By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Vatican City State tribunal has ordered the opening of two tombs in a small Vatican cemetery at the request of the family of Emanuela Orlandi, a young woman who disappeared in 1983. Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican City resident and the daughter of a Vatican employee, […]
St. John Vianney honors milestone marriages
For the past two years in June, St. John Vianney Parish, Kailua, has honored married couples with a special Mass and blessing by pastor Father Peter Miti. This practice was started by the parish’s Marriage and Family Committee, chaired by Thomas Duddy. This year, couples married 50 years or more were invited to the 5 […]
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, a hands-on children’s religious education program, is taking root in Hawaii
‘The child in all of us’ By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald On a sunny weekday morning in June, preschoolers at Mary, Star of the Sea Early Learning Center in Waialae-Kahala were busy working at their “free choice” activities out on the school lanai — scooping from a water table, playing house, building with blocks. […]
Photos: Taking Jesus to the streets
Anthony Selvanthan of the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, leads the one-and-a-half mile procession through the streets of Honolulu from the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa to the cathedral basilica, on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, otherwise known as Corpus Christi, June 23. Altar servers join in the procession. Deacon […]
St. ‘Guy Next Door’: U.S. bishops affirm diocese’s effort for Michigan man’s canonization cause
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service BALTIMORE — The U.S. bishops, after being consulted about the sainthood cause of a man who, except for service in World War II, spent his life in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, gave vocal assent June 12 for the Diocese of Marquette to continue to pursue the cause. Hearing no nays […]
Sister Maria Emma Quijada, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of the Philippines: My mission is completed
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald It has been 27 years since I started my mission in Hawaii. I have loved being with the people, my community and everyone I met. From my first assignment of teaching at St. John the Baptist School in Kalihi onward to the […]
Dutch priest critical of ‘euthanasia death’ reports of teen
By Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service OXFORD, England — A senior Dutch priest criticized media reports on the death of a teenager experiencing depression, accusing foreign media of “sensationalizing euthanasia” in his country. “It’s difficult to comprehend how anyone could abandon life so tragically,” said Msgr. Hans Pauw, episcopal vicar for youth affairs in the […]
Bishop Larry Silva: ‘Give them food yourselves’
WITNESS TO JESUS | Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ This is the prepared text for the homily by Bishop Larry Silva, delivered on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), June 23, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu. There are lots of […]
Pope advances sainthood causes for U.S. priest, founder of Hawaii’s Dominicans
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis advanced the sainthood cause of Father Augustus Tolton, who was the first African American diocesan priest in the United States and founder of the first black Catholic parish in Chicago. Signing decrees issued by the Congregation for Saints’ Causes June 11, Pope Francis did […]
Mary Adamski: ‘When through the woods and forest glades I wander’
VIEW FROM THE PEW What was that scary movie with those kids running in the forest trying to escape something awful and the trees and bushes seemed ominously reaching out to grab them? I saw it years ago and it replayed as a dream on a recent hot windless night maybe triggered by an overhanging […]
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