Maryknoll School is honoring the family of the late Arnold Baptiste Sr., founder of the Hawaii Medical Assurance Association (HMAA), as this year’s Noblesse Oblige awardees at the award and scholarship dinner at the Sheraton Waikiki on May 21. Recognized will be Emily Marciel Baptiste, Maryknoll class of ’53, not pictured, Arnie and Joji Jacinto-Baptiste, […]
Archives for May 2022
Photo: Easter outreach
In keeping with the Diocese of Honolulu’s outreach to incarcerated sisters, brothers and youth, Damien Memorial School students in Gaston Gosselin’s religion classes wrote messages of hope and joy in specially designed Easter cards. Students added stickers to their personal messages. The cards were distributed to the Women’s Community Correctional Center, the Federal Detention Center […]
Citing ‘police state,’ Asia cardinal urges prayers for Hong Kong
Catholic News Service YANGON, Myanmar — Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, urged prayers for Hong Kong after the detention of Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun. “Hong Kong used to be one of Asia’s freest and most open cities,” Cardinal Bo said May 14. “Today, it has been transformed into […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: What’s the Catholic view on tithing? Should a couple cohabitat before getting married?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I grew up in a Protestant church but converted to Catholicism. Sometimes it seems to me that Catholics give a lot less money to their churches than Protestants do. (The Sunday collections reported in our parish bulletin would, I think, be dwarfed by some Protestants parishes much smaller than our own.) On […]
Greg Erlandson: My sense, your nonsense
AMID THE FRAY A friend of mine is threatening to run for office. His slogan will be “Stop the Nonsense.” I think it’s a slogan an increasing number of us could get behind. Nonsense is in the eye of the beholder, however, and the trick is defining what the nonsense is. For some, it may […]
Laura Kelly Fanucci: Speaking of resurrection
FAITH AT HOME By Laura Kelly Fanucci We don’t talk enough about resurrection. How a marriage can be resurrected: How what felt dead and gone, ready to be buried in the dark earth forever, is not always dead and gone. How a friendship can be resurrected: How speaking hard words can breathe new life into […]
Pope: Christian politics must be marked by love, respect
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — For politics to be “the highest form of charity,” as Catholic social teaching promotes, it must be exercised with full respect and even love for those who disagree, Pope Francis said. “We are called to live the political encounter as a fraternal encounter, especially with those […]
Sainthood a reachable goal
Saints’ lives prove the power of God’s love to transfigure all, Pope Francis says at canonization Mass By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The lives of the saints prove that holiness is not an unreachable goal accomplished by a select few but comes from acknowledging and sharing God’s love, Pope Francis […]
Mary Adamski: Sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit
VIEW FROM THE PEW School’s out, school’s out, teacher let the students out. It’s graduation time with all the flourishes and flowers, and for other scholars, a break from the discipline and demands, homework and goals and tests. It’s still a vivid happy memory for a lot of adults like me — the bell rang […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Breaking the bonds of earth
THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD Acts of the Apostles 1:1-11; Ephesians 1:17-23; Luke 24:46-53 The Acts of the Apostles supplies the first reading, the story of the Ascension of the Lord from earth into heaven. This passage is the beginning of Acts. As is the case with the Gospel of Luke, Acts seems to have […]