Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Archives for October 2019

Photo: Why did the chicken go to church?

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The Windward Oahu Knights of Columbus Council 6307 were selling Hoku BBQ Chicken tickets to raise money for the Pearson Place Pregnancy Resource Center the weekend of Oct. 12-13 and 19-20. On Oct. 12, “Jethro Sanders,” a.k.a. Knight of Columbus Lou Carnazzo, and a chicken (St. Anthony School, Kailua, student Jaron Gilmore) had their cluck-ets […]

Marriage Encounter comes to Big Isle’s west side

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It’s been 30 years but Worldwide Marriage Encounter is back on the west side of the Big Island! The marriage enrichment movement just completed a Holy Spirit-filled weekend in Waimea at Annunciation Church on Sept. 20-22. Marriage Encounter organizers thank the West Hawaii vicariate parishioners, whose three-year dream to bring a weekend to their communities […]

Photo: Planning and building

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Diocese of Honolulu facilities director Vincent Vernay (at left) answered questions during the “Thespian Players” presentation at the Oct. 19 Parish Project and Building Commission Project Planning Conference on Oct. 19 at St. Stephen Diocesan Center. Sitting on the players panel were (from left) David Pfeifer, architect and partner at Domusstudio in San Diego; Shane […]

Catholic lay evangelist to speak here on being a ‘spiritual warrior’

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The Eucharistic Apostles of The Divine Mercy and the Diocese of Honolulu Evangelization Taskforce are sponsoring a series of three talks on the theme “Catholics, Wake Up! Be a Spiritual Warrior” by Catholic author and evangelist Jesse Romero, Nov. 13, 14 and 15, at three locations. The first talk, “Spiritual Warfare,” is at Holy Trinity […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Ten Commandments or 613? Masses said for non-Catholics?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: Why is it that Christians feel that the coming of Jesus freed them from the 613 prescripts that Jews count in the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) and that they can adhere only to the Ten Commandments? Why those 10 and not the other 613? (Albany, New York) A: […]

‘Soft’ ethnic cleansing of Christians reported in northeast Syria

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By Dale Gavlak Catholic News Service AMMAN, Jordan — Despite Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly assuring U.S. Vice President Mike Pence that his forces would not persecute religious minorities in northeastern Syria, people on the ground say minorities are being targeted. Amnesty International reported that the Turkish military and its allied Syrian armed groups […]

Pope apologizes that statues were vandalized

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis apologized that two men entered a church near the Vatican, took controversial statues and tossed them into the Tiber River. “As bishop of the diocese, I apologize,” he said Oct. 25, the first time the full membership of the Synod of Bishops for […]

With papal decree, Vatican Archives no longer ‘secret’

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By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Citing the negative misinterpretations that the word “secret” implies, Pope Francis has changed the name of the Vatican Secret Archives to the Vatican Apostolic Archives. In a decree, issued “motu proprio,” on the pope’s own initiative, and published by the Vatican Oct. 28, the pope […]