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 […]
Mary Adamski: Of bones, memories and the weary pilgrim
VIEW FROM THE PEW Relics have been on my mind lately. I’m in a meditative mood not a morbid one as I think about our human tendency to hold onto a memory, a piece of history by clinging to a thing. It’s not just me reviewing my clutter, our landscape is full of memorials and […]
50 years as the soul of a bustling city neighborhood
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Like a round peg in a square hole, Sts. Peter and Paul Church stands out in Honolulu’s Ala Moana district. In a good way. The circular church rises right off the sidewalk on busy Kaheka Street, the “soul” of a neighborhood of towering condos, commercial buildings, retail outlets and […]
New Catholic Charities head has affordable housing background
Catholic Charities Hawaii has selected as its new chief executive officer and president a Washington state man with two decades of leadership in the development and operations of affordable housing. Robert “Rob” Van Tassell starts Nov. 4. He is currently vice president of Catholic Housing Services of Western Washington, where he oversees the housing and […]
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