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His Holiness
Friday, April 29, 2005 (235 reads)


The laity, religious and clergy of the Diocese of Honolulu send you heartfelt congratulations on your election to the Papacy. Be assured of our constant prayers and support for you.
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Special offers for Hawaii Catholic Herald readers
Friday, April 29, 2005 (238 reads)


-- If you wish to receive two free Pope John Paul II memorial cards, send a self-addressed stamped “business-size” envelope to Papal Cards, Hawaii Catholic Herald, 1184 Bishop Street, Honolulu, HI 96813.
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EDITORIAL
Friday, April 29, 2005 (252 reads)


The world has been getting a crash course in Catholicism with the death of John Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI.
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OBITUARY
Friday, April 22, 2005 (232 reads)


Maryknoll Sister Loretta Marie Hoffman, who taught at Maryknoll High School in Honolulu three times from the 1940s to the 70s for a total of 11 years, died on April 2 at the Maryknoll Residential Care Facility, Maryknoll, N.Y. She was 90 years old.
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OBITUARY
Friday, April 22, 2005 (313 reads)


Maryknoll Father James A. Jackson, who served on the Big Island and Oahu for 45 of his 56 years as a priest, died March 16 at St. Teresa’s Residence in Ossining, N. Y. where he retired in 1997. He was 86.
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OBITUARY
Friday, April 22, 2005 (313 reads)


Maryknoll Father Francis Anthony Diffley, of Brooklyn, N.Y., a missioner to Hawaii and Japan for 37 years, died on March 27 at St. Teresa’s Residence in Ossining, N.Y., of a rare form of encephalitis. He was 81 and a priest for 54 years.
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Island Treasures celebration to honor 96 outstanding parish volunteers
Friday, April 22, 2005 (275 reads)


The Diocese of Honolulu will honor 96 volunteers, both individuals and couples, from parishes throughout Hawaii at the Island Treasures banquet celebration at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, April 29. More than 1,000 people are expected to attend the ninth annual event, which is sponsored by Catholic Charities Hawaii.
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Preacher to the pope to speak at Pearl City parish
Friday, April 22, 2005 (270 reads)


The Capuchin Franciscan priest known as the “preacher to the papal household" will speak in Hawaii on three days this month.
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Editorial
Friday, April 22, 2005 (224 reads)


The most traveled pope in history never traveled to one of the world’s most traveled destinations — Hawaii. Actually none of his 104 trips even came close. But that is more due to Hawaii’s location than any papal slight.
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HAWAII THEOLOGIAN
Friday, April 22, 2005 (236 reads)


Unpretentious. Open. Humble. That’s how Father Marc Alexander remembers Pope Benedict XVI from the Gregorian University in Rome where 10 years ago, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger he was an occasional guest speaker and Father Alexander was a doctoral student.
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OBITUARY
Friday, April 22, 2005 (246 reads)


Maryknoll Sister Jane Bruce, who served at Catholic Charities Hawaii from 1956 to 1978 and again from 1985 to 1990, died unexpectedly in the Residential Care of the Maryknoll Sisters, Maryknoll, N.Y., on April 2.
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OBITUARY
Friday, April 22, 2005 (232 reads)


Father Lawrence Simons a priest of the Diocese of Helena, Mont., who served in Hawaii in the 1970s, died on March 1 on the Big Island where he had retired. He was 81 and a priest for 57 years.
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OBITUARY
Friday, April 22, 2005 (288 reads)


Maui-born Father Robert da Ponte, a retired diocesan priest ordained 41 years ago, died March 24, in San Diego, Calif., where he had lived for several years. He was 70.
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LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Friday, April 22, 2005 (371 reads)


Young Ladies Institute to celebrate 50th anniversary
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Easter exultation
Friday, April 22, 2005 (240 reads)


Father Gary Colton, the pastor at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, had one of the most fulfilling Easters of his priesthood last month. It was a personal joy, a family triumph.
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St. Joseph School’s Beverly Sandobal ‘principal of the year’ for western U.S.
Friday, April 22, 2005 (393 reads)


On March 24, the students, faculty and staff of St. Joseph School in Waipahu took time off from morning recess to gather on the blacktop courtyard to honor their principal, Beverly Sandobal, with a surprise assembly.
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HONOLULU DIOCESE
Friday, April 22, 2005 (231 reads)


“He is a brilliant man. … certainly respected,” said diocesan administrator Father Thomas Gross of the newly elected Holy Father. “He is bringing to the office of pope a tremendous amount of experience.”
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The diocese mourns and reflects
Friday, April 08, 2005 (215 reads)


Saturday, April 2, dawned in Hawaii with all signs pointing to the pope’s passing as being imminent.
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Editor’s note
Friday, April 08, 2005 (215 reads)


Because of the death of Pope John Paul II, the Hawaii Catholic Herald is dropping all its regular stories, columns and features for this issue to publish an edition exclusively on the pope’s life and death.
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Osage ancestor talks with bishop at parish event honoring Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
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Carla Powell, an Osage Indian and lifelong parishioner of Immaculate Conception Church in Pawhuska, Okla., talks with Bishop Edward J. Slattery of Tulsa, Okla., during a special luncheon at the church Aug. 10. The bishop and Powell, an Osage Indian, were on hand for the dedication of a new parish shrine dedicated to Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. Following the dedication parishioners gathered for a traditional Osage meal. The church, founded in 1890 in Indian territory, has had a longtime connection to the Osage tribe.

    

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