Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Photo: Priests on retreat

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Benedictine Abbot Jeremy Driscoll from Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon gives a morning talk on Jan. 11, the last day of the Diocese of Honolulu’s annual priest retreat at St. Stephen Diocesan Center in Kaneohe. Abbot Driscoll was the director of the Jan. 7-11 retreat. (HCH photo | Anna Weaver)  

Photos: Installation of pastors

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Bishop Larry Silva installed two new Oahu pastors in mid-January, both among the newest and youngest of the Diocese of Honolulu’s priests. Pictured above, Father Alfred Guerrero is the new pastor of the Newman Center/Holy Spirit Parish at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, following the retirement of outgoing pastor, Father Jack Ryan. Father Guerrero’s installation Mass […]

Heralding back: Jan. 25, 2018

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Jan. 31, 1969 Training for their future For years Catholic Social Services has been recognized by University of Hawaii’s School of Social Work and Queens Psychiatric Residents Training Program as an Agency with high professional standards. Professional people seeking further training are placed with the Agency and […]

Bishop Larry Silva: Full immersion

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  WITNESS TO JESUS | BAPTISM OF THE LORD Here is the text of the homily for the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, delivered Jan. 12 and 13, at Sacred Heart Church, Punahou, for the installation of the pastor; at St. Stephen Diocesan Center, Kaneohe, for the institution of lectors for the deacon […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: May I give to Shriners Hospitals? When should I put away my Advent wreath?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: Can Catholics morally give donations to the Shriners Hospitals? Their ads are very convincing, but aren’t the Shriners Masons? (Surry, Virginia) A: All Shriners are Masons. (The reverse, though, is not true. Shriners International began in 1872 as a spinoff of Freemasonry, with philanthropy as one of its principal goals.) Shriners Hospitals […]

Mary Adamski: Lead us not into contention

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VIEW FROM THE PEW OMG! (Nothing irreverent intended: you know that’s just text-speak for gasp.) He’s done it again. It was Jan. 16 in his weekly public audience at the Vatican that Pope Francis again suggested that we could reword the Lord’s Prayer a bit. The last time the pope opined publicly about the wording […]

Catholic parish of teen who escaped abduction credits power of prayer

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By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — For nearly three months, parishioners at St. Peter Catholic Church in Cameron, Wisconsin, were praying for the safe return of one of their own — 13-year-old Jayme Closs. When parishioners heard the news that she had escaped her abductor Jan. 10 and was safe, their prayers switched […]