VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Father Clyde Phillips, Maryknoll Fathers Privilege and sadness: life of a missionary Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I remember when Maryknoll Father John Joyce used to give us our report cards when I was in grade school at St. Joseph School in Hilo. He always gave them […]
Archives for November 2015
Synod had difficult moments, pope says
The first task of the Catholic Church “is not to hand down condemnations or anathemas, but to proclaim the mercy of God,” Pope Francis told members of the Synod of Bishops on the family.
Photo: Papal blessing
Bishop Larry Silva blesses a painting of Pope Francis in the downtown Honolulu chancery lobby, Oct. 27.
Photo: Century of sisters
Century of sisters Sister Mary Joane Caritas Gepitulan of the Daughters of St. Paul carries items from the Pauline bookstore in downtown Honolulu during a special Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Oct. 25. The Daughters of St. Paul celebrated at the liturgy the 100th anniversary of the founding of the […]
De-clutter, make room for the spirit
Effie Caldarola: FOR THE JOURNEY A member of my faith-sharing community devoted one year to buying nothing. Nothing, at least, that wasn’t a necessity. She bought food, of course, and if her printer ran out of ink, she would deem that a necessary purchase. She paid her utility bills and her mortgage, but she added […]
Christina Capecchi: Searching for peace with help from a sage
TWENTY SOMETHING It is the book that somehow surfaces when you need it most — manna for the multi-tasker, solace for the stressed. It is the book you stock up on to give to others, to slip in Christmas stockings, to pay it forward. It is the book that spiritual directors recommend again and again: […]
Got enemies?
Kathleen T. Choi: IN LITTLE WAYS The danger with reading Scripture is coming across passages that hit home — hard. Recently, I read Luke 6:27-38 about loving your enemy and doing good to those who hurt you. The verses challenged me. Who are my enemies, and how do I treat them? The first enemies I […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: In God we trust
32ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 1 Kings 17:10-16; Hebrews 9:24-28; Mark 12:38-44 The First Book of Kings furnishes this weekend with its first reading. Political governance, in the minds of the ancient Hebrews, was not the chief function of their kings. Rather, assuring the nation’s faithfulness to God and to the law of God given […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Receiving Communion from the priest
QUESTION CORNER A few weeks back, I responded to a man who wrote that he was bothered when he saw a family deliberately avoid the Communion line of a lay extraordinary minister of holy Communion in order to receive the host instead from a priest. I noted that it’s the same Eucharist no matter who […]
Father John Catoir: Evolving church part of tradition
We have to also keep in mind that we have seen that the church can develop and change with time. The Second Vatican Council taught us that this change is only possible in our traditions, not in the church’s solemn dogmas.