Bishop Silva is headed for Rome to see the pope, meet with officials and pray at the tombs of Sts. Peter and Paul By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva has his ticket for Rome. He departs Friday, Jan. 17, and arrives Sunday, Jan 19. A week later he will join 32 of […]
Archives for January 2020
Official report to Rome describes Hawaii church as ‘very much alive’
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald “The Diocese of Honolulu is a local church that is very much alive in its ministry, its spirituality and its outreach to those in need,” reads the summary of the “Quinquennial Report,” the official accounting of the state of the Catholic Church in Hawaii sent to the Vatican in […]
Commentary: Why we march for life
By Alfred Hagen Special to the Herald “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain” [1 Corinthians 15:58] We march first and foremost to raise our voices for the nearly 61 million unborn babies who have died […]
Iraqi cardinal: Innocents will ‘be the fuel’ for war
By Dale Gavlak Catholic News Service Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako, responding to a U.S. drone attack in Baghdad that killed Iran’s top general, said “wisdom is required to avoid the ‘volcanic eruption’ we are about to face.” Speaking during the Epiphany Mass in Baghdad Jan. 6, he said the current crisis resulted from the […]
Bishop Larry Silva: The romance of Christmas
WITNESS TO JESUS | CHRISTMAS Here is the prepared text of the homily of Bishop Larry Silva delivered on Christmas, Dec. 25, at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace and the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa In 1988, when I was a pastor of a parish in Oakland, my very dear friend was looking […]
Ecological sins
The idea of updating the Catholic catechism to include acts that harm nature sparks Twitter debate By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ announcement that the Catechism of the Catholic Church would be updated to include a definition of “ecological sin” sent Catholic Twitter into a frenzy. Reactions ranged […]
Commentary: Event of the decade
By Catholic News Service This editorial appeared online Dec. 26 on the website of the Catholic Register, the Toronto-based national Catholic Canadian newspaper. From a Catholic perspective, few if any dates were more significant during the past decade than Feb. 11, 2013. On that day Pope Benedict XVI, citing his age and declining health, broke […]
Pope Francis begins New Year with apology, prayers for peace
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis began the New Year with an apology for losing his patience the night before with a woman who grabbed his hand and yanked him closer to her while he was greeting people in St. Peter’s Square. To get away, the pope had slapped her […]
Liturgical composers, performers to give free concerts on Oahu, Maui
The Marianist Center of Hawaii has invited two well-known liturgical composers to give two island concerts, the first at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12 in the Mystical Rose Oratory on the campus of Chaminade University and Saint Louis School, to be repeated on Maui Feb. 13 at St. Anthony Church in Wailuku. The organizers have named […]
Talk story: This year, leave your comfort zones
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Yet in the Spirit of this wonderful Christmas Story we will find Jesus most concretely when we travel out of our comfortable places. As he was first found in the poorest conditions on the night of his birth, we find him in the poor, the homeless and the hungry as we […]