunami waves predicted to hit Hawaiian coastlines Feb. 27 turned out to be much smaller and left no damage, local Catholics took the threat seriously. ...
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Saddle crosses: Big Isle cowboy crafts symbols for fellow riders
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (1756 reads)


AHUALOA, Hawaii -- Attend any Big Island rodeo and you will see small leather crosses attached to the saddles of many of the riders. Each cross — a simple, durable profession of ...
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Two Hawaii-born missionary sisters in Chile reported fine
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (758 reads)


Two island-born sisters serving as missionaries in Chile survived the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that devastated the coastal city of Conception on Feb. 26 and are safe, ...
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OBITUARY: Christian Brother ‘Pat’ Rowland
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (856 reads)


Longtime Damien Memorial School teacher, Christian Brother Thomas Patrick Rowland, who also spent many years as a substance abuse counselor, died in ...
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Ask Mason and Teo: : March 5, 2010
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (585 reads)


Dear Mason & Teo, I am part of a Bible study group where the leader picks someone to pray. I don’t know how to pray aloud and I am afraid the leader may ...
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Photo: An answer for Mrs. Toguchi
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (688 reads)


Audrey Toguchi, whose cancer cure was the second miracle needed for St. Damien’s canonization, gets an answer to a question about the saint from a Maryknoll School fourth ...
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Enrichment Day offers 6 workshops
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (656 reads)


The Big Island’s West Hawaii Vicariate is offering six workshops on topics ranging from Scripture to domestic violence for its Enrichment Day, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., ...
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Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: March 5, 2010
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (637 reads)


1. Lent: On Friday, March 19 this year you won’t have to abstain from meat as you would a typical Friday of Lent. Why? a) It’s St. Patrick’s Day and bishops have given a special dispensation that day....
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Photo: Help for Haiti
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (1084 reads)


Iwie Tamashiro, Hawaii representative for Catholic Relief Services accepts a $5,200 check from Sacred Hearts Academy on behalf of the aid agency for the Haiti ...
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Photo: Signing up
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (536 reads)


Cynthia Taylor, pastoral associate at St. Michael Parish in Kailua-Kona, helps young fellow parishioner Luke Friels sign the Book of the Elect at the Big Island’s Rite of ...
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New church in Kona to include some of the old
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (634 reads)


When the new St. Michael Church is built in Kailua-Kona, it will contain elements of the 160-year old structure it is replacing — stained glass windows, lava rock, an 1853 ...
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OBITUARY: Jesuit Father Donald Merrifield
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (965 reads)


To a group of homeless folks living in Ala Moana Park, he was not someone with a PhD from MIT, or a former president of a large west coast university, or even a ...
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Diocesan Road Map to the future: March 5, 2010
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (582 reads)


Lent is a special time of year for Christians, an opportunity for a kind of spiritual checkup. Through practices such as fasting, abstinence from meat, additional ...
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‘Rachel’ retreat for women who have had an abortion
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (580 reads)


Rachel’s Vineyard, a psychological and spiritual healing ministry for women who have had an abortion, is offering a weekend retreat May 21-23, at a private Honolulu ...
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St. Ann Parish offers two Lenten spiritual opportunities
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (581 reads)


St. Ann Parish in Kaneohe is offering two special Lenten opportunities for its parishioners — and anyone else — who want to prepare their hearts and minds for ...
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Our Lady of Manaoag devotion to be celebrated in Waipahu
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (1999 reads)


The Feast of Our Lady of Manaoag, a 500-year-old devotion to the Blessed Mother from northern Philippines, will be celebrated with a Mass and fiesta on April 24 at St. ...
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Catholic Women’s Guild ending year celebrating history
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (551 reads)


As the Catholic Women Guild’s sesquicentennial anniversary year draws to a close, it seems appropriate to honor the memory of the Guild’s founder, Anna Louisa Gibbons ...
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Diocese organizing Filipino priests association
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (621 reads)


Father Peter Dumag, the diocesan director of vocations, is inviting all “priests of Filipino heritage” working in Hawaii to join the newly formed Filipino Priests ...
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Bishop encourages island Catholics to experience a Chrism Mass
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (860 reads)


Bishop Larry Silva is encouraging island Catholics to experience a rich and distinctive annual liturgical event next month, at which he blesses the sacred oils used in ...
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Bishop seeks to fill 6 spots on pastoral council
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (614 reads)


Bishop Larry Silva sent a letter to pastors last month seeking nominations to fill six vacancies on the 16-member Diocesan Pastoral Council, a group of bishop’s ...
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Single & ready to mingle?
Thursday, March 04, 2010 (506 reads)


St. Augustine Parish in Waikiki is starting a singles group. And if you’re over 25 and single, divorced or widowed they’re looking for you. The plan is for the group to meet ...
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