Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

2028 Games called ‘great opportunity’ for U.S. church

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By Gina Christian OSV News With Los Angeles set to host the Summer Olympics and Paralympics in 2028, the Catholic Church in the U.S. is “in the quad” — a four-year period of training between the global competitions — to hone its evangelization game, a priest and former Olympian told OSV News. “Let’s spiritually respond, […]

Japanese sister was Marian visionary

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By Gina Christian Maria Wiering OSV News A Japanese woman religious and Marian visionary has died some five decades after witnessing the miraculous weeping of a statue of Mary and receiving urgent messages to pray in reparation for humanity’s sins. Sister Agnes Sasagawa, a member of the Institute of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart […]

Aid workers reeling from ‘unprecedented’ year of death

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By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News As the world marked World Humanitarian Day 2024 this month, the latest figures on the dire circumstances aid workers face on the front line highlight the alarming increase in attacks against them and their work to relieve the suffering of civilians caught in the crossfire. The aid research advocacy […]

Noelani Tugaoen, Chaminade University student: Welcoming God with an open heart

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Viriditas2: Soul Greening Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I have always considered myself a cradle Catholic. However, it wasn’t until my early high school years that I really started to look into my faith. I attended a public school. At the school, I didn’t really feel that it was a […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Obeying God’s law requires us to act

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Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8; James 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 The Book of Deuteronomy is the source of this weekend’s first reading. Deuteronomy is from the Pentateuch, the collection of five books that appears as a group first in sequence in the present versions of the Bible. The Pentateuch […]

Cardinal Timothy Dolan: Music should enhance, not overtake, Mass

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Commentary You’ve seen those “bulletin bloopers.” I enjoy them. Here’s one: “The topic for next week’s sermon will be ‘What will hell be like? Come early and listen to the choir.’” Thank God that can’t be said about most of the choirs I’m grateful to hear at Sunday Masses here in the archdiocese. Ours at […]

Sarah and David Herrmann: Hold kids to task, reduce your own stress

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Embracing family Have you ever found yourself collapsing on the sofa at the end of a long day once the children finally were tucked in bed? Maybe, just maybe, you’re exhausted because you are doing too much work for your children. Yes, you read correctly. Perhaps you are helping too much, and your well-intended kindness […]