HAWAII HAWAII WORLD HAWAII Quiet, joyful Carmelite, Pregnancy center free ‘Humanae Vitae’ said rooted Pope Francis advances one of Hawaii’s original speech ruling seen as good in respect church has for sainthood causes seven, dies news for local case human dignity of young teens Page 5 Page 6 Pages 10 Page 12 HVOLUME 81,awaii NUMBER 14 CatholicFRIDAY, JULY 13, 2018 Herald$1 HCH PHOTO At the ordination Mass of Father William “Pila” Tulua, some of the Diocese of Honolulu’s seminarians pose with Bishop Larry Silva and vocations director Father Rheo Ofalsa, who is to the left of the bishop. Training future priests is expensive Annual collection needs more support to cover Hawaii seminarian education By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Any parent who has saved or paid for a child’s higher education knows that learning doesn’t come cheap. That remains the case for the Diocese of Ho- nolulu to support its seminarians through the coursework and degrees that will make them Hawaii’s future priests. It costs roughly $40,000 a year per seminar- ian during their four years of post-graduate the- ology study, according to Father Rheo Ofalsa, the diocese’s vocations director. (By compari- son, tuition, room and board for the University of Notre Dame is more than $60,000 a year). The diocesan Vocations Office Those seminarians who enter formation at printed up special appeal envelopes the undergraduate college level are responsible for the July 21-22 special collec- for paying for their own bachelor’s degree tu- tion for the education of Hawaii’s ition, though the diocese can loan the funds. seminarians. Mount Angel Seminary costs $34,528 a year for Continued on page 3 2 HAWAII HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • JULY 13, 2018 Hawaii Catholic Herald Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu Founded in 1936 Published every other Friday PUBLISHER Bishop Larry Silva (808) 585-3356 Bishop’s page [email protected] EDITOR Patrick Downes (808) 585-3317 [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITOR Anna Weaver (808) 585-3320 Bishop [email protected] ADVERTISING Larry Silva Shaina Caporoz WITNESS TO JESUS | TENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (808) 585-3328 [email protected] CIRCULATION Donna Aquino (808) 585-3321 Enduring suffering, awaiting joy [email protected] HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD Here is the text of the Bishop Larry Silva’s The woman with the hemorrhage had (ISSN-10453636) Periodical postage homily for the Thirteenth Sunday of suffered for 12 years, not only a physical paid at Honolulu, Hawaii. 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