Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Archives for September 2020

Maui parish taps its youth to navigate pandemic’s tech challenges

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By St. Anthony Parish staff Special to the Herald On the weekend of June 13, St. Anthony Parish in Wailuku, Maui, was ready to reopen its doors to parishioners after being shut down for nearly two months due to the coronavirus pandemic. The joy of seeing each other again was tempered by health protocols and […]

Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court

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By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Eight days after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President Donald Trump announced Sept. 26 that Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a judge on the Chicago-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, is his nominee to fill that seat. The president said he […]

Sister Ardis Kramer, Maryknoll Sisters: Mississippi to Molokai

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald A sense of mission runs unconsciously deep through my family heritage. My father was Luxembourger, while my mother was French and Spanish. My mom’s mother was Spanish from the de Guzman line in Caleruega. We share the same blood as St. Dominic […]

Hawaii Children and Youth Day to feature local Catholic youth

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The longstanding Hawaii Children and Youth Day event on Oahu is going online this year with a Catholic touch. The Oct. 2 event will have a virtual scavenger hunt with prizes, interactive online “booths” with storytelling, crafts and educational videos, and family resources. It will also feature a virtual stage of entertainers including a number […]

Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: Oct. 2, 2020

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You guys, I just took second place in the diocesan comedy contest after a Franciscan sister! My jokes are second to nun! Will you “win” this quiz? [forminator_quiz id=”23926″] PRINTED QUIZ 1) Incardination, Part I Bishop Larry Silva recently incardinated a priest from the Apostolic Vicariate of Galapagos into the Diocese of Honolulu. I’ve got […]

Katie Prejean McGrady: Caught, not taught

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WINDOW SEAT WISDOM “Mom, you too slow. I do it.” The almost 3-year-old began to say the Hail Mary, complete with a little head bow at the name Jesus and a profoundly loud “Amen!” at the end. I stood there in stunned silence, and as I pulled the sheets up around her and gave her […]

John Garvey: Sweeter than the honeycomb

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INTELLECT AND VIRTUE I’m certainly not the first person to observe that the tone of our civic discourse has gotten increasingly angry. I have recently come to realize, though, that some people actually like it that way. This is not a sentiment confined to one end of the political or religious spectrum. Aristotle says in […]

10 cathedral columns getting marbleized makeover

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald The large interior columns of the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace are being blocked off for three months as each undergoes repair and a fancy paint job that will help restore the look of the historic church back to an earlier time. Since last year, artisans have […]

Faith in a pandemic world: On being a Catholic medical professional during COVID-19

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By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Medical professionals in an array of jobs from nursing home workers to vaccine researchers have been putting in extra hours and risking their own health to help people affected by the novel coronavirus. We spoke with three Hawaii Catholics directly involved in the healthcare field to learn how they […]