By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — In early December, the community in McAllen, Texas, felt the reopening of an almost 60-year-old wound that never healed and one that involved the local Catholic community, prompting a written response from the local bishop on Dec. 20 expressing “sorrow.” After listening to evidence, a Texas […]
Archives for January 2018
‘Talking story’ is the theme for catechist retreat days
In Hawaii we love to talk story. Stories strengthen relationships and impart wisdom. They are also powerful tools for evangelization and catechesis. “Let’s Talk Story” is the theme for three upcoming retreats for catechists on Oahu, Kauai and Maui sponsored by the diocesan Religious Education Office. The half-day retreats will “celebrate Christ alive through […]
Gregorian chant offers elevated liturgy tied to early church
By Chaz Muth Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — When Erin Bullock steps in front of the altar at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, she is there to sing parts of the liturgy and to guide members of the congregation through song. Her role as cantor at the church is as visible […]
Pope turns 81 with singing kids and 13-foot pizza
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Celebrating his 81st birthday, Pope Francis blew out the candles on a 13-foot long pizza after being serenaded with song and dance by children and employees from a Vatican pediatric clinic. A group of children receiving assistance from the Vatican’s St. Martha Dispensary, a maternal […]
Photo: Commitments and recommitments
The Hawaii-Southwest region of the Franciscan Associates held an installation of associate co-directors, and a commitment and recommitment of associates Nov. 18 at St. Francis Convent in Manoa. Associates Sister Patricia Schofield and Sister Miriam Dionese, both Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, were recognized for their years of service to the Hawaii […]
Vatican releases new instructions on authenticating, protecting relics
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Only relics that have been certified as authentic can be exposed for veneration by the faithful, said a new Vatican instruction. Published Dec. 16 in Italian by the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, the instruction clarifies and details the canonical procedures to be followed by local bishops […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: We must follow him
2ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20; John 1:35-42 The First Book of Samuel is the source of the first reading for this weekend. Originally, First and Second Samuel were one volume. At some point in history, an editor divided them into the two volumes, so two volumes appear […]
Father John Catoir: God really loves you
“God is love, and he wants to abide in you.” (1 John 4:16) The storms of life are passing, but God’s love is unchanging. Stone Age people thought that the weather was God’s way of expressing his various moods. He was either resting or raging. The Hebrew Prophets rejected this idea. They knew from revelation […]
Richard Doerflinger: ‘It’s no use reasoning with you!’
A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY Have you had arguments in which the other person would not concede your point, no matter how many compelling facts and reasons you brought to bear? That is most common in partisan politics, where mutual distrust and character assassination seem to have replaced rational debate. But it happens on moral issues […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Which Ten Commandments are Catholic?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Recently I read an article stating that the “Catholic” Ten Commandments are different from those given to Moses. According to this article, Catholics deleted the Second Commandment — about no idols or graven images — and then split the last one into two in order to make up for that deletion. (It […]
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