Kalaupapa News

The Kaua'i Concert Association intends to keep bringing world-class classical and modern music, and dance concerts coming to Kaua'i despite the economic times.

Father Damien's coming elevation to sainthood in October is renewing efforts to eliminate the centuries-old stigma attached to Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy.

Father Damien De Veuster wrote about the loneliness of being a priest cut off from the counsel and collegiality of his peers.

A Belgian television crew will be in Kalaupapa tomorrow filming a documentary report about Father Damien De Veuster, who is as well known in his homeland as in Hawaii.

Father Felix Vandebroek is pastor of one of the smallest parishes in the Catholic world.

A fundraising event to support the Father Damien De Veuster canonization celebration has grown into a musical gala featuring top entertainers.

A fundraising dinner to send nine Kalaupapa patients and their caretakers to Rome for the canonization of Father Damien is scheduled for July 18 at the Sheraton Waikiki.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa's John A. Burns School of Medicine is pleased to announce eight students have completed the Imi Hoola Program and will enroll in medical school here next month.

In classrooms across the state, the canonization of Father Damien is being used as a history-in-the-making lesson to teach kids everything from the importance of helping others to the complicated protocols involved when someone is considered for sainthood.

Ten Boy Scouts will be among the hundreds of Hawai'i residents expected to flock to Rome in October for the canonization of Father Damien.

Despite the economic downturn, Hawai'i travel agents say sales of tours to Rome for the canonization of Father Damien in October are brisk, with hundreds of Hawai'i residents already signed up to make the 8,000-mile trip.

A relic of Father Damien will be brought to Hawaii in late October, according to a tentative itinerary for the relic's movement following Damien's entry into Roman Catholic sainthood on Oct.

The heroic story of Father Damien De Veuster is a chapter of Hawaii's history that is news again this year, as he will be declared a saint by the Catholic Church.

They may never bring back the drive-in movie, but from time to time they do bring back the double bill.

Plays about historical figures almost always find the playwright guessing, or simply imagining, what may have been said, thought or done at a particular point in time.

Great music is on the menu for May as several churches plan springtime concerts.

Meli Watanuki definitely believes. 'Every morning we prayed for Father Damien to be a saint,' said Watanuki, 75, who has lived at the Kalaupapa settlement on Moloka'i since 1969.

A chalice, liturgical robes and other artifacts used by Father Damien DeVeuster will be displayed next week during a memorial observance of his work as minister to leprosy victims banished to Kalaupapa.

The park service is holding the meetings to help prepare a new management plan for the time when the remaining 20 patients are gone.

More than 70 people gathered last night to share their experiences in Kalaupapa at a meeting on the future of the former settlement for Hansen's disease patients.