By George Brosky This is a true-life experience I had while on a business trip to Kalaupapa, Molokai, 50 years ago. I worked as a drug detailman calling upon doctors to inform them how to use the latest company drug. To go to Kalaupapa, you had to fly on a small two-engine Beechcraft plane since […]
Official notices: Nov. 3, 2017
Bishop’s calendar Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate] November 3, 9:00 am, St. Francis Healthcare System Board of Directors, Liliha Campus. November 5, 8:30 am, Mass at Holy Family Parish, Honolulu. [With Order of Malta, Veterans Day observance] November 7-10, National Assembly of Filipino Priests USA, Houston, Texas. November 13-15, Fall […]
Reader contribution: Infinite God, finite people
By Tom Dinell We humans have a problem trying to grasp the infinite. We are finite. Our language is finite. And yet we, including me, seek to describe a God who is so far beyond us that our words fail us. “As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways […]
Christina Capecchi: No baby, but still giving thanks
TWENTY SOMETHING Even before she was married, Emily Stimpson Chapman asked for baby prayers. “I’d be in an antique store buying little trinkets for the wedding decorations, and I would be asking strangers: Pray that we have a baby!’” she said. “If I’ve talked to you over the past two years, I’ve asked you to […]
Father John Catoir: Private conscience and the church
The late Bishop Fulton Sheen explained that there are two kinds of truths: “Outer truths, which we master, like the distance of the sun from the earth; and inner truths, which master us; for example: God is merciful to the penitent. Inner truths affect a person’s destiny, like a vocational calling; they are matters of […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Do prayers change God’s mind?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I’m confused about something and would be grateful for your help. Does prayer change God’s mind? Can someone be moved to the head of the line if we pray hard enough? (Cuba, Missouri) A: To answer this question, we first need to admit our limitations. I cannot pretend to know the mind […]
John Garvey: Making and renewing vows
INTELLECT AND VIRTUE Last week a friend invited my wife and me to join her in celebrating the 50th anniversary of her perpetual vows. It was a simple but moving ceremony. There was a Mass with guests and members of her religious community. At the offertory she renewed her vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Follow the Lord in confidence
31ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Malachi 1:14b-2:2b, 8-10; 1 Thessalonians 2:7b-9, 13; Matthew 23:1-12 The Book of Malachi provides this weekend’s first reading. The prophet’s name, Malachi, reveals his role. In Hebrew it means “messenger of God.” As a prophet, he brought God’s message to the people. Often in prophetic writings, as in this weekend’s […]
Christian life is a love story with God, says pope, proclaiming 35 new saints
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Like the Catholic Church’s newest saints, Christians are called to live their faith as a love story with God who wants a relationship that is “more than that of devoted subjects with their king,” Pope Francis said. Without a loving relationship with God, Christian life […]
Marianists celebrate 200 years of order’s foundation
Story and photos by Darlene J.M. Dela Cruz Hawaii Catholic Herald On Oct. 2, 1817, French priest Blessed William Joseph Chaminade, with three professional teachers, two seminarians and two artisans, started a “congregation” dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Two hundred years later, on Oct. 2, 2017, Marianist priests and brothers around the world marked […]
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