Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Maui March for Life to feature physician speaker

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The executive director of the American Association of Prolife Obstetricians and Gynecologists will be the guest speaker at a three-day event, Jan. 24-26, marking the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Decision that legalized abortion in America. The Annual Maui March for Life and Prayer Service is being organized by […]

School concert to add a twist to Christmas songs

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The five instrumental and vocal musical ensembles of St. John Vianney School in Kailua will present the free holiday concert “Christmas with a Twist,” Dec. 6, at 6:30 p.m. The school music director Sarah Young will conduct the school’s Beginning Band, Beginning Orchestra, Senior Choir, Concert Band and Concert Orchestra. The ensembles are made up […]

Sister Mary Mark Berdin, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: My middle name is survivor

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Mali Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald From being assigned from the Philippines to Kauai to Oahu in the 1970s, to Africa in the 1980s and back and forth between the Philippines, Oahu and San Francisco, returning to Oahu in the years after, I think sometimes that my middle […]

Father Eugene Hemrick: Celebrating Advent to the fullest

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THE HUMAN SIDE How might we celebrate our best Advent? What might we do to experience its tranquility, while at the same time its intensity? Philosopher Josef Pieper would suggest spending contemplative moments during the season. And how might this happen? Some time ago, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington had […]

FATHER RONALD JOHN BURKE | 1945-2018

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Former Navy chaplain served Honolulu diocese for 8 years By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Father Ronald John Burke, a retired U.S. Navy chaplain from Detroit who served as a parish priest in Hawaii from the 1980s until 2002, died Oct. 30 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was 74 and a priest for 46 […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: May a Lutheran receive Catholic Eucharist? Can you confess online?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: One of my sisters who is Lutheran recently moved to an area where there is no Lutheran church, so she started attending Mass at a nearby Catholic parish. She has been receiving the Eucharist at Mass even though she is not Catholic. She says that she asked the Catholic pastor and he […]

Photo: Honoring the Vietnamese martyrs

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Members of Hawaii’s Vietnamese Catholic Community carry a flower-laden platform carrying three reliquaries in a procession at the Mass for the feast of the Vietnamese Martyrs at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa in Honolulu, Nov. 25. Bishop Larry Silva celebrated the afternoon Mass commemorating 117 martyrs who were canonized by St. John Paul II on […]