Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Sherry Hayes-Peirce: AI technology helps Instagram tackle bullying

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  CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS Over the next few weeks our kids will be heading back to school. While some look forward to the first day of school, others dread being back on campus. In fact, a recent ABC News report found that nationwide 160,000 kids per day stay home because they are afraid of being […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: How do vegans do Fridays in Lent?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: What do persons who don’t normally eat meat do about the church’s rules on abstinence, such as on the Fridays during Lent? Nowadays, many Catholics are mainly fish eaters anyway, or they are vegans or vegetarians. What can they do to participate in the discipline of the church? (New Middletown, Indiana) A: […]

Effie Caldarola: Together at the potluck

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FOR THE JOURNEY When I was growing up in a small Midwestern farm community, I was vaguely aware of rich folks. There were prosperous lawyers, business owners, Dad’s cousin who owned the grain mill. Our family struggled on a small dryland farm, made more challenging by my dad’s ill health. But as a kid, I […]

Laura Kelly Fanucci: Sharpen your pencils for the school of love

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FAITH AT HOME Did you know the family is a school of love? The Second Vatican Council declared this teaching, St. John Paul II deepened it and Pope Francis affirmed it. Our Catechism of the Catholic Church spells it out clearly: The family is “a community of grace and prayer, a school of human virtues […]

Girl’s science project started the water flowing for town in Kenya

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By Elizabeth Bachmann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — In 2014 a science project sparked the compassion of a 10-year-old girl from Colorado. So, she set out on a walk that would change the lives of an entire town of people in Kenya. From that auspicious day in 2014 to the present, Jennifer Stuckenschneider, partnering with […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Jesus is the key to God’s kingdom

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21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 66:18-21; Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13; Luke 13:22-30 The Book of Isaiah provides the first reading for this weekend. Isaiah is a fascinating book of Scripture. It covers a long period of Hebrew history. Its early chapters deal with events and conditions in the southern Hebrew kingdom of Judah, before the […]

Three Marianist Center fall presentations cover vocations, pope, music

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The Marianist Center of Hawaii, in co-operation with Chaminade University and Saint Louis School, is bringing to the campus three special autumn presentations to nurture the spiritual growth of Hawaii’s diverse people. The first is a morning of recollection with noted Los Angeles Congress speaker Richard Gaillardetz, chairman of the theology department of Boston College. […]

Official notices: Aug. 23, 2019

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Bishop’s calendar Bishop’s schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate.] August 24, 5:00 pm, Mass for Bishop’s Circle Donors, Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, downtown Honolulu. [Msgr. Gary Secor] August 31, 4:00 pm, Mass for the 175th Anniversary of St. John the Baptist Church, Kalihi. [Msgr. Gary Secor] September 1, 4:00 […]

‘Fully alive in the Spirit’ is theme of Basic Christian Community retreat

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The Basic Christian Community of Hawaii, a lay movement, invites its members and guests to its annual retreat at the Benedictine Monastery in Waialua, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28. This year’s theme is “Fully alive in the Spirit” — re-igniting love and passion for Christ, bringing energy, exuberance and confidence in standing firm in […]