By Zita Ballinger Fletcher Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Sexual assault victims say they were hurt not only by individual priests, but by church officials and ordinary Catholics who treated them with intolerance and indifference. Four survivors of sexual assaults by priests shared their stories with Catholic News Service. They are: Jim VanSickle and Mike […]
Our Lady of Sorrows Church to celebrate feast day with rosaries, novenas, Masses
Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Wahiawa has scheduled several events to celebrate their patroness, Our Lady of Sorrows, and the 90th anniversary of the parish’s beginnings as a mission church. From Sept. 6 through Sept. 14, various parish ministries, organizations and councils will lead the rosary and novena each evening prior to the […]
FATHER EDWARD TURNER | 1930-2018
Korean War veteran was founding pastor of Resurrection Parish By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Father Edward Turner, the Korean War veteran who was the founding pastor of Resurrection of the Lord Parish in Waipio, died Aug. 7 at the Veteran’s Medical Center in Palm Beach County, Florida, where he was retired. He was 88 […]
Mary Adamski: ‘All generations will call me blessed’
VIEW FROM THE PEW A wonderful time was had by all at a celebration memorializing the death of a woman whose remarkable life was a legacy to Hawaii, to the church and to people who make care of the poor and afflicted their career, vocation or goal in life. We all belted out a melody […]
Saint Francis selects first layman as new head of school
Hawaii Catholic Herald Saint Francis School in Manoa has named its first male head of school in its 94-year history. The school’s board of directors selected Honolulu-born Casey M. Asato after a nationwide search began in early June. Asato, 46, is also the first person to lead the school who is not a member of […]
Sister Marie Rosso, Maryknoll Sisters: We all have a light within us
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald It is a missionary thing to accept people for who they are. To ask the questions that may help them to think differently. Or to give them something to ‘up the ante’ in realizing that everyone has goodness within them. In my […]
Greg Erlandson: Crisis: Church authorities and clergy sex abuse
COMMENTARY When Catholic News Service posted a short video of the Pennsylvania attorney general’s Aug. 14 news conference announcing a grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse in six dioceses, its editors had to add a warning about the graphic language viewers would hear. The actual 900-page report chronicling 70 years of child sexual abuse […]
Effie Caldarola: What’s a Catholic to do?
FOR THE JOURNEY The charges leveled against a former cardinal, Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, are sickening and almost unbearable to read. It’s horrible enough that former seminarians allege he invited them to a beach house with the certainty that he was always inviting one extra who would have to share his bed. But then comes […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Why is Michael a saint?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I am not a Christian, but I enjoy reading your column and learn a lot from it. I am hoping that you can explain why St. Michael the Archangel is regarded as a saint. I have always been under the impression that a saint is a deceased believer who is recognized by […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: His love never ends
21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Joshua 24:-2a, 15-17, 18b; Ephesians 5:21-32; John 6:60-69 The Book of Joshua provides this weekend’s first reading. The book draws its name from the ancient Israelite leader, Joshua, who followed Moses and actually guided the Hebrews into the land God had promised them. Fleeing from slavery in Egypt to settlement […]
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