Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Archives for May 2020

Father Kenneth Doyle: May we pray to Mother Angelica? Are there sins only the pope can pardon?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: I have always had great admiration for Mother Angelica. Would it be wrong of me to talk to her and ask her prayers if she has not yet been declared “blessed” by the church? (Phoenix) A: Mother Angelica died in 2016 at the age of 92. In 1981, she founded the Eternal […]

Sainthood cause for Dorothy Day picking up steam in United States

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By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The sainthood cause for Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, believes it could have all of the documentation prepared at some point next year to send to the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes. It would represent the culmination of an effort begun informally in 1997, […]

Churches in Europe reopening with restrictions to avoid contagion

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service ROME — With a number of countries in Europe slowly easing restrictions as part of a long-term strategy for containing the spread of the coronavirus, churches, too, are seeing changes in what is or will be allowed. Where possible, for example, in Italy, protocols were the result of government […]

Prominent Catholics among those who suffered under Nazis

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75TH ANNIVERSARY OF GERMAN SURRENDER By Gunther Simmermacher Catholic News Service When Germany surrendered to Allied Forces May 7, 1945, Catholics saw a nation and their church shattered. Adolf Hitler’s destructive reign had turned many Germans into brutes or victims of the Nazis’ crazed megalomania. The Catholic Church suffered tremendously, even if some of its […]

In new biography, Pope Benedict says world threatened by humanism

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By Catholic News Service MUNICH — In a newly published biography, Retired Pope Benedict XVI said the Catholic Church is threatened by a “worldwide dictatorship of seemingly humanist ideologies.” He cited same-sex marriage, abortion and the “creation of humans in the laboratory” as examples. The retired pope, 93, said: “Modern society is in the process […]

Christina Capecchi: ‘Keep that hope machine running’

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TWENTY SOMETHING It started with the Italians, whose arias rose from the balconies. They were on lockdown, but their voices rang out down empty moonlit streets. Ballads, the national anthem, improvised ditties over the barking of dogs. Cellphone footage of the singing went viral, offering hope amid the horror. “Italians are like their opera characters: […]

Sarah and David Herrmann: A month of May like no other

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EMBRACING FAMILY Except for the very few (if any) readers of this column who were alive during the Spanish flu of 1918, this month of May will be like no other May in our lives. May conjures up many images: Mother’s Day, first Communions, confirmations, graduations, end-of-the-year performances, awards ceremonies, and the beginning of a […]

Email scammers prey on COVID-19 generosity and fears to get money, gift cards

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  Reminder: Bishop Larry Silva will never email or otherwise contact you to ask that you buy and send him gift cards, money or gifts. Recent emails circulating to local Catholic churches, schools and diocesan employees are pretending to be the bishop or perhaps another church official. The phishing emails usually ask the recipient to […]