Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Father Eugene Hemrick: A peaceful 2019 to you

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THE HUMAN SIDE No matter where we look, peace is a rare commodity. How then can the new year be more peaceful? Start the year with avoiding certain behaviors and doubling up on civility. St. Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians often deals with adversity in his communities. Stop your strife and avoid jealousy, he counseled. […]

Growing Secular Carmelite group sponsoring seminar on spirituality

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Hawaii’s growing community of Secular Carmelites is sponsoring a retreat-seminar on Carmelite spirituality, open to all, in January at the Carmelite monastery in Kaneohe. Hawaii has one Carmelite monastery, Carmel of the Holy Trinity, on the grounds of St. Stephen Diocesan Center, where nuns live in a cloistered community. Hawaii also has a Secular Order […]

U.S. returns church bells to Philippines after more than 100 years

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By Catholic News Service MANILA, Philippines — After more than a century, the United States government has returned three church bells swiped by American forces as war booty from the central Philippine town of Balangiga. Ucanews.com reported that, after years of repeated demands for their return, the bells were brought home aboard a U.S. military […]

Talk story: Celebrating ohana at Christmas

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OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Brothers and sisters: Put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another … And let the peace of Christ control your hearts, and provide the peace into which you were also called in one body.” (Col 3:12-15 — Feast of the Holy Family) […]

Official notices: Dec. 28, 2018

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Bishop’s calendar Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate] December 28, 6:00 pm, Ordination to the diaconate (transitional) of Anh (Vincent) Vu, Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, Kalihi. January 2-8, Retreat for U.S. Bishops, Mundelein Seminary, Illinois. January 7-11, Annual Retreat for Priests, St. Stephen Diocesan Center, Kaneohe. Announcements/Appointments Bishop Silva has appointed […]

Cardinal Pell found guilty of sex abuse, expected to appeal, reports say

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By Catholic News Service MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian Cardinal George Pell reportedly has been found guilty on five charges related to serious sexual misconduct involving two boys at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne in the 1990s. The trial, the specific charges, the testimony and almost all other details involving the accusations against the 77-year-old cardinal […]

Brett Robinson: Matters of life and death

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THE THEOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY Of the many technologies that have changed the course of culture, contraception may be the most pernicious. In his landmark encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” St. Paul VI foresaw that the rise of artificial birth control methods would also lead to more marital infidelity, the lowering of moral standards and the objectification of […]