Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Pastors bring back the shared cup to a cautious faithful

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva on Holy Thursday brought back reception of the precious blood by the sharing of the Communion cup to a cautious faithful for the first time since March 2020, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hesitancy is likely because some parishioners are still wary of the […]

At 40, talking story

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Three local sisters, contemporaries, come together over shave ice to reflect on their lives as religious Sharing shave ice and conversation after a recent lunch together, three Oahu women with more than 40 years each lived as local members of religious orders talked about their experiences in professed religious life today and what comes next. […]

Bishop preaches at Joseph Dutton birthday festivities in Vermont

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva was invited last weekend to Stowe, Vermont, a place made famous by the von Trapp Family singers and its ski slopes, and has again gained renown, this time for a Hawaii connection, as the birthplace of Ira Joseph Dutton, the third sainthood candidate to emerge from […]

Exorcism is a hot topic for film, books this Eastertide

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Just as Catholics worldwide commemorated Jesus’ resurrection and his triumph of good over evil on Easter Sunday, theaters across the United States were preparing for the release April 14 of the latest “supernatural horror thriller” of good versus evil with “The Pope’s Exorcist.” And bookstores around […]

‘I don’t have the right to say no,’ says Jewish-born Catholic nun who perseveres to tell her Holocaust story

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By Judith Sudilovsky OSV News JERUSALEM — When the raging ocean finally spit young Regine Canetti out, lifting her up a huge wave onto the thorny coast of the Turkish town of Silivri, she was stunned and shaken, her clothing fairly ripped from her body by the stormy sea. On Dec. 12, 1940, 19-year-old Canetti, […]

Vatican sends relic of the true cross to coronation of King Charles

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — As Britain’s King Charles III walks into Westminster Abbey for his coronation, he will walk behind a processional cross containing a relic of Christ’s cross given to the king by Pope Francis. While the Vatican provided no official details of the gift April 19, an official […]

Synodality moves forward

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Synod’s ‘messy,’ ‘joyful’ North American phase concludes with call to mission, moves to Rome By Gina Christian OSV News The final document for the North American phase of the 2021-2024 Synod on Synodality was released April 12, capturing a process of dialogue and discernment that two participants described as ‘messy,’ ‘joyful’ and unifying — like […]