Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: Dec. 23, 2022

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Merry Christmas, Quiz-takers! You may be preparing to enjoy a big Christmas feast. So here’s a Christmas food joke for you. How does Good King Wenceslas like his pizzas? Deep pan, crisp and even! -H.C. Harold [forminator_quiz id=”31088″] PRINTABLE QUIZ 1) Christmas food French Canadian Catholics have a tradition of eating a late-night feast after […]

Prized dinosaur collection for sale

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Josiah Riedel-McKeen displays dinosaurs from his personal collection for sale at the garage sale fundraiser for Malia Puka O Kalani Parish in Keaukaha on the Big Island. Josiah, 17, a student at Hilo High School, is the son of Robyn Riedel, parish pastoral council chairperson, and Greer “Baba” McKeen, parish stewardship committee chairperson. He has […]

Tourists lift Bethlehem’s spirits

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By Judith Sudilovsky Catholic News Service BETHLEHEM, West Bank — On the third Sunday of Advent the pews of St. Catherine Church were overflowing, with families and young children, teens and older parishioners attending Mass in anticipation of Christmas. Pilgrim groups waited outside in the courtyard and, in the Church of Nativity, adjacent to the […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Is a funeral Mass required? Do Masses have to include moments of silence?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: My wife and I are in our mid-70s and have bought cemetery plots and made our funeral arrangements. We selected immediate burial, without any rites, ceremony or embalming. But after talking to family members, we are worried that perhaps, in not having a Catholic funeral Mass, we are sinning gravely and making […]

RCIA is now ‘OCIA’: What’s behind name change?

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By Daniel Meloy Catholic News Service IRA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — For anyone interested in becoming Catholic, wishing to complete the sacraments or wanting to learn more about what the church teaches, the answer for decades was “join RCIA.” The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, the process by which the church brings in new converts […]

Value those who have disabilities, pope says

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  By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Making churches accessible and services understandable is important, but having wheelchair ramps and sign-language interpreters is not enough for a parish to call itself “inclusive,” Pope Francis said. The church also must meet people’s needs for “belonging, relating to others and cultivating their spiritual lives […]

Pope says Mary joins migrants travelling north

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  By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — During this “bitter time” of war, hunger, injustice and poverty, Our Lady of Guadalupe invites everyone to open their lives to her son, Jesus, and to learn to love others like he does, Pope Francis said. “The Lord, through the Virgin Mother, continues to give […]

USPS ‘Virgin and Child’ stamp features one of the world’s most revered images

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By Catholic News Service BOSTON — Every two years the U.S. Postal Service issues a traditional first-class Christmas stamp showing Mary and Jesus, and this year’s stamp features an oil-on-panel painting from the first half of the 16th century titled “Virgin and Child.” Attributed to a Florentine artist known since the late 1960s as the […]

‘Why The Nativity?’ is serviceable addition to stock of Christmas films

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By Kurt Jensen Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — If you get the impression that the film “Why the Nativity?” is ubiquitous this holiday season, that’s no accident. Instead, it’s the conscious intent of the folks at Turning Point Productions, creators of this retelling of the New Testament’s infancy narratives. The dramatization — based on a […]