By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — On a Christmas like no other, Pope Francis prayed for people who could not be with their families because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but he urged everyone to recognize and help those who are suffering even more. From inside the Hall of Blessings — a long, […]
Archives for January 2021
Pope says God gives all the task of being peacemakers
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — As the Catholic Church celebrated World Peace Day Jan. 1, Pope Francis offered prayers for the people of war-torn Yemen, especially the nation’s children left without education and often without food by years of civil war. Reciting the Angelus from the library of the Apostolic Palace, […]
Patrick Downes: A continuum of spiritual care
COLUMN-BARIA* Bishop Larry Silva wasted little time. On Sept. 15, the same day Gov. David Ige signed Act 022 (20), he delivered the news “with great joy” to Hawaii’s pastors. What’s to be joyful about during a pandemic? A new law that will allow Hawaii churches to build columbaria, public structures for the keeping of […]
FATHER SCOTT BUSH | 1950-2021
Priesthood was second, much richer, career for island-born vocation By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Father Scott Bush, an Oahu-born, part-Hawaiian former moving company manager who left a business career to embrace God’s call to priesthood, serving more than 25 years in parishes on the Big Island and Oahu, died Jan. 2 at Island Hospice […]
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