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.

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.

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.

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/

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.

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.

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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.

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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/

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/

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