Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Pope: Bishops must act as shepherds, not with censures

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By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM SLOVAKIA — The debate about denying Communion to politicians who support abortion must be handled in a pastoral way, not by public condemnations that seek to “excommunicate” Catholics who are not in line with church teaching, Pope Francis said. During his return flight […]

Philippines-born vocations director incardinated into the diocese

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By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald In a short ceremony during the muggy, midday Mass at St. Stephen Diocesan Center’s chapel on Sept. 16, Father Joseph “Bong” Diaz officially joined the Diocese of Honolulu surrounded by the majority of the priests serving here in Hawaii. The Mass took place during the diocese’s annual priests retreat, […]

Vatican says tourism should foster culture of encounter, safeguard planet

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Tourism needs to protect both people and the planet as well as promote a more inclusive economy, the Vatican said. People need to support “an inclusive approach to tourism and resist the temptations of individualism and nationalism that are too common in our contemporary society,” said […]

Photo: Vatican in 67,000 pieces

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Rocco Buttliere, a LEGO architect from Chicago, stands next to the Vatican City State replica he created that was on display Aug. 14-15, 2021, at the LEGO BrickUniverse convention at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner, La. He spent three months in 2020 creating the scale model from 67,000 LEGOS pieces. He also completed a 114,000-piece […]

Vatican to require vaccination proof or negative COVID test

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Visitors, tourists and employees who want to enter Vatican territory will be required beginning Oct. 1 to show proof of vaccination, recovery from the coronavirus or a negative COVID-19 test. The anti-COVID ordinance, which was approved by Pope Francis and signed by Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, president […]

Talk story: Welcomed, protected, promoted, integrated

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OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “The Church is called to go out into the streets of every existential periphery to heal wounds and to seek out the suffering, without prejudice or fear, but ready to widen her tent to embrace everyone. Among those dwelling in those existential peripheries, we find many migrants and refugees, displaced persons […]

Greg Erlandson: Lethal tenderness

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AMID THE FRAY By the time Dr. Jack Kevorkian was put in prison for second-degree murder, he had helped an estimated 130 patients kill themselves. The first person he “helped” was an Oregon teacher suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. It was hardly “death with dignity.” With a suicide machine he had rigged up inside his rusty […]