Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Maria Corazon Albano Palafox Aczon, Mary, Star of the Sea Church: Music is a prayer, a gift, a calling

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Viriditas 2: Soul Greening Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. My grandmother was my first piano teacher, and I began playing the piano at the age of 3 or 3-1/2. I grew up watching my family […]

Jenna Marie Cooper: Clarifying marriage nullity process

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Question corner Q: I was married in a non-Catholic wedding ceremony, then divorced years later civilly. Once I became Catholic and wanted to marry again, I got an annulment of the first marriage. My non-Catholic friends and relatives said this was a Catholic cop-out to get around Jesus’ prohibition against divorce, by saying that the […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Seek God’s help, not earthly gains

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Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Numbers 11:25-29; James 5:1-6; Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 The Book of Numbers, the source of the first reading for this weekend, is one of the first five books of the Bible. The ancient Hebrews, and Jews today, attribute these five books, collectively called the Pentateuch, to Moses. Always, however, Moses […]

HOPE Services Hawaii reaches people where they are

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By Celia K. Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald More than two decades after it became its own nonprofit organization, HOPE Services Hawaii continues to grow and to broaden its efforts to help people experiencing homelessness on Hawaii island. In 2024 alone, the agency has made strides in expanding its network of support sites and has also […]

‘Sow seeds of love’: Pontiff calls on faithful to overcome divisions

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Catholic News Service Pope Francis embarked this month on the longest foreign trip of his papacy, a long-planned four-nation apostolic visit to Southeast Asia and Oceania. Among his goals, according to one of the cardinals traveling with the pope, was to “encourage Catholics in all the contexts in which they find themselves.” Filipino Cardinal Luis […]

Talk story: Helping the poor is a key part of helping the earth

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OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Let us pray for the cry of the earth. If we took the planet’s temperature, it would tell us that the earth has a fever. And it is sick, just like anyone who’s sick. Are we listening to this pain?” (from Pope Francis’ prayer intention video, “For the Cry of the […]