COMMENTARY Cafeterias in the 1,800 public schools in New York City are observing Meatless Mondays with meatless lunches. So are the schools in Baltimore and Oakland. The movement for Meatless Mondays is spreading to varied places across America. Globally, Meatless Monday is practiced in 40 countries. Why are they going meatless? And why haven’t we […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Healed by faith
13TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Wisdom 1:13-15, 2:23-24; 2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15; Mark 5:21-43 The Book of Wisdom is the source of the first reading. When this book originally was written, the plight of God’s people was not good. They had experienced very much in their history. Among these experiences was the loss of […]
Mary Adamski: Infrastructure ponderings
VIEW FROM THE PEW Infrastructure. Bah humbug. The word has become an expletive in my life, a yardstick to measure how I’ve failed to tackle basic maintenance, a possible scary signal that I’m losing it. I mutter it when I navigate through a room that has become the graveyard of abandoned projects, because whose fault […]
Foster parents welcome high court’s unanimous ruling
By Gina Christian Catholic News Service PHILADELPHIA — Foster parents for Catholic Social Services of the Philadelphia Archdiocese said the Supreme Court’s 9-0 decision June 17 on faith-based child welfare agencies comes as a relief. The court ruled that the city of Philadelphia may not exclude such agencies including CSS from placing foster children in […]
Texas city’s ordinance creates ‘Sanctuary for the Unborn’
By Catholic News Service LUBBOCK, Texas — After a federal court dismissed Planned Parenthood’s challenge to a Lubbock ordinance that declares the city a “Sanctuary for the Unborn,” a lawyer with the Chicago-based Thomas More Society said he believes these sanctuary cities have solid footing in Texas law. “Cities have the right to regulate businesses […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Perfume a serious matter. Fallen-away Catholic kids.
QUESTION CORNER Q: Recently, in answering a reader’s concern about “perfume fests” in her parish church on Sundays, you offered your opinion that “perfume terrorism is not universal.” Let me tell you that it is, in fact, universal; there are people who are suffering in every parish. I have had to leave Mass early to […]
Effie Caldarola: Fire, drugs and greed
FOR THE JOURNEY It may have been a discarded cigarette thrown into a rag bin. No matter how it started, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City in 1911 took only 18 shocking minutes but changed history. The factory employed mostly young immigrant women, who labored long hours in a sweatshop for poverty-level […]
Pope Francis turns down German cardinal’s resignation
By Catholic News Service MUNICH — German Cardinal Reinhard Marx said that following Pope Francis’ refusal to accept his resignation, he would “not simply return to business as usual” because it would not be the right path for him personally or for the archdiocese. “The answer of the Holy Father surprised me,” Cardinal Marx said […]
Official notices: June 25, 2021
Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate.] June 25, 9:00 am, St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii Board of Directors (video conference). June 26, 10:00 am, Diocesan Review Board, Chancery, downtown Honolulu. June 26-27, Episcopal Visitation for Sacred Heart Parish, Punahou. June 29, 9:30 am, Bishop’s Administrative Advisory Council (video conference); 12:00 […]
Three Carmelite Seculars make their first promises
Hawaii’s Discalced Carmelite Secular Group celebrated a “first promise” ceremony for three of its members June 5 in the Carmelite Monastery chapel on the grounds of St. Stephen Diocesan Center. Alda Mae Takabayashi, Elaine Gibson and Celia Ona made an initial three-year pledge to pursue personal holiness through Carmelite spirituality and to care for others […]
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