Bishop Larry Silva imparts a blessing on an altar server during Mass for the World Day of the Sick, Feb. 11, the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. The liturgy included the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick for those seriously ill. The Order of Malta, Honolulu Auxiliary […]
Archives for February 2020
Katie Prejean McGrady: The inconveniently necessary Lent
WINDOW SEAT WISDOM I hate Lent. I don’t like the color. I’m much more a green and white than a purple and gray type of gal. I don’t like the music. Everything is in a minor key, somberly plodding along like we’re all walking to our grave. I don’t like the length of the season. […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: The death of Kobe: grieving on social media
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS There continues to be a lot of debate on the merits of using social media for reaching the religiously unaffiliated and growing our members as evidenced by a recent article in the National Catholic Register titled “Catholics reflect on 10 years of the Good, Bad and Ugly of social media.” On the […]
Deacon Will Friese: The Lord didn’t want me … I thought
I AM A DEACON I’m a deacon. Who would ever have thought that would happen?! Well, it did, just five short years ago. This wasn’t something I ever planned to do. I had already retired twice, first from the Air Force in 2003, and again from federal civil service in 2014. I always figured that […]
Knights bring tidings of comfort food and joy
There were so many reasons not to do it. It’s on Christmas Day. It’s going to be a lot of work. It’s going to be expensive. It will take away volunteers from their families. Where are you going to cook the food? How will you transport the food? Who’s going to pay for the gifts? […]
Heralding back: Feb. 21, 2020
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Feb. 27, 1970 Needle and Thread Were Busy at CYO Art Workshop Sunhild Hampson receives an assist from Sister Susan Glass, M.M. (right) of the CYO Art Department. For more than forty people on Saturday afternoon, the CYO Art Workshop held at St. Patrick’s Auditorium provided a […]
Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: Feb. 21, 2020
My quizzy takers, February is the month of the Holy Family. So this month’s quiz is loosely family-themed. Speaking of that, have you heard this joke? After explaining the Ten Commandments to the class, the religion teacher asked her students which commandment teaches how to treat our brothers and sisters. One child raised a hand […]
Photo: Aloha from Hawaii
Pope Francis greets Bishop Larry Silva during his ad limina visit to the Vatican on Jan. 27. The bishop presented the pope with a wrapped gift of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts from the Hawaii Carmelite nuns. (CNS Photo/Vatican Media)
Pope, U.S. bishops talk political polarization, evangelization, sex abuse, migration, family life and other topics
Wide-ranging discussion By Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Catholics need to be on guard against allowing the angry rhetoric that comes from a polarized society, especially in an election year, to seep into discussions about the life of the church, Pope Francis told a group of U.S. bishops. Thirty-three bishops, auxiliary bishops and retired […]
Roaming Rome (and other places)
By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva accompanied by Msgr. Gary Secor, vicar general, was in Italy from Jan. 19 to Feb. 2, primarily for his ad limina visit to the Vatican and Pope Francis. While they were abroad, Msgr. Secor sent back photos and updates of their adventures. Here are some of […]