HAWAII FOURTH IN A SERIES WORLD WORLD Bishop expects a priest Comprehensive youth ‘The environment is God’s Vatican ready to announce at Kalaupapa for the ministry: empowering gift’: Church teaching on decision and guidelines ‘foreseeable future’ young people ecology before Pope Francis on Medjugorje Page 3 Page 7 Page 10-11 Page 13 HawaiiVOLUME 78, NUMBER 13 CatholicFRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 Herald$1 Respecting creation Pope Francis’ new encyclical will address the moral consequences of an unequal distribution of resources, waste, and the exploitation of nature By Barbara J. Fraser Catholic News Service LIMA, Peru — Pope Francis’ encyclical on ecology and climate, released this week, will send a strong moral message — one that could make some readers uncom- fortable, some observers say. “The encyclical will address the issue of inequality in the distribution of resources and topics such as the wasting of food and the irresponsible exploitation of na- ture and the consequences for people’s life and health,” Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo, Peru, told Catholic News Service. “Pope Francis has repeatedly stated that the environ- ment is not only an economic or political issue, but is an anthropological and ethical matter,” he said. “How can you have wealth if it comes at the expense of the suffer- ing and death of other people and the deterioration of the environment?” The encyclical, published June 18, is titled “Laudato Si’: On the Care of Our Common Home,” which trans- lates “praised be,” the first words of St. Francis’ “Canticle of the Creatures.” Although Archbishop Barreto was not involved in the drafting of the encyclical, he worked closely with then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio in 2007 on a document by the Latin American bishops’ council that included an Continued on page 12 HCH photo | Darlene Dela Cruz 2 HAWAII HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • JUNE 19, 2015 Hawaii Catholic Herald Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu Founded in 1936 Published every other Friday PUBLISHER Bishop Larry Silva (808) 585-3356 [email protected] Walking the EDITOR Patrick Downes extra mile (808) 585-3317 About 100 people [email protected] walked from the Co- REPORTER/PHOTOGRAPHER Cathedral of St. Theresa Darlene J.M. 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James Wipfield, S.M., Director of the Hawaii Marianist St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii announced June 7 that it MAIL TO Community, today announced plans for construction of a chapel for has agreed to sell St. Francis Medical Center and St. Francis Medical Donna Aquino the priests and brothers of the Society of Mary to be built on the St. Center-West to Cardiovascular Hospitals of America (CHA) and a Hawaii Catholic Herald Louis High School-Chaminade College campus on Waialae Avenue. group of about 100 physicians led by Dr. Danelo Canete. 1184 Bishop Street The new structure has been designed by Guy N. Rothwell, Sr., In a separate deal, St. Francis is planning to sell its outpatient Honolulu, HI 96813 QUESTIONS? architect, and Bro. James Roberts, S.M., artist. It will be located at kidney dialysis program, Renal Institute of the Pacific. Call Donna, 585-3321 the Palolo end of the campus, just below Kieffer Hall, the Marianist The sales mark St. Francis’ change in focus away from acute care Scholasticate. and toward services to the elderly and dying, areas in which it has long been a pioneer and is now expanding. JUNE 19, 2015 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD HAWAII 3 Bishop expects a priest at Kalaupapa for the ‘foreseeable future’ By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Shortly after St. Damien made his historic first step onto the shore of Kalaupapa on May 10, 1873, and assessed the situation, he informed his superior, Bishop Louis Maigret, that the banished community of Hawaii’s Hansen’s disease patients to which he had been temporarily assigned need- ed a permanent resident priest. There has been one ever since. Today, as the settlement antic- ipates a future without patients, Bishop Larry Silva fully expects a Catholic priest will remain there “into the foreseeable future.” He expressed that thought and others in a June 3 letter to the National Park Service which is drafting a management plan for the future of Kalaupapa Na- tional Historical Park.