Easter is just a hop, skip and jump away, quizzicals. I hope your journey through Lent this year has deepened your faith. Looking forward to celebrating “Resurrection Day” with you — and seeing how you do on the following quiz. 1) Saints Which of the following is true about St. Ansovinus, whose feast day is […]
Archives for March 2016
Oscar-winning ‘Spotlight’ not an anti-Catholic film, Vatican newspaper says
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Vatican newspaper said the Oscar-winning film, “Spotlight,” is not anti-Catholic. “It is not an anti-Catholic movie, as has been written, because the film succeeds in giving voice to the alarm and deep pain” experienced by the Catholic faithful when a team of investigative newspaper reporters […]
Office for Social Ministry: Hearing stories of hope from around the world
In this Jubilee Year of Mercy, Catholic Relief Services is offering a mobile device app for its Lenten Rice Bowl program that focuses on hope. The CRS Rice Bowl app provides a daily prayer reflection, brief weekly videos telling “stories of hope” from countries around the world, recipes from these countries and a “calculator” to help compute your Lenten almsgiving.
Photos: 24 Hours for the Lord
Faithful in the Diocese of Honolulu joined other Catholics around the world in “24 Hours for the Lord,” an initiative for the Year of Mercy which Pope Francis called to be celebrated March 4-5. At the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, the 24 hours of adoration, reconciliation, prayer, praise and worship started at […]
At Our Lady of Good Counsel School, reading has its rewards and ‘penalties’
By Ginger Kamisugi Special to the Herald Reading — besides enlightening, instructing and delighting the reader — has a number of additional fun and unexpected rewards at Our Lady of Good Counsel School in Pearl City. Each year, school librarian Heidi Valencia challenges the students to read a certain number of books for her annual […]
Official notices: March 11, 2016
March 11, 11:00 am, Funeral Mass for Deacon Sid Townsley, St. Pius X Church, Manoa.
March 13, 9:00 am, Confirmation Mass, St. Damien of Molokai Parish, Kaunakakai.
March 15, 9:30 am, Bishop’s Administrative Advisory Council, Chancery, downtown Honolulu; 12:00 pm
Manaolana | Sidebar: March 11, 2016
Quote “I am convinced that listening to the voice of women at the moment of the homily would enrich our Catholic worship.” | French Dominican Sister Catherine Aubin, a theologian and professor at Rome’s Pontifical Urbanian University, in a commentary published in the Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano newspaper reflecting on the possibility of allowing laypeople, including […]
Kauai’s Catholic preschools receive Weinberg tuition assistance grants
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald A representative of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation went to Kauai March 5 bearing gifts for preschools — generous grants for tuition assistance for children from low income families. Two of the beneficiaries were Catholic schools, St. Catherine Early Learning Center in Kapaa and, on the other side […]
Manaolana | Christina Capecchi: The nun who kissed Elvis, ditched Hollywood and found her home
TWENTY SOMETHING Dolores Hart was 19 when she filmed her first movie scene: kissing Elvis Presley. The aspiring actress was dressed in a polka dot dress with her honey-brown hair swept in a ponytail. He wore a denim jacket with the collar turned up, his glossy bangs grazing his brow. They were directed to kiss […]
Heralding back: March 11, 2106
News from pages past 50 years ago — March 11, 1966 Overall view in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday as Pope Paul blessed a fleet of 72 trucks and the food they are to distribute to the hungry people of India. The pope’s appeal for aid to famine-sufferers, sponsored by L’Osservatore Romano, Vatican daily, had […]