St. Francis Healthcare System is launching a series of practical caregiver education and training for family members. The next topic is bathing. For the elderly, the ability to give themselves baths may become more difficult. Family caregivers may not know how to begin to help. The St. Francis team will provide tips and techniques to […]
Office for Social Ministry: In memory of Aracely, Clara and John
Talk Story “La Paz este con ustedes! Peace be with you!” These were the first words in a letter Bishop Larry Silva wrote to the family of the late Aracely del Carmen Urruela, Clara Isabel and John “Junior” — the mother and two children recently murdered in Puna. The words also opened the Mass of […]
Sister Cecelia Santos, Maryknoll Sisters: Being the other Jesus
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I am not a social worker, but I did a lot of social work in Chile as there are a lot of poor people there. I collected food and clothing in the parish and let people come to where they were stored […]
Mary Adamski: Mercy in a suffering world
VIEW FROM THE PEW Know how you tend to clip things out of publications when they are something you agree with? My collection from rail transit bashers got so unwieldy I actually ditched it, and I can’t quite decide to do the same with the Trump cartoons … yet. Last month I got out the […]
Kathleen T. Choi: Following the arrows
IN LITTLE WAYS The Long’s in downtown Hilo is a busy one, and the parking lot is usually full. The search for an empty stall often tempts drivers to ignore the directional arrows. The result can be two cars nose to nose with no room to maneuver. Few of those drivers would ignore arrows out […]
Bill Dodds: To former seminarians
YOUR FAMILY Soon after my grandson turned 11, I said to him, “Well, in three years you can move away from home.” He looked at me. “That’s what I did,” I said. He turned to his mom. “Really?” he asked since he knew his grandfather can be one who stretches the truth. “Really,” she said. […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: What is the ‘internal forum’?
Q: In a recent editorial in a Catholic newspaper, I read that, with regard to whether civilly remarried Catholics may receive holy Communion, Pope Francis is now encouraging people to talk to their priest “in the internal forum.” What does that mean?
Father Ron Rolheiser: Loyalty and patriotism revisited
In a recent article in “America” magazine, Grant Kaplan, commenting on the challenge of the resurrection, makes this comment: “Unlike previous communities in which the bond among members forges itself through those it excludes and scapegoats, the gratuity of the resurrection allows for a community shaped by forgiven-forgivers.” What he is saying, among other things, […]
Father John Catoir: God is with us even when our greatest joy seems to vanish
As a priest, I’ve spent the past 30 years of my life writing about supernatural joy in the lives of others. The message is simple: faith, together with the discipline of controlling your thoughts, can help overcome even the most horrible emotional pain we can experience. The pain of life, as many of us know, […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: A loving God restores life
The first reading comes from the First Book of Kings. As would be assumed, this book and its companion 2 Kings, are Old Testament writings about the kings of Israel. The kings certainly are mentioned, but these books are not political histories. In a way, the kings are not the principal figures.
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