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Meet Fr.
Hal
Fr. Hal comes from Protestant family most of who
immigrated to North America by the 1740s. He became a Catholic in Hawaii while
attending Punahou School, founded by New England Protestant missionaries.
In school, he read the life of John Henry Newman
(up for beatification and sainthood) and became interested in the Oratorians of
St Philip Neri. Newman upon becoming a Catholic joined the Oratorians brought
the first communities to England. Later, Fr. Hal would do his doctorate in
theology at Oxford University in Newman’s theology of the Church.
The Oratory that Fr. Hal joined was the first,
and at the time the only one and it was a home missionary group in South
Carolina. Fr. Hal was ordained in 1974 and was in turns campus minister, parish
priest, and provost of the Oratory from 1974-1991. He was invited by the diocese
of Honolulu to found an Oratory there and worked on that from 1991 to 2007. He
was a pastor, dean, and director of inter-church and inter-faith outreach.
In 2008, Fr. Hal was asked to be the Catholic
chaplain in the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life at Wesleyan with Rabbi
David Teva as director. There had not been a chaplain for two years.
Fr. Hal’s interests are fairly quiet ones:
literature, music, and animals, especially dogs and pigs.
To learn more about Fr. Hal please read an interview featured in the
Argus
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