Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Greg Erlandson: Crisis: Church authorities and clergy sex abuse

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COMMENTARY When Catholic News Service posted a short video of the Pennsylvania attorney general’s Aug. 14 news conference announcing a grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse in six dioceses, its editors had to add a warning about the graphic language viewers would hear. The actual 900-page report chronicling 70 years of child sexual abuse […]

Effie Caldarola: What’s a Catholic to do?

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FOR THE JOURNEY The charges leveled against a former cardinal, Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, are sickening and almost unbearable to read. It’s horrible enough that former seminarians allege he invited them to a beach house with the certainty that he was always inviting one extra who would have to share his bed. But then comes […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: His love never ends

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21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Joshua 24:-2a, 15-17, 18b; Ephesians 5:21-32; John 6:60-69 The Book of Joshua provides this weekend’s first reading. The book draws its name from the ancient Israelite leader, Joshua, who followed Moses and actually guided the Hebrews into the land God had promised them. Fleeing from slavery in Egypt to settlement […]

Festa 2018 is a celebration of Portuguese culture

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Festa 2018, a festival of Portuguese food, music, crafts and more, will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sept. 22, at Hawaii’s Plantation Village, 94-695 Waipahu Street in Waipahu, according to the organizers’ online flyer. The event will feature special appearances by Frank de Lima, Frank Suster, Na Ohana O Ke Anuenue, Ukulele […]

Archbishop coming to promote the canonization of Ilocano bishop

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald A Philippines bishop will be in Hawaii next month to celebrate a Mass to promote the cause of sainthood for Bishop Alfredo F. Verzosa, the first Catholic bishop to hail from the country’s northern Ilocos region where many of Hawaii’s Philippine immigrants have roots. Archbishop emeritus of Ernesto A. […]

Pope: Victims’ outcry more powerful than efforts to silence them

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — “No effort must be spared” to prevent future cases of clerical sexual abuse and “to prevent the possibility of their being covered up,” Pope Francis said in a letter addressed “to the people of God.” “I acknowledge once more the suffering endured by many minors due […]