Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Honokaa church joins 21st century in time for coronavirus pandemic

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LETTER FROM THE BIG ISLAND By Dale J. Hahlbeck Special to the Herald Our Lady of Lourdes is the name of our parish in the rural town of Honokaa on the Big Island of Hawaii. Nestled along the Hamakua Coast, this quiet little town was once a bustling sugarcane plantation community. The majority of our […]

Official notices: May 15, 2020

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Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate.] May 17, Private livestreamed Sunday Mass, Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, downtown Honolulu. May 19, 9:30 am, Bishop’s Administrative Advisory Council (video conference). May 21, 12:00 pm, Hawaii Catholic Conference (video conference); 7:00 pm, Diocesan Virtual Baccalaureate Prayer Service (video conference). May 24, […]

Effie Caldarola: Don’t bottle up emotions

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FOR THE JOURNEY Have you had a good cry lately? I have. I saw a Twitter post about a cheerful old fellow in an English care facility who slept with his late wife’s photo every night. So, a thoughtful staff member had a photo company create a pillow for him, one side of which displayed […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: May we pray to Mother Angelica? Are there sins only the pope can pardon?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: I have always had great admiration for Mother Angelica. Would it be wrong of me to talk to her and ask her prayers if she has not yet been declared “blessed” by the church? (Phoenix) A: Mother Angelica died in 2016 at the age of 92. In 1981, she founded the Eternal […]

Sainthood cause for Dorothy Day picking up steam in United States

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By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The sainthood cause for Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, believes it could have all of the documentation prepared at some point next year to send to the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes. It would represent the culmination of an effort begun informally in 1997, […]

Churches in Europe reopening with restrictions to avoid contagion

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service ROME — With a number of countries in Europe slowly easing restrictions as part of a long-term strategy for containing the spread of the coronavirus, churches, too, are seeing changes in what is or will be allowed. Where possible, for example, in Italy, protocols were the result of government […]

Prominent Catholics among those who suffered under Nazis

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75TH ANNIVERSARY OF GERMAN SURRENDER By Gunther Simmermacher Catholic News Service When Germany surrendered to Allied Forces May 7, 1945, Catholics saw a nation and their church shattered. Adolf Hitler’s destructive reign had turned many Germans into brutes or victims of the Nazis’ crazed megalomania. The Catholic Church suffered tremendously, even if some of its […]

In new biography, Pope Benedict says world threatened by humanism

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By Catholic News Service MUNICH — In a newly published biography, Retired Pope Benedict XVI said the Catholic Church is threatened by a “worldwide dictatorship of seemingly humanist ideologies.” He cited same-sex marriage, abortion and the “creation of humans in the laboratory” as examples. The retired pope, 93, said: “Modern society is in the process […]