Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Catholic schools diverge over status of teachers in same-sex unions

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By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Two Catholic high schools in the Indianapolis Archdiocese took different actions in late June over employees who are in same-sex marriages. Cathedral Catholic High School announced June 24 that it was firing a gay teacher to avoid “forfeiting” its Catholic identity just three days after the Indianapolis […]

Vatican to open tombs looking for young woman missing since 1983

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Vatican City State tribunal has ordered the opening of two tombs in a small Vatican cemetery at the request of the family of Emanuela Orlandi, a young woman who disappeared in 1983. Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican City resident and the daughter of a Vatican employee, […]

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, a hands-on children’s religious education program, is taking root in Hawaii

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‘The child in all of us’ By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald On a sunny weekday morning in June, preschoolers at Mary, Star of the Sea Early Learning Center in Waialae-Kahala were busy working at their “free choice” activities out on the school lanai — scooping from a water table, playing house, building with blocks. […]

Photos: Taking Jesus to the streets

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Anthony Selvanthan of the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, leads the one-and-a-half mile procession through the streets of Honolulu from the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa to the cathedral basilica, on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, otherwise known as Corpus Christi, June 23. Altar servers join in the procession. Deacon […]

St. ‘Guy Next Door’: U.S. bishops affirm diocese’s effort for Michigan man’s canonization cause

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By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service BALTIMORE — The U.S. bishops, after being consulted about the sainthood cause of a man who, except for service in World War II, spent his life in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, gave vocal assent June 12 for the Diocese of Marquette to continue to pursue the cause. Hearing no nays […]

Sister Maria Emma Quijada, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of the Philippines: My mission is completed

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald It has been 27 years since I started my mission in Hawaii. I have loved being with the people, my community and everyone I met. From my first assignment of teaching at St. John the Baptist School in Kalihi onward to the […]

Dutch priest critical of ‘euthanasia death’ reports of teen

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By Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service OXFORD, England — A senior Dutch priest criticized media reports on the death of a teenager experiencing depression, accusing foreign media of “sensationalizing euthanasia” in his country. “It’s difficult to comprehend how anyone could abandon life so tragically,” said Msgr. Hans Pauw, episcopal vicar for youth affairs in the […]

Pope advances sainthood causes for U.S. priest, founder of Hawaii’s Dominicans

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis advanced the sainthood cause of Father Augustus Tolton, who was the first African American diocesan priest in the United States and founder of the first black Catholic parish in Chicago. Signing decrees issued by the Congregation for Saints’ Causes June 11, Pope Francis did […]