COMMENTARY Did Pope Francis change Catholic teaching on gay marriage? The short answer is no. Despite the number of headlines and photos you’re seeing all across the media, Catholic teaching understands now and always that marriage is a privileged union that can only exist between one man and one woman. That bond is forged in […]
Effie Caldarola: A simple prayer that never fails
COMMENTARY Many years ago, I attended a friend’s ordination to the priesthood. This man was a Notre Dame graduate and had attended the university before he had discovered his priestly vocation. His friend, Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, spoke at the ordination ceremonies. Hesburgh, then retired and now deceased, had been president of Notre […]
Jenna Marie Cooper: Is there a big book that explains it all?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Is there an authoritative recommended single source of information on all the many Roman Catholic traditions such as behavior and rituals in church and prayers for appropriate occasions? (United Kingdom) A: No, unfortunately there is no such resource. Even when we’re considering canon law properly so-called, there is no one single master […]
Elizabeth Scalia: Yes, ‘accompaniment’ is going to get messy
COMMENTARY It’s not an easy discussion but it’s one Catholics should have. The United States just watched an abortion drama in Texas that ended when 31 year-old Kate Cox, then over 20 weeks pregnant, left the state in order to procure a legal abortion. The Texas Supreme Court had ruled that Cox and her […]
Christmas crackdown continues in Nicaragua
By David Agren OSV News BUENOS AIRES — Six lay staff members from a now-closed diocesan Cáritas chapter were convicted on money laundering charges in Nicaragua on Christmas Eve as the Sandinista regime stepped up its crackdown on the Catholic Church over the Christmas season. The Nicaraguan government has also forbidden the enactment of […]
Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: Jan. 5, 2024
It’s still the Christmas season, Quizzers, so leave that manger up just a bit longer, and grab another cup of eggnog while you take this weeks’ quiz. 1) A PROPHET SPEAKS Which biblical figure was called by God to preach to the city of Nineveh, inspiring the people in the city to proclaim a fast […]
Bishop Larry Silva: CHRISTMAS 2023 MESSAGE
Bishop Larry Silva: Christmas 2023 Nativity sets portray the great event of the birth of the Lord Jesus, the great gift of Emmanuel, God-with-us. Although the birth of Jesus took place in a particular historical time and place, and although we know he and his family were Jews, Nativity sets often portray them with local […]
Our Lady of Guadalupe: Isles honor our indigenous mother
By Jennifer Rector Hawaii Catholic Herald In Mexico every year on Dec. 12, as the sun peeks over the horizon, fireworks burst through the sky to greet Our Lady of Guadalupe on her feast day. On this day dedicated to her, thousands of pilgrims travel to see the miraculous image she left behind on the […]
Pope marks 800th anniversary of Nativity scene
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Away in a cave near Greccio, Italy, St. Francis of Assisi had the first Nativity scene — a live one — staged for the faithful on Christmas Eve in 1223. A 15th-century fresco now decorating the cave inspired the Nativity scene erected in St. Peter’s Square […]
Kalaupapa survivor Ivy Kahilihiwa countered life’s hardships with faith and a smile
Ivy Strong By Valerie Monson Special to the Hawaii Catholic Herald As a 9-year-old girl on the North Shore of Kauai, Ivy Laamea climbed a tree to survive the deadly 1946 tsunami that killed four members of her immediate family. Barely eight years after that, she was diagnosed with leprosy and forced to give up […]
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