By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of the U.S. bishops’ landmark pastoral letter “The Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and Our Response.” Then, the two “superpower” nations, the United States and the Soviet Union, held each other in check in the nuclear age as in a […]
Archives for November 2022
Vatican announces plans for Christmas tree, Nativity scene, stamps
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Nativity scene that will sit under a 98-foot-tall silver fir tree in the middle of St. Peter’s Square this year will feature 19 life-sized figures carved in cedar by artisans in the northeastern Italian town of Sutrio. The tree comes from Rosello, a village of […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: God will triumph
33RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Malachi 3:19-20a; 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12; Luke 21:5-19 The Book of Malachi is the source of this weekend’s first reading. Malachi was not a proper name for a person in ancient Israel. Rather, it was an abbreviation of an informal title, “Messenger of God.” This prophet is thoroughly in step with […]
Mary Duddy: Be thankful for your spouse
THE MARRIED LIFE “Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.” (1 Chronicles 16:34) Recently I was sitting in a chair at Kailua Beach and I noticed several people with dogs. Lots of dogs. Some dogs were running; some dogs were catching balls their owners threw into the water. Some […]
Talk story: Fighting poverty in the USA
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “I strongly encourage you to give generously to this CCHD collection as a way to witness to Jesus and indeed participate in building God’s Kingdom where “the Lord comes to rule with world with justice.” (Bishop Larry Silva, letter supporting the Nov. 13 Catholic Campaign for Human Development national collection. […]
Brother Salvador “Buddy” J. Yanzon, Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament: In the hands of God
VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald “When are you coming back?” asked some parishioners at Mary, Star of the Sea Catholic Church. “We are waiting for you,” they continued. “We will see what God’s plans are,” I responded. As one formerly engaged in the life of the church […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: May I marry in a Catholic church? Why the pulpit scolding?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church. When I was younger, I served as an altar boy for several years. About 12 years ago, I got married in a Methodist church. I never had the marriage “convalidated” in the Catholic Church since my wife was against involving another member of […]
Funeral Mass for Father Freitas scheduled
Funeral Mass of Father Patrick Freitas will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, 712 N. School Street in Honolulu. Bishop Larry Silva will be the presider. Visitation before Mass begins at 10 a.m. Refreshments will follow the Mass at the church hall. Father Freitas died Oct. 13 […]
Heralding back: Nov. 11, 2022
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Nov. 17, 1972 NEW PRESIDENT — Sister Irene Woodward is the new President of Holy Names College, Oakland, Calif., and she pauses on the hillside campus of the 100-year-old coeducational liberal arts institution to talk to three Hawaiian island students — Bernadette Serrao of Kaneohe, Oahu (daughter […]
Official notices: Nov. 11, 2022
Bishop’s Schedule November 10-12, National Catholic Youth Conference, Long Beach, California. November 14-17, Fall General Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Baltimore, Maryland. November 22, 2:00 pm, Priests Day at St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park, California. November 24, 9:00 am, Mass for Thanksgiving Day, Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, downtown […]
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