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Pope to presidents: Only God can bring peace to Holy Land
Israeli President Shimon Peres, Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attend an invocation for peace in the Vatican Gardens June 8. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) VATICAN CITY Pope Francis...
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Voter registration effort reports mixed results
A Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa parishioner fills out a voter registration card on June 22. (HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz) Very early feedback regarding the diocese’s in-Mass voter registration effort...
View ArticlePope Francis | To new archbishops: Stay focused on following Jesus
Pope Francis raises the Book of the Gospels as he celebrates a Mass marking the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican June 29. The pope presented the pallium to 24...
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SIster Aurelia Sanchez, OP | 1942-2014: Dominican Sister, a fragrant rose,...
Sister Aurelia Sanchez, whose life was like the roses she cultivated, was the director of Rosary Preschool in Waipio Gentry and a member of the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of the...
View ArticleBishop ‘disappointed’ in passage of new statute of limitations bill
Bishop Larry Silva expressed disappointment at the passing of a law that gives victims of child sexual abuse until April 24, 2016, to file civil lawsuits for cases where the statute of limitations had...
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Msgr. Alan Nagai | 1933-2014: Isle priest, respected veteran of parish,...
Msgr. Alan A. Nagai, an island priest for 56 years who served in 10 parishes and several high diocesan positions, died June 18 at Straub Medical Center in Honolulu after a brief illness. He was 81. He...
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The saga of Our Lady of Peace
The original 500-year old statue of Our Lady of Peace enshrined in the Sacred Hearts Congregation’s convent chapel in Paris. The story of how a 500-year-old wedding present came to determine the name...
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DON CHU | 1933-2014: a prominent leader in Marriage Encounter, family ministry
Don Chu, who with his wife June was a prominent leader in the Catholic Marriage Encounter movement and headed the diocesan family life ministry office in the 1980s, died July 10 at Kahala Nui’s...
View ArticleSister Miriam Dionise Cabacungan, Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann...
Providence will provide Our first patient in our newly opened hospice program in Nuuanu was an elderly Hawaiian-Japanese lady. She was dying of cancer and very weak. It was hard to even sit her up in a...
View ArticlePope Francis to sex abuse survivors: ‘And I ask for the grace to weep’
Pope Francis kisses a child during his June 25 general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters) VATICAN CITY Here is the Vatican’s English translation of...
View ArticleIraqi patriarch: Situation perhaps ‘darkest and most difficult period’
A Christian woman who fled from the violence in Mosul, Iraq, holds her daughter as her baby sleeps June 27 at a shelter in Irbil, Iraq. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad said the city...
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St. Marianne: Arrival from Syracuse, a second and final time
Honolulu again will give an aloha welcome to Hawaii’s beloved saint who is returning for permanent rest Mother Marianne Cope in a wheelchair poses for a photo with some of the women and Franciscan...
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It takes a (kupuna) village: St. Francis Healthcare responds to changing needs
An artist’s rendering of the future independent living complex for seniors at the Liliha Kupuna Village, a new venture of the St. Francis Healthcare System. (image courtesy of Gregg Maedo + Associates,...
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Hawaii Catholic school enrollment continues to drop hundreds a year
Hawaii Catholic schools continue to lose several hundred students a year, a trend that has been consistent for the past decade. It is the equivalent of one grade school closing every 12 months....
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Chaplain of Korean Catholic community eager to see Pope Francis in home diocese
Father Jong Ki Kim, chaplain, Korean Catholic Community of Hawaii Father Jong Ki Kim is excited that Pope Francis’ first major trip to Asia will be to his home diocese of Daejeon, South Korea, and that...
View ArticleLeis, songs, kisses welcome back St. Marianne to Isles
An employee at the United Airlines cargo facility outside the Honolulu International Airport kisses the casket containing the remains of St. Marianne Cope, which arrived in Honolulu from Syracuse,...
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Back to school | Grading the‘System,’ an interview with the superintendent
On a scale from A to F, Michael Rockers measures the success of Hawaii Catholic schools’ 3-year-old strategic plan SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT CARD: Here is how Michael Rockers graded the progress of...
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A church history: Cathedral becomes a basilica
Compiled from the writing of Father Louis H. Yim and Sacred Hearts Father Robert Schoofs July 7, 1827: Arrival of first Catholic missionaries to Hawaii. July 14, 1827: First recorded Mass on Hawaiian...
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Vatican honors Honolulu cathedral with status of ‘minor basilica’
The Vatican has given Honolulu’s Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace the honorary title of “minor basilica” in recognition of its historic and spiritual significance. The Congregation for Divine Worship and...
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With Grateful Hearts Campaign collects more than $33 million
The Hawaii Catholic Community Foundation, which manages the money collected through the Diocese of Honolulu’s With Grateful Hearts capital campaign, reported that, as of June 30, it has received more...
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