21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 22:19-23; Romans 11:33-36; Matthew 16:13-20 The first section of the Book of Isaiah provides this weekend with its first reading. The author of this section of Isaiah lived when the southern Hebrew kingdom, or the kingdom of Judah, still existed. Only later was this kingdom, and the other Hebrew […]
Archives for August 2020
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Exploring the new frontier of distance learning
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dallas Carter (@dallascarter) CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS We are just two weeks into what is becoming a very different learning experience for kids going back to school. But before COVID-19 was even on the radar, we knew the new St. Michael High School in Waialua would […]
Commentary: The Word of God remains
By Easter Almuena Special to the Herald If there was a time in our existence when we needed to read the Bible more, that time would be now. A few months ago, when the coronavirus shut down churches in Hawaii, it was so difficult not receiving Jesus daily in the Eucharist. I missed the Eucharist […]
Sister Anne Marie Callahan, MM | 1935-2020
Missionary nun was principal of Maryknoll Hawaii Catholic Herald Maryknoll Sister Anne Marie Callahan, former principal of Maryknoll High School, Honolulu, died July 30 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Maryknoll, New York. She was 85 and a Maryknoll Sister for 65 years. Hawaii, where she was sent in 1967, was her first “mission” assignment. […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Please explain death as a consequence of sin. If I am distracted in prayer, should I go back and redo those parts?
QUESTION CORNER Q: In one of your recent columns — about Our Blessed Mother’s Assumption — you wrote “Some theologians feel that, since death is a consequence of sin, Mary would not have had to die.” I have never thought of sin as causing death. Can you explain this a little more? (Montvale, Virginia) A: […]
Photo: O Salutaris Hostia
Deacon Dario Rinaldi places the host into the monstrance during a holy hour for vocations Aug. 6 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. (Photo courtesy of Dann Ebina)
Memories on the Mount
Our Lady of the Mount Parish in Honolulu’s Kalihi Valley celebrates 150 years By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Almost as far back in Honolulu’s Kalihi Valley as you can drive on the narrow, paved portion of Kalihi Street sits an obscure little cemetery with just a few visible grave markers scattered across the recently […]
COVID-19 makes for unprecedented, uncertain fall plans for Catholic schools
By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald It wasn’t COVID-19 but the threat of Hurricane Douglas that delayed the first day of school for St. John Vianney in Kailua. Preschool through eighth grade students arrived on campus the morning of July 28, a day later than planned due to the storm. This year though they were […]
Leading Catholic schools through the ‘new normal’
Llewellyn Young, interim leader of the Hawaii Catholic Schools office, discusses the challenges of Catholic education during a pandemic and why he is up to the job Acting Hawaii Catholic Schools superintendent Llewellyn Young has been the assistant superintendent for a year. He is filling the head office role between the retirement of Michael Rockers […]
Gone, but not forgotten
Two schools that closed this year left an indelible mark on generations of island students, forging an academic and spiritual foundation that served them well over the years The Hawaii Catholic Herald asked graduates of Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Ewa Beach and St. John the Baptist in Kalihi to share their memories […]