Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Official notices: Feb. 18, 2022

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Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate.] February 21, 10:00 am, Meeting of the Bishops of the San Francisco Metropolitan Province, Los Altos, California. February 21 – March 1, Retreat for the Bishops of the San Francisco Metropolitan Province, Los Altos, California. March 2, 12:00 pm, Mass for Ash Wednesday, Cathedral Basilica […]

Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: Feb. 18, 2022

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Herald friends,     If you have small children in your life, you might especially like this little story. After a woman picked her 4-year-old up from Catholic school, he asked her, “Mom, am I a priest?” His mother replied, “No, why do you ask?” The child replied, “Because I go to priest-school!” -H.C. Harold [forminator_quiz […]

Talk story: From our social ministry peripheries

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OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “We must personally reach out to the peripheries, to those who have left the Church, those who rarely or never practice their faith, those who experience poverty or marginalization, the excluded, the voiceless, etc.” (Vatican Synod Handbook for Listening and Discernment in Local Churches) Catholics around the world, including Hawaii, are […]

Hawaii parishes to take up emergency collection for Tongan disaster relief

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By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald The Diocese of Honolulu is asking parishes to take up an emergency second collection for Tonga on the weekend of Feb. 26 and 27. An underwater volcanic eruption that occurred close offshore from the island nation on Jan. 15 caused damaging tsunamis and rained down ash and other volcanic […]

Photo: Celebrating consecrated life

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Sisters, brothers and priests of Hawaii’s religious orders, institutes and congregations gather for a photo with Bishop Larry Silva after a Mass celebrating the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life, Feb. 5, in the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. There are nearly 30 consecrated groups represented in the Diocese of Honolulu. (Photo courtesy of Dann […]

Effie Caldarola: Fishers of men

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FOR THE JOURNEY Best fishing story of January: A small group of fishermen and an Irish fishing association stopped the Russian navy from conducting war games in fertile fishing territory off Ireland’s coast. The little band of Irish fishermen vowed that they would continue to send up to 60 trawlers continually into the waters during […]