Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

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 […]

Medically ‘changing’ sex not morally justified, say bishops

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  By Julie Asher OSV News WASHINGTON — Surgical, chemical or other interventions that aim “to exchange” a person’s “sex characteristics” for those of the opposite sex “are not morally justified,” said the U.S. bishops’ doctrine committee in a statement released March 20. “What is of great concern, is the range of technological interventions advocated […]

Scrub Bucket ministries offering women’s retreat

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  Scrub Bucket Gospel Ministries presents “I Praise You Jesus,” a women’s contemplative retreat, from 7 p.m. Friday April 28 through 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 30, at St. Anthony Retreat Center in Kalihi Valley. The retreat is limited to 20 women. The cost of $275 includes a private room and bath with air conditioning, Saturday […]

Good Friday’s Taize Prayer around the Cross returns to Newman

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By Jon James Special to the Herald After a three-year absence due to COVID-19, the contemplative Taize Prayer around the Cross service will be held again at the University of Hawaii Newman Center-Holy Spirit Parish on Good Friday evening, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. Taize Prayer around the Cross stems from a tradition adopted by […]