KIHEI — Fred and Donna Ventura of Kula, Maui, have been selected to serve as the Worldwide Marriage Encounter Hawaii executive couple. The Venturas follow Jose and Mary Elizabeth Alvior of Mililani who completed their second two-year term as WWME Hawaii’s leaders in April. “Thank you to Fred and Donna for saying yes to leading […]
Archives for May 2018
Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: May 18, 2018
Dear Herald Geniuses, what better way to spend a few spare minutes than to indulge in Catholic trivia on the back page of the Hawaii Catholic Herald. Well, yes, there may be better ways, but since you are here, why not test your knowledge of all things catholica. 1. Pope In what year did Pope […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Isn’t visiting the sick a pastor’s duty?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I read your column every week in our archdiocesan paper, and I have a question for you. What is the role of the parish priest at the time of the serious illness and death of a parish member? I recently lost my husband after a long illness, the last several months of […]
Letters to the Herald: May 18, 2018
Repeal assisted suicide What will it take to repeal Hawaii’s new law supporting physician-assisted suicide? For humanity to evolve, we must relinquish violence which is rampant in our culture. Murder of others and murder of self are forms of violence. Rather than contriving ways to remove people from the planet, we are invited to creatively […]
Richard Doerflinger: The paradoxes of inclusion
A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY In a recent homily, Bishop Robert E. Barron rightly identified two paramount values in our secular culture: being “inclusive” and being “nonjudgmental.” The two seem closely related. If you want to embrace everyone in society, you avoid making moral judgments that banish some people to the margins. So all are welcome, […]
Carolyn Woo: A woman of uncompromising faith
OUR GLOBAL FAMILY Preparation for the 75th anniversary of Catholic Relief Services calls to mind a truly remarkable woman whose work has informed the Catholic social tradition, particularly in the United States during the last century. In my own case, I owe her a special debt. Though she is not well-known beyond the peace movement […]
Effie Caldarola: The need for apologies
FOR THE JOURNEY When former first lady Barbara Bush died recently, memories of her good qualities abounded. In a culture where females are pressured to think a face-lift is just a matter of time and slimness is non-negotiable, she was an attractive natural with a matronly figure and soft white hair. A champion of literacy […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Through the Holy Spirit, Jesus lives
PENTECOST Acts of the Apostles 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23 This weekend the church celebrates the Feast of Pentecost. The Acts of the Apostles provides the first reading, the dramatic story of the first Pentecost. In this passage, the imagery is very important, since these images spoke volumes to those persons in the […]
Cardinal urges bell tolling to call attention to murders
By Catholic News Service MANILA, Philippines — Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle called for church bells in the archdiocese to toll at 8 p.m. each day to protest the continuing spate of killings in the country. He said the tolling of the bells will “haunt the perpetrators of violence and killing to remember their victims, never […]
Speaker Paul Ryan gives House chaplain his job back
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Jesuit Father Patrick Conroy, chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives who said he had been forced to resign, was reinstated to his post by House Speaker Paul Ryan May 3. The priest was reinstated after a letter he wrote to Ryan, R-Wisconsin, became public. In the letter, Father […]
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