Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Diocesan religious education director elected VP of catechetical conference

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  Jayne Mondoy, director of the diocesan Office of Religious Education and Faith Formation, was elected vice-president of the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership at the organization’s annual conference May 31 in Chicago. Her term is for three years. Mondoy ends a three-year term as the organization’s treasurer. Mondoy has been an active participant with […]

Photo: Baccalaureate Mass

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Participants in Bishop Larry Silva’s second annual Baccalaureate Mass for middle and high school graduates May 24 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa pose with the bishop in the church sanctuary after Mass. Nineteen graduates from Central Middle School, Damien Memorial School, McKinley High School, Moanalua Middle School and Farrington High School, as well as […]

Official notices: June 15, 2018

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Bishop’s calendar Bishop’s Schedule [Events indicated will be attended by Bishop’s delegate] June 19, 9:00 am, Diocesan Finance Council, Chancery, downtown Honolulu; 12:00 pm, Mass for the 50th Anniversary of the death of Bishop James Sweeney, first Bishop of the Diocese of Honolulu; Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, downtown Honolulu; 4:30 pm, Catholic […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Consider the mustard seed

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11TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Ezekiel 17:22-24; 2 Corinthians 5:6-10; Mark 4:26-34 The first reading for this weekend’s liturgy is from the Book of Ezekiel, who is regarded as one of the great Hebrew prophets. Not interested in themselves, but only in imparting the revelation of God, the prophets rarely left any biographical details about […]

Laura Kelly Fanucci: How to honor fathers with love

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FAITH AT HOME Beer. Golf. TV. Mowing. Burping. Fishing. According to greeting cards in the store aisles, this is all that modern fathers care about. Father’s Day is clogged with lowbrow stereotypes. Dad just wants to hog the remote control, crack a few crass jokes and drink a cold one. He’s not nurturing, caring or […]

Christina Capecchi: Oh, Susanna! Power of baby names

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TWENTY SOMETHING The big news from the Social Security Administration is the ousting of a champion: Liam has dethroned Noah as the nation’s most popular boy name. This was the headline of its newly released baby-name report, an annual synthesis of Social Security card applications from the past year that offers a fascinating cultural statement […]

Co-cathedral-to-cathedral procession commemorates feast of Corpus Christi

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Vicar general Msgr. Gary Secor led the diocese’s annual Corpus Christi street procession from the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa to the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, June 3, the feast of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Msgr. Secor began the celebration with 10:30 a.m. Mass at the […]

Carole Norris Greene: Black culture at a royal wedding!

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COMMENTARY I never saw it coming, a British royal wedding that brought American black culture center stage before the world! This happened May 19 as Prince Henry of Wales, known as Prince Harry, wedded former American actress Rachel Meghan Markle. Now she is the Duchess of Sussex, elevated to stratospheric fame. It was surreal to […]