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Effie Caldarola: O Life! O Death! O Mystery!

04/26/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

COMMENTARY My friend volunteered in a program called NODA — No One Dies Alone. It was not meant to walk the long journey through terminal illness with someone. It was, in fact, quite literal. At the hour of death, none of us should be alone. The hospital might have a suffering patient who was living […]

Jenna Marie Cooper: Where did Lazarus go before Jesus raised him?

04/22/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q: Regarding the people Jesus raised from the dead, where were their souls while they were dead? (Location withheld) A: Among the many miracles Jesus performed as part of his public ministry, some of the most remarkable include his raising several recently-deceased people from the dead. In the Gospels we read of the […]

EPIC evolution

04/12/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

In its 10th year, the Hawaii Catholic ministry for young adults continues to grow By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald On Kuhio Day, a group of about 20 young adults and a few children gathered on the covered lanai next to EPIC Ministry’s new Kaneohe headquarters. They chatted, grilled hot dogs, said grace, and loaded […]

Pope prays that Easter joy breaks through gloom of sin

04/12/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — On a bright spring morning, Pope Francis prayed that Christians would experience the joy of Easter and allow Christ’s resurrection to be “the light that illumines the darkness and the gloom in which, all too often, our world finds itself enveloped.” […]

Bishop Larry Silva: This Easter light of mine

04/12/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

WITNESS TO JESUS | EASTER This is the prepared text of the homily by Bishop Larry Silva for the Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday, April 8 and 9, delivered at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu The liturgical directives are very clear: The Easter Vigil is to be celebrated at night, after darkness has […]

You are the pa‘akai of the earth

04/12/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

On Kauai, many generations have been harvesting salt in the old Hawaiian way By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald HANAPEPE — On the southwestern coast of Kauai, in Hanapepe, a small number of families have been harvesting salt from the ocean for thousands of years. The traditional Hawaii method of “pa‘akai” (“solidified sea”) is a […]

Responding to Indigenous, Vatican disavows ‘doctrine of discovery’

04/12/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church formally “repudiates those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of Indigenous peoples, including what has become known as the legal and political ‘doctrine of discovery,’” a Vatican statement said. Issued March 30 by the dicasteries for Culture and Education […]

Images of the year’s holiest days

04/12/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

The year’s holiest days Here are photos from Holy Week, April 2-8, celebrated by Bishop Larry Silva.

Leaving the hospital, pope comforts couple whose daughter died

04/12/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME — “I’m still alive,” Pope Francis joked to reporters who asked how he was doing as he left Rome’s Gemelli hospital April 1. The 86-year-old pope, who had been hospitalized since March 29 for treatment of bronchitis, stopped his car and got out to greet well-wishers and reporters […]

May 10 marks 150th anniversary of St. Damien’s Molokai arrival

04/12/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald On May 10 the Diocese of Honolulu will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the day St. Damien de Veuster first set foot on Molokai and began a ministry of supreme charity and selflessness that would lead to his death there 16 years later and his canonization. May 10 is […]