Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

New asteroids named for ‘calendar’ pope, three Jesuit astronomers

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Three Jesuit astronomers and the 16th-century pope who commissioned the Gregorian calendar have recently been honored with having asteroids named after them. The new additions include: “562971 Johannhagen,” honoring Austrian Jesuit Father Johann Hagen, who was serving as director of the Georgetown University Observatory when Pope […]

Dating crisis fuels Catholic marriage vocation collapse

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By Rachel Hoover OSV News Among Catholics, the sacrament of matrimony is in freefall. Over 50 years between 1969 and 2019, Catholic marriages declined 69% even as the Catholic population increased by nearly 20 million, according to Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. In 2021, as U.S. Catholics largely emerged from the […]

Vatican hands Parthenon pieces to Greek representatives

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Vatican officially signed the papers transferring to the Orthodox Church of Greece three marble fragments from the Parthenon in Athens, Greece; the fragments had been in the Vatican Museums’ collection for about 200 years. As he prepared to sign the papers, Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, […]

Air Force vet makes profession in the Secular Franciscan Order

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The Mother Marianne Cope Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order in Hawaii celebrated a rite of profession for candidate Lawrence Enomoto, at Holy Trinity Church, Kuliouou, on Feb. 18. The 89-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran made his profession after Mass by promising to live the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ all the days of […]

Pontiff says cardinals, top church officials, must pay rent for Vatican-owned housing

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By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Cardinals and other senior Vatican officials who have been living rent-free in Vatican-owned apartments in Rome will now have to pay “ordinary” unsubsidized rates, Pope Francis said. A rescript written by Maximino Caballero Ledo, the prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, and signed by the […]

National Catholic Sisters Week: St. Francis Healthcare honors its sisters

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By Sister Davilyn Ah Chick, OSF Special to the Herald St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii celebrated National Catholic Sisters Week by honoring all of our Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities on March 8. Our sisters living at the Plaza in Kaneohe and in Kalaupapa came to join our sisters in Honolulu […]

Vatican reports global decline in clergy, religious women

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2021, while the number of seminarians, priests, and men and women in religious orders declined, according to Vatican statistics. At the end of 2021, the number of Catholics in the world reached 1.378 billion, […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: The light of God awaits us

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FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 Drawing from the first word, in Latin, in the Entrance Antiphon for this weekend’s liturgy, this Sunday long has been called “Laetare Sunday.” Laetare means “to rejoice.” The church rejoices that despite the drabness of Lent, the glory of Christ shines forth; […]