Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Gloria Aqui and Arlenee Ver, parish staff at St. Catherine, Kapaa: Wisdom from cradle Catholics

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VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald SMD: How long have both of you been working at St. Catherine of Alexandria parish in Kapaa, Kauai? AV: Let us put it this way, we are both cradle-born parishioners. Gloria is from St. Sylvester’s in Kilauea, and I am from St. […]

Official notices: April 14, 2023

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Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate.] April 15, 10:00 am, Deacon Council (video conference). April 16, 10:00 am, Mass with Confirmation & First Holy Communion, Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, downtown Honolulu; 12:00 pm, Mass with Consecration of a Virgin Living in the World of Lorraine Manlolo, Cathedral Basilica […]

Question Corner: Jesus became man so I could become God? Do people talk too loudly before Mass?

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  QUESTION CORNER By Jenna Marie Cooper Q: I’m reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church and have a question about CCC 460. Can you please fully explain the lines: “For the son of God became man so that we might become God” and “… might make men gods.” I am to become GOD? That […]

U.S. military archbishop slams Walter Reed decision to cancel Catholic pastoral contract ahead of Holy Week

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  ‘Incomprehensible’ By Gina Christian OSV News Hours before Holy Week began, a U.S. major military medical center ended a long-standing contract to provide Catholic pastoral care to veterans and service members, violating their religious freedom, according to Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for Military Services. On March 31, Walter Reed National […]

Faith journeys

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This Easter, among the more than 220 in Hawaii who will be welcomed into the Catholic faith, receiving the sacraments of initiation — Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist — will be a soldier and a second-grader By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald A void not being filled When Army Specialist Sasha Robello arrived in Hawaii on […]

Photo: Blessing of the chrism

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Bishop Larry Silva breathes over the holy chrism, part of the rite blessing one of three holy oils at the Chrism Mass for the Kauai vicariate, March 14, at St. Theresa Church in Kekaha. The Chrism Mass is celebrated every year during Lent. The other oils blessed are the oil of catechumens and the oil […]