Men carry a statue of Santo Nino de Cebu, who is depicted as the Infant Child Jesus, during a special Mass honoring the popular Filipino devotion to the Child Jesus at Mary Queen Catholic Church in Friendswood, Texas, Jan. 4, 2020. The devotion originates from Cebu City, Philippines, and was brought over by Filipino immigrants. […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Sin is no match for God
3RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 8:23-9:3; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, 17; Matthew 4:12-23 The Book of Isaiah supplies this weekend’s first reading. It offers us a powerful lesson. When this part of Isaiah was written, God’s people were skating on thin ice. They still had their independence, at least after a fashion. Hebrew kings still […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Witnessing for life online
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS This new year ushers in a whole new decade. Many themes associated with 2020 are connected to clarity, vision and focus. For our church, the month of January is focused on respect life events and prayer. Across the country there will be marches and walks for life — events to galvanize the […]
Stewardship Day offers inspiration, ideas, networking opportunities
Stewardship Day 2020 will bring together local and mainland church leaders offering inspiration, practical ideas and networking opportunities, Saturday, Feb. 8, 8 a.m.-noon, at Resurrection of the Lord Church, 94-1260 Lumikula Street in Waipio, Oahu. The main speaker is Jo Ann Paradise, a long-time educator, consultant and retreat director from the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Her […]
Trebek cites ‘power of prayer’ in accepting Fordham Founders’ Award
By Catholic News Service LOS ANGELES — “Jeopardy” host Alex Trebek and his wife, Jean, received Fordham University’s Founders’ Award at a Jan. 7 reception in Los Angeles. According to Tom Stoelker writing in Fordham News, this was the first time the award — which he described as “weighty statuette” of Fordham founder Archbishop John […]
To the threshold of the apostles
Bishop Silva is headed for Rome to see the pope, meet with officials and pray at the tombs of Sts. Peter and Paul By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva has his ticket for Rome. He departs Friday, Jan. 17, and arrives Sunday, Jan 19. A week later he will join 32 of […]
Official report to Rome describes Hawaii church as ‘very much alive’
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald “The Diocese of Honolulu is a local church that is very much alive in its ministry, its spirituality and its outreach to those in need,” reads the summary of the “Quinquennial Report,” the official accounting of the state of the Catholic Church in Hawaii sent to the Vatican in […]
Commentary: Why we march for life
By Alfred Hagen Special to the Herald “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain” [1 Corinthians 15:58] We march first and foremost to raise our voices for the nearly 61 million unborn babies who have died […]
Iraqi cardinal: Innocents will ‘be the fuel’ for war
By Dale Gavlak Catholic News Service Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako, responding to a U.S. drone attack in Baghdad that killed Iran’s top general, said “wisdom is required to avoid the ‘volcanic eruption’ we are about to face.” Speaking during the Epiphany Mass in Baghdad Jan. 6, he said the current crisis resulted from the […]
Bishop Larry Silva: The romance of Christmas
WITNESS TO JESUS | CHRISTMAS Here is the prepared text of the homily of Bishop Larry Silva delivered on Christmas, Dec. 25, at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace and the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa In 1988, when I was a pastor of a parish in Oakland, my very dear friend was looking […]
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