FAITH AT HOME We tend to look outside our walls to ask how we can help. Where are the hungry or homeless in our community? How can we care for those in poverty or prison? But the works of mercy call us to look closer: to see those around us as Christ, too. Often it’s […]
Archives for April 2022
Father Kenneth Doyle: When did the Holy Spirit come? Why no altar flowers for Lenten funeral?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I have often wondered about the difference between the disciples receiving the Holy Spirit immediately after the Resurrection “on the evening of that first day of the week” (Jn 20:19-23) and the coeming of the Holy Spirit upon them at Pentecost (Acts 2:1-4). Is it two different accounts of the same event, […]
Richard Doerflinger: Gender politics and the Supreme Court
A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY Judging by news coverage and social media, Senate hearings on the confirmation of appellate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer have provided more political theater than enlightenment on the law. One media storm erupted over the claim that Judge Jackson doesn’t know what a woman is. […]
Bishop Larry Silva’s 2022 Easter Message
2022 EASTER MESSAGE If Jesus is risen from the dead — which is what we celebrate at Easter — where is he now? Was his resurrection only an event to inspire his own Apostles and other disciples who knew him two thousand years ago, so that they could tell the wondrous story to inspire […]
Easter welcomings
Chuukese deacon helps reconnect fellow Micronesians to east Hawaii Island Catholic community By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald MOUNTAIN VIEW, Hawaii — If you browse the names of those entering the Catholic Church in Hawaii this Easter, you’ll spot one of the longest lists of names under the small St. Theresa Parish in Mountain View […]
Dutton’s sainthood cause moves to ‘diocesan inquiry’ phase
By Anna Weaver and Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald It’s another small, but significant, hop forward on the long path to sainthood for Kalaupapa’s Servant of God Joseph Dutton. On March 30, Bishop Larry Silva of the Diocese of Honolulu announced that preliminary steps are now done and the first session of the “diocesan inquiry” […]
For Pope Francis, there is no such thing as a ‘just war’
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — U.S. President Joe Biden minced no words calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “butcher” who should no longer be in power. No matter how much one reporter pressed Pope Francis on the plane to Rome from Malta, asking, “What would be your message to Putin?” “What […]
Talk story: The Way of the Cross
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Holy God, be with us now as we meditate on your Son’s journey to Calvary. Remind us that still, in this present day, many of your children continue that walk to Calvary, carrying heavy, difficult crosses. May we, struggling with our own crosses, always remember your promises of justice, mercy and […]
Oberammergau
Passion Play makes a post-pandemic return to German town By Günther Simmermacher Catholic News Service In 1633, at the height of the Reformation, the Black Death was sweeping through Europe, including the southern German region of Bavaria. The terrified people of one small village decided to do something to protect themselves from this pandemic: The […]
Photo: Celebrating 500 years
Members of the St. Jude Filipino Catholic Club in Kapolei pose with the statue of Santo Nino at the March 19 Mass celebrating 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. (Photo courtesy of Tere Hunt)