QUESTION CORNER Q: Why is it that Christians feel that the coming of Jesus freed them from the 613 prescripts that Jews count in the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) and that they can adhere only to the Ten Commandments? Why those 10 and not the other 613? (Albany, New York) A: […]
‘Soft’ ethnic cleansing of Christians reported in northeast Syria
By Dale Gavlak Catholic News Service AMMAN, Jordan — Despite Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly assuring U.S. Vice President Mike Pence that his forces would not persecute religious minorities in northeastern Syria, people on the ground say minorities are being targeted. Amnesty International reported that the Turkish military and its allied Syrian armed groups […]
Pope apologizes that statues were vandalized
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis apologized that two men entered a church near the Vatican, took controversial statues and tossed them into the Tiber River. “As bishop of the diocese, I apologize,” he said Oct. 25, the first time the full membership of the Synod of Bishops for […]
With papal decree, Vatican Archives no longer ‘secret’
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Citing the negative misinterpretations that the word “secret” implies, Pope Francis has changed the name of the Vatican Secret Archives to the Vatican Apostolic Archives. In a decree, issued “motu proprio,” on the pope’s own initiative, and published by the Vatican Oct. 28, the pope […]
Guide answers question: What’s a healthy parish?
The Diocese of Honolulu has created a guide to help pastors and parish leadership measure how well they’re doing according to “best practice benchmarks.” The diocese will also use the guide to do annual parish assessments and provide help as needed. A task force made up of Presbyteral Council members (priests who advise Bishop Larry […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Rich man up a tree
31ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Wisdom 11:22-12:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:11-2:2; Luke 19:1-10 The Book of Wisdom provides this weekend’s first reading. An essential component in ancient Hebrew belief, and contemporary Jewish thought as well, is that God is the Creator of all, and the author of all life. The emphasis by Pope Francis upon the […]
The story of a tree
100 years ago this month, the kiawe planted by the first Catholic missionary was cut down. Its descendants live on. By Father Louis H. Yim Special to the Hawaii Catholic Herald This is the story of a tree God had placed in the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiians call the tree “kiawe.” Some arborists prefer “prosopis chilensis.” […]
St. Damien of Monongahela
Ten years after his canonization, the Molokai saint has several Mainland parishes named in his honor By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald The story of St. Damien de Veuster has been spreading since his 2009 canonization. That includes the naming of several parishes on the Mainland after the Belgian-born, Hawaii priest who served Hansen’s disease […]
Respect for the indigenous
Ministry, ecology, mission are the main themes for the first week of the Synod for the Amazon By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The first week of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon saw support for the priestly ordination of married indigenous men, impassioned pleas for respect for indigenous culture and […]
Father Robert Stark, SSS: The rich man and the poor man
HOMILY Here is the text of a homily by Father Robert Stark, director of the Office for Social Ministry for the Diocese of Honolulu and regional coordinator for the Vatican’s Section on Migrants and Refugees, given Sept. 29, the Feast of the Archangels and the World Day for Migrants and Refugees, at St. Raphael Parish […]
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