Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Making your end-of-life decisions in advance

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CATHOLIC ADVANCE HEALTHCARE DIRECTIVE Gain peace of mind by answering the hard questions about prolonged care, treatment and pain relief ahead of time By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Your elderly mother is wheeled into the hospital emergency room with a broken hip. You’re handling her paperwork. Someone from the hospital asks if she has […]

Pope Francis joins prayers for victims of bloody weekend

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By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Pope Francis joined Catholic Church leaders expressing sorrow after back-to-back mass shootings in the United States left at least 31 dead and dozens injured in Texas and Ohio Aug. 3 and 4. After the prayer called the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square on Aug. 4, the pope […]

First annual ‘Sun Light, Sun Bright’ filled with hugs and kisses

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald It was a beautiful day. The first annual “Sun Light, Sun Bright,” summer reunion for women inmates and their children at the Women’s Community Correctional Center in Kailua, July 27, sponsored by the diocesan prison ministry, was filled with hugs and kisses. According to event coordinator Toni Bissen, 16 […]

Cause opens for beatification of 20th century ‘Damien’

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By Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service MANCHESTER, England — The Vatican has allowed the bishops of Zimbabwe to open the sainthood cause of a British missionary murdered after he refused to abandon his ministry to people with Hansen’s disease during the country’s civil war. The cause for the beatification of John Bradburne, a lay member […]

Father Clement Beeri, diocesan priest: The joys of interacting with the people

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald One of the greatest joys of being a parish priest is interacting with the people. For example, I am constantly amazed when people are edified by certain words or scriptural passages I might mention in the homily which they tell me about […]

Official notices: Aug. 9, 2019

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Bishop’s calendar Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate] August 9, 10:00 am, Blessing of Portuguese Home at Waipahu Plantation Village, Waipahu. August 10, Pilgrimage to Kalaupapa, Molokai. August 11, 8:30 am, Mass and Installation of Reverend Edwin Conselva, M.S. as Pastor of St. Theresa Parish, Kekaha, with Confirmation and First Holy […]

Pilgrims find healing, renewal in the waters of Alberta’s Lac Ste. Anne

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By Kyle Greenham Catholic News Service LAC STE. ANNE, Alberta — As she battled the aching pains of stage 4 intestinal cancer, Evelyn Mercredi slowly lifted herself from her walker and stepped into the waters of Lac Ste. Anne expecting — and receiving — healing. “I’ve been suffering so much, it was so hard just […]

Book review: ‘GOD’S QUAD’

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Hawaii campus minister co-edits award-winning book on ‘student church’ By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald “God’s Quad: Small Faith Communities on Campus and Beyond,” Kevin Ahern and Christopher Derige Malano, Orbis Books, 228 pages, $20 “God’s Quad: Small Faith Communities on Campus and Beyond,” is a 2018 book filled with tangible essays focusing on “the […]