AMID THE FRAY In the 50th year since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision allowing abortion on demand, that same court has judged that case wrongly decided and kicked America’s most neuralgic issue back to its elected representatives. Pro-lifers have responded with joy that a goal so long desired has been attained. But whether […]
Archives for July 2022
Laura Kelly Fanucci: Catching God at the ballfield
FAITH AT HOME As a mother of five boys, I have spent countless nights at baseball fields, but never have I glimpsed God in the dugout until tonight. Can I confess that I was bored by my own son’s game — bored only because his team was winning and he’d finished pitching, so my attention […]
Pope’s Canada trip: Beginning and ending with ‘sorry’
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said all the speeches he has prepared for his trip to Canada “begin and end” with asking forgiveness. In an early July interview, he acknowledged the “cruel way” the Catholic Church collaborated with the Canadian government in “colonization” by uprooting Indigenous children from their […]
Police deflect rioters from Portland Catholic church, avert damage
By Catholic News Service PORTLAND, Ore. — Police officers successfully drove dozens of anarchist rioters away from Holy Redeemer Church in Portland late July 1. The Portland Activists online calendar had announced a night rally at nearby Peninsula Park with the intent to “Abolish SCOTUS.” Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24 decision overturning Roe […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: God’s door is never closed
17TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Genesis 18:20-32; Colossians 2:12-14; Luke 11:1-13 The Book of Genesis is the source of this weekend’s first story. As with other passages in this marvelously profound religious book, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah sadly is often overwhelmed by arguments about where these cities were in Middle Eastern geography millennia […]
Christina Capecchi: The duty of delight
TWENTY SOMETHING Here we are, in the thick of summer, this deep and gentle place. The world is still broken, but we are given a season of delight. Sweet corn and watermelon, birdsong and bare feet and the nostalgic sensation of endless summer stretching out before us like a million tufts of cloud roaming the […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: The pope’s latest prayer intention
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TIPS Every month our Holy Father Pope Francis asks us to pray for a specific intention. For the month of July, the intention is the elderly. Every ohana, or family, should cherish its members who are the largest branches of the family tree, the kupuna, or elders. “Stand up in the presence of […]
Heralding back: July 22, 2022
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — July 28, 1972 The Cathedral That Never Was Most Honolulu Catholics would have a hard time imagining their cathedral anyplace but on Fort Street. Yet, at one time plans were made to build a new cathedral elsewhere. On January 7, 1927, The Advertiser ran a front page […]
Official notices: July 22, 2022
Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate.] July 23, 5:00 pm, Mass with Confirmation & First Holy Communion, Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Honolulu. July 24, 12:00 pm, Mass for Reverend Arnold Ortiz’s 50th Ordination Anniversary, St. Elizabeth Church, Aiea. July 26, 9:30 am, Bishop’s Administrative Advisory Council (video conference); 3:30 pm, […]
Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: July 22, 2022
Dear Quizmaticians, It’s mid-July and time for a little mind jog to shake off the summer doldrums. No theme here, just a few odds and ends. Good luck. -H.C. Harold PRINTABLE QUIZ 1) Pious Parents Sts. Anne and Joachim, whose feast is July 26, are the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In what […]
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