Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Day symposium to address suicide, human trafficking, other life issues

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The second annual Life Symposium, “Na Mo‘olelo Ola: Living Stories,” 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Aug. 17, at the KROC Center in Kapolei will feature speakers on difficult life topics including suicide, human trafficking, death and dying, and homelessness. The event will address these issues through the lens of Scripture, church teaching, and personal testimonies. The day […]

Training future priests is expensive

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Annual collection needs more support to cover Hawaii seminarian education By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Any parent who has saved or paid for a child’s higher education knows that learning doesn’t come cheap. That remains the case for the Diocese of Honolulu to support its seminarians through the coursework and degrees that will make […]

SISTER MARIE TANG OF THE CHILD JESUS | 1924-2018

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Quiet, joyful Carmelite was one of Hawaii’s original seven By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald “A time to mourn …” Sister Elizabeth DeJesus, reading from the famous passage from Ecclesiastes at the funeral Mass of fellow Carmelite Sister Marie Tang, followed that line with an emotional pause, before continuing, “… and a time to dance.” […]

Yearly seminarian retreat: Soaking in the solitude of Kalaupapa

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For the past two summers, Diocese of Honolulu vocations director Father Rheo Ofalsa and Bishop Larry Silva have traveled with diocesan seminarians to the Kalaupapa peninsula for a five-day retreat. The trip includes Mass, prayer time and recreation. It also allows the seminarians to deepen their spiritual formation and their knowledge of Bishop Silva and […]

Pregnancy center free speech ruling seen as good news for Hawaii case

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald The U.S. Supreme Court 5-4 ruling June 26 that a California law that placed requirements on crisis pregnancy centers that oppose abortion violated the First Amendment has pleased a Hawaii lawyer fighting a similar Hawaii law. “Everybody in the country ought to be celebrating” the court’s decision, attorney James […]

Pope Francis’ World Day of Poor message: Listen to those in need

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — How is it that God in heaven can hear the cries of the poor, but so many people watching or standing nearby either cannot or just do not care, Pope Francis asked. People must make “a serious examination of conscience to understand whether we are really […]

50TH ANNIVERSARY: ‘Humanae Vitae’

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Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical reaffirmed the church’s moral teaching on the sanctity of life, married love, the procreative and unitive nature of conjugal relations, responsible parenthood and its rejection of artificial contraception By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Fifty years ago, an encyclical was released affirming a long-held teaching of the Catholic Church, […]