Nichelle Soriano Torno - Mother and children's book author with Ascension Press
Nichelle Soriano Torno uses her motherly heart to create a children's book about Jesus' genealogy. "A place for Me in God's Family Tree," reflects the famous "Bible in a year" timeline with illustrations from Torno's cousin, Jordan Vicente Yango. Ascension Press has published the book and will be releasing it July 1st.
24 Apr 2024
Music and Spirituality with Nolet Quiason Part 2
Nolet Quiason describes his life as an "Indiana Jones" movie. From the Philippines to Kuwait to finally Hawaii, God has guided his journey away from world events. Today he shares his musical talents with his parish through music he's composed along with his love for The Beatles through Beat-lele, a band that plays Beatle covers with ukuleles.
10 Apr 2024
Music and Spirituality with Nolet Quiason Part 1
Nolet Quiason describes his life as an "Indiana Jones" movie. From the Philippines to Kuwait to finally Hawaii, God has guided his journey away from world events. Today he shares his musical talents with his parish through music he's composed along with his love for The Beatles through Beat-lele, a band that plays Beatle covers with ukuleles.
17 May 2023
Kalaupapa’s priest: Father Patrick Killilea
Father Patrick Killilea, a priest of the same order as St. Damien of Molokai, talks with the Hawaii Catholic Herald about what it's like living in Kalaupapa, the remote peninsula on a small Hawaiian island where people suffering from Hansen's disease (formerly known as leprosy) were forcibly sent to all the way through the mid-20th century. Today there are a small number of Hansen's disease patients still living there.
Watch the video version of this podcast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7__7fk-G0Xg
Read the transcript: https://hawaiicatholicherald.com/2023/05/18/podcast-father-patrick-killilea-kalaupapa-priest/
13 Apr 2023
Meet Our Staff: Circulation manager extraordinaire Donna Aquino
Donna Aquino first started working at the Hawaii Catholic Herald right out of high school and has never left. She's the diocesan newspaper's circulation manager but also covers many other areas of the office including helping to proof each issue, many admin tasks, and being the first person you'd see when you visited the Herald.
29 Mar 2023
Jayne Mondoy on Catholic faith formation and changing confirmation to second grade in Hawaii
Jayne Mondoy, the director of the Diocese of Honolulu's Office of Faith Formation, talks about the current catechist retreats she's doing on all the islands as part of the U.S. Catholic church's focus on the "Eucharistic revival," as well, as Hawaii moving the sacrament of confirmation to second grade where it is received alongside first Communion.
(Intro and outro music: "Hawaii untropic" by vicbang. CC 3.0)
24 Feb 2023
Lisa Gomes on youth and young adult ministry in Hawaii
In this episode of Hawaii Catholic Herald Highlights, associate editor Anna Weaver talks with the Diocese of Honolulu's Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry's director, Lisa Gomes.
She says we all need to be youth ministers.
(Intro and outro music: "Hawaii untropic" by vicbang. CC 3.0)
9 Dec 2022
On Advent Music: Robert Mondoy
Robert Mondoy, the music director at St. John Vianney Parish in Kailua and, shares his favorite Advent songs.
Read the related story here: https://hawaiicatholicherald.com/2022/11/23/o-come-o-come-liturgical-musical-recommendations-for-the-season-of-expectation/
23 Nov 2022
Eva Andrade on faith lobbying in Hawaii public policy
Eva Andrade has been advocating for Christian values in isle politics for close to 30 years, both as the president of Hawaii Family Forum, a nondenominational Christian lobbying group, and as the executive director of the Hawaii Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the Diocese of Honolulu.
The Hawaii Catholic Herald talked to Andrade a few days after the 2022 fall elections. She discussed topics like why she’ll never run for public office herself and low voter turnout in the state.
And read our full profile of Andrade. https://hawaiicatholicherald.com/2022/11/09/eva-andrade-has-been-advocating-for-catholic-christian-values-in-isle-politics-for-close-to-30-years/
3 Nov 2022
Mary Duddy on being a grandparent, marriage and family life
Hawaii Catholic Herald columnist Mary Duddy shares her best marriage advice, talks about the joys of being a grandparent and explains what she took away from working in the diocesan tribunal office on marriage annulments.
Read Duddy's columns for the Herald: https://hawaiicatholicherald.com/tag/mary-duddy
20 Oct 2022
Vicar general Msgr. Gary Secor on his life, job responsibilities and favorites
We profiled Msgr. Gary Secor, vicar general of the Diocese of Honolulu, back in 2021. https://hawaiicatholicherald.com/2021/03/03/msgr-gary-secor-celebrates-10-years-as-vicar-general-and-more-than-40-years-in-service-as-a-priest-of-the-diocese-of-honolulu/
For our podcast we talked about what he does as vicar general, being a caretaker for his mother, what Bishop Silva is like, how the diocese has handled fewer priest vocations, and what some of his favorite things are.
3 Oct 2022
Deacon Michael Weaver shares about the role of permanent deacons
Michael Weaver, the Diocese of Honolulu's permanent deacons director, talks with the Hawaii Catholic Herald about why he became a deacon, what a deacon does and why he wanted to become a deacon like his father.
16 Sept 2022
Mark and Maricel Sebastian, an update with a Hawaii Catholic couple
In this episode of Hawaii Catholic Herald Highlights, we catch up with Mark and Maricel Sebastian, who we featured in a Feb. 2020 issue of the Herald. Read the original story here: https://hawaiicatholicherald.com/2020/02/19/the-sacrament-we-give-each-other/
2 Sept 2022
Meet Our Staff: Interview with Patrick Downes, Hawaii Catholic Herald editor
In our second podcast, Hawaii Catholic Herald Happenings talks with none other than our editor, Patrick Downes. We discuss how he became editor 40 years ago, his musical background and collaborations with comedian Frank DeLima, and what it takes to write a song about a saint. Did you know Downes is the writer of "Waimea Lullaby"?
19 Aug 2022
Meet Llewellyn Young, superintendent of Hawaii Catholic Schools
In the first episode of Hawaii Catholic Herald highlights, we get to know Hawaii Catholic Schools superintendent Llewellyn Young better.
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