A local doctor answers the call to be a ‘Consecrated Virgin Living in the World’ By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald When Lorraine Manlolo was doing her medical residency, she came across a story online showing a young woman in a wedding gown. This bride, the headline read, had “married Jesus Christ.” After clicking […]
Archives for April 2023
Hawaii’s 2023 JUBILARIANS
“God, our Father, guide of humanity and ruler of creation, look upon these your servants, who wish to confirm their offering of themselves to you. As the years pass by, help them to enter more deeply into the mystery of the church and to dedicate themselves more generously to the good of humanity.” –Prayer of […]
Pastors bring back the shared cup to a cautious faithful
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva on Holy Thursday brought back reception of the precious blood by the sharing of the Communion cup to a cautious faithful for the first time since March 2020, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hesitancy is likely because some parishioners are still wary of the […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Dutton’s journey to Emmaus
WITNESS TO JESUS | THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER This is the prepared text of the homily delivered by Bishop Larry Silva for the Third Sunday of Easter, April 23, at Blessed Sacrament Church, Stowe, Vermont, on the occasion of the 180th birthday celebration of Servant of God Joseph Dutton. When we think of a journey, […]
At 40, talking story
Three local sisters, contemporaries, come together over shave ice to reflect on their lives as religious Sharing shave ice and conversation after a recent lunch together, three Oahu women with more than 40 years each lived as local members of religious orders talked about their experiences in professed religious life today and what comes next. […]
Bishop preaches at Joseph Dutton birthday festivities in Vermont
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva was invited last weekend to Stowe, Vermont, a place made famous by the von Trapp Family singers and its ski slopes, and has again gained renown, this time for a Hawaii connection, as the birthplace of Ira Joseph Dutton, the third sainthood candidate to emerge from […]
Jaymie Stuart Wolfe: Welcome home, new Catholics
CALLED TO HOLINESS Becoming a Roman Catholic was one of the best decisions I ever made, and certainly the most life-changing. But in truth, I had only a vague notion of the deep waters I was wading into. What would have been helpful over the past 40 years? Here are a dozen things I wish […]
Exorcism is a hot topic for film, books this Eastertide
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Just as Catholics worldwide commemorated Jesus’ resurrection and his triumph of good over evil on Easter Sunday, theaters across the United States were preparing for the release April 14 of the latest “supernatural horror thriller” of good versus evil with “The Pope’s Exorcist.” And bookstores around […]
‘I don’t have the right to say no,’ says Jewish-born Catholic nun who perseveres to tell her Holocaust story
By Judith Sudilovsky OSV News JERUSALEM — When the raging ocean finally spit young Regine Canetti out, lifting her up a huge wave onto the thorny coast of the Turkish town of Silivri, she was stunned and shaken, her clothing fairly ripped from her body by the stormy sea. On Dec. 12, 1940, 19-year-old Canetti, […]
Four years after fire, Notre Dame making progress
By Paulina Guzik OSV News Notre Dame Cathedral will get its spire back by the end of 2023, more than four years after it was devastated by a fire. But to reopen the beloved symbol of France by Dec. 8, 2024, three conditions need to be met. These conditions are currently being carried out: cleaning […]
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