Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Effie Caldarola: Much is required

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FOR THE ROAD Every Saturday, a local newspaper features excerpts from Sunday homilies, including occasional Catholic ones, in a section called “From the Pulpit.” Easter weekend featured a Unitarian minister’s reflections. Unitarians profess a free search for truth and meaning and do not assert any creed. Needless to say, their theology can be very different […]

Terminally ill mother: Euthanasia push robs ‘friends, family of joy’

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By Marilyn Rodrigues Catholic News Service SYDNEY — In March, as Anna Corry lay dying, she sent out a request to speak publicly about her opposition to euthanasia. The 50-year-old former nursing educator had endured an aggressive type of breast cancer since her diagnosis in January 2016. This January, she and her husband, Martin, a […]

Marianist Father Raymond Malley celebrating 50th years of ordination

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Marianist Father Raymond E. Malley, who served for many years in Hawaii as a teacher, school chaplain and pastor, is celebrating his 50th anniversary of ordination at the Marianist Center in Cupertino, Calif. The San Francisco native, made his first profession in the Society of Mary, also known as Marianists, on Aug. 15, 1959, in […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Why did the pope celebrate Stephen Hawking?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: Stephen Hawking died recently. As I understand it, Professor Hawking claimed to have proven that God does not exist. And yet the pope met with him and recognized his studies; why would the pope do that and celebrate an atheist? (central Virginia) A: Professor Stephen Hawking, the renowned British theoretical physicist, died […]

Trevi Fountain coins to continue bringing fortune to Rome’s needy

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By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — While millions of tourists throw a coin over their shoulder into Rome’s Trevi Fountain hoping to return to Rome one day, the money scooped out of the fountain each week offers more concrete hope to the city’s poor. Rome’s city council extended an agreement March […]

Photo: Korean bishop visits

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Bishop Lazzaro Heung Sik You, fourth from left, of the South Korean Diocese of Daejeon, poses with other priests of his diocese April 10 at Chaminade University’s Sullivan Family Library where Korean artist Sister Benedicta Ha of the Congregation of Divine Providence, at the bishop’s left, opened her 18th solo oriental brush paint exhibition. Every […]