YOUCAT*: Without the Gospels we would not know that God sends his Son to us men out of his infinite love, so that despite our sins we might find our way back to eternal fellowship with God. [422-429] Nowadays we receive good news in a variety of ways — a text message, through Facebook or […]
Archives for May 2015
Benedictine nuns make their home on the range
Sister Maria Walburga Schortemeyer, ranch manger at the Abbey of St. Walburga, reaches out to a calf in late March in a pasture near the abbey in Virginia Dale, Colo. Along with running the ranch, the community of 24 Benedictine nuns also maintain a retreat house for individuals and groups who wish to spend one […]
Manaolana | Karen Osborne: Providing hope where none seems to exist
I’ve been thinking a lot about hope, lately. I live in Baltimore and for the past few weeks, we’ve been in the news for peaceful and violent reasons. We’ve seen the entire spectrum of protest, from burning police cars to calm speeches in front of City Hall following the death of Freddie Gray, a Baltimore […]
Manaolana | Krakow calling: Experience the church universal at World Youth Day 2016
World Youth Day is a little more than a year away. Will you be there?! Local Catholics — youth, young adults and chaperones — are invited to travel with Bishop Larry Silva and the diocesan Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry to Krakow, Poland, July 22-Aug. 2, 2016. That’s where millions of faithful are […]
Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk | Making sense of bioethics: What is VSED and why should it matter to us?
More than 20 years ago, Dr. David Eddy, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, described how his mother, though not suffering from a terminal illness, chose to end her life through VSED (voluntarily stopping eating and drinking). She was “very independent, very self-sufficient, and very content.” When she began to be afflicted […]
Father Kenneth Doyle | Question Corner: I’m divorced. Can I be a Catholic?
Q: I am a 68-year-old woman and am seriously considering converting to Catholicism. But I have been married more than once, have now been divorced for 11 years and, prior to the divorce, was separated for 10 years. I was exposed to Catholicism at an early age (when the service was in Latin), and I […]
Official notices: May 22, 2015
Bishop’s calendar Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate] May 23, 10:00 am, Confirmation Mass for West Hawaii Vicariate, St. Michael Parish, Kona; 10:00 am, Baccalaureate Mass for Damien Memorial School, St. Augustine Parish, Waikiki. [Fr. Gary Secor]; 5:00 pm, Confirmation Mass, Sacred Heart Parish, Pahoa. May 24, 9:00 am, Confirmation Mass […]
Father John Catoir: Using dialogue to discuss difficult situations
In today’s secular climate, it isn’t easy to guide teens along paths that will lead them to happier lives. Where do you begin talking to them about some of the potential problems they might face or the situations others might force them into? From drugs to sex, there’s an array of situations facing teenagers in […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion | Feast of Pentecost: We can refresh the world
Acts 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23 In the church’s liturgical year, only Easter and Christmas eclipse Pentecost. The importance, and grandeur, of these feasts of course derive from the events being commemorated, but the church also records the lessons taught by the feasts, and through the readings for these feasts, instructs us in […]
Nick Brown, after a long, varied path, will be ordained a priest this month
Diocesan seminarian Nicholas “Nick” Brown, right, at his May 1 graduation ceremony at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wisconsin. Brown will be ordained a priest May 22 in Honolulu. (Photo courtesy of William Tulua) Diocesan seminarian Nicholas “Nick” Brown was packing boxes and gearing up for graduation when the […]