Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

The bishop and the coronavirus

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A Hawaii Catholic Herald interview with Bishop Larry Silva on shepherding the flock during a pandemic In answers to questions posed by the Hawaii Catholic Herald by email April 16, Bishop Larry Silva addressed the challenges he faced with the coronavirus pandemic, the positive and negative reaction to hard decisions he made, the good that […]

Pastoring in the time of the coronavirus

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald While many parishes have gone high tech in ministering to their people during this time of self-seclusion because of the coronavirus pandemic, some have found that old-fashioned ways work too. Father Marlon Belmonte, administrator of the two southern-most parishes in the diocese, Sacred Heart, Naalehu, and Holy Rosary in […]

Catholic schools continue the academic year with distance learning

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By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald They’ve been videoconferencing math lessons, doing P.E. in the backyard, weaving palm branches for Holy Week, and thanking essential workers with handmade signs and social media shares. Hawaii Catholic schools have moved their academic years online while the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the islands and the world. Here’s […]

Pope calls for a ‘contagion’ of Easter hope, peace, care for poor

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — In an Easter celebration like no other, Pope Francis prayed that Christ, “who has already defeated death and opened for us the way to eternal salvation,” would “dispel the darkness of our suffering humanity and lead us into the light of his glorious day, a day […]

Pope leads Way of the Cross in empty, torch-lit St. Peter’s Square

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By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — For the first time in his papacy, Pope Francis led the Way of the Cross from St. Peter’s Square rather than Rome’s Colosseum, where it has been held annually for more than five decades. Two rows of torches lit the pathway from the stage set […]

Talk story: Together, we will get through this storm

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https://www.facebook.com/HOPEServicesHawaii/posts/3037223849675575   OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Here we cry, and we suffer. All of us. We can only get out of this situation together, as a whole humanity and we need to look at each other with a sense of solidarity.” (Pope Francis) The constantly evolving news surrounding the spread of COVID-19 and the suffering […]

Waialua vestment designer making Damien-Marianne protective masks

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Wendy Wylder had been sewing chasubles, the priest’s primary outer Mass vestment, in her small sewing studio in Waialua to present to Hawaii clergy at their annual convocation in May when the coronavirus pandemic struck. The event was canceled, so she adjusted. Wylder is now making protective face masks […]

Father Alapaki Kim, diocesan priest: Experiencing God in our midst

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic E Iehova, ua haka pono mai ‘oe ia‘u, a ua ‘ike ho‘i. Ua ‘ike no ‘oe i ko‘u noho ‘ana i lalo, a me ko‘u ala ‘ana i luna, Ua maopopo ho‘i ko‘u mana‘o ia ‘oe ma kahi lo‘ihi ‘e aku. Ua ho‘a‘o […]