Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Put the phone away and talk to each other, pope urges families

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis prayed that people all over the world would end 2019 “in peace, peace in their hearts,” and that families would mark New Year’s by “communicating with one another.” Reciting the Angelus prayer Dec. 29, the feast of the Holy Family, Pope Francis entrusted to […]

Newman continues to host yearly prayer service for Christian unity

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Bishop Larry Silva is inviting the leaders of Catholic, Eastern rite, Protestant, Orthodox and other Christian churches to an hour of hymns, Scripture and prayer at the ecumenical Taize service in observance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, 7 p.m., Jan. 24, at the Newman Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. […]

Richard Doerflinger: Catholic judges under the microscope

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A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY Catholics wanting to serve our country in the legal system are coming under intense scrutiny. In 2017, University of Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett was grilled by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee about her Catholic faith. Sen. Dianne Feinstein told Barrett that “the dogma lives loudly within you, […]

Church workers assist aid after Jakarta flooding leaves 60 dead

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By Catholic News Service JAKARTA, Indonesia — Caritas Indonesia (Karina) has joined the Jakarta Archdiocese in distributing aid to people hard hit by floods that have killed dozens of people in and around Indonesia’s capital. Ucanews.org reported the floods are considered among the worst to have hit the Indonesian capital and its suburbs since records […]

2019 in review

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A look back at the events and images from the past year in the Diocese of Honolulu Compiled by Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Here is a month-by-month review of the Catholic news in Hawaii in 2019 as reported in the Hawaii Catholic Herald. January A landslide on the Kalaupapa trail, which was discovered on […]

New portraits of Hawaii’s saints stand out above the cathedral’s altar

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By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Two new faces can be seen in the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. Specially commissioned portraits of St. Marianne Cope and St. Damien de Veuster went up in December on each side of the crucifixion scene on the high altar. The new paintings depict the two Hawaii […]

Red Mass speaker is a millennial youth and young adult minister

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Next month’s Red Mass speaker will be atypical. Instead of the usual bishop, cardinal or established community leader, the congregation of politicians and other civic leaders on Jan. 14 in Honolulu’s Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace will hear the views of a local lay millennial. Not that […]