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Honolulu Civil Beat
By Denby Fawcett
Sometimes people call me with information that’s so maddening I wish I had never heard it.
Such was a call I received recently from a friend who told me St. Anthony of Padua Church in Kailua is still referring to its parish hall as “Father Henry Hall.”
Father Joseph Henry was a serial child sex abuser.
One of his victims, on learning that the now deceased Catholic priest’s name is still on the church website, was surprised and upset.
“”Father Henry destroyed many lives,” says John Michael Pedro Jr. of Kailua. “His name should not be anywhere, not on St. Anthony’s parish building, not on the website, not in church publications.”
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