A Big Island breadfruit planting project is spotlighted in the Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl campaign By Darlene J.M. Dela Cruz Hawaii Catholic Herald India. Zambia. El Salvador. Mexico. Ethiopia. Hawaii? In this year’s Lenten Rice Bowl campaign, Catholic Relief Services is shining the spotlight on a grassroots outreach project on the Big Island among […]
Hawaii Catholic leaders add to backlash against Trump’s refugee executive order
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald A number of Catholic leaders in Hawaii have added their voices to the critical backlash against President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order banning immigrants and refugees from seven mostly Muslim nations. The directive created a firestorm of controversy as it initially blocked the entry of refugees slated to […]
Bishop happy with choice of new seminary president
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva is pleased with the selection of Jesuit Father George F. Schultze as president-rector and vice chancellor of St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California, where seminarians for the Diocese of Honolulu earn their theology degrees. Archbishop of San Francisco Salvatore Cordileone, chancellor of the […]
New diocesan directory lists half of Hawaii’s parish priests as foreign
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Almost half of the priests manning Hawaii’s Catholic parishes come from foreign countries according to the 2017 Directory of the Catholic Church in Hawaii. There are 120 priests in active ministry in the Islands. They include 34 who belong to the Diocese of Honolulu, 33 from outside, mostly foreign, […]
Mary Adamski: LOL
VIEW FROM THE PEW The perfect, definitive model for a meaningful Lent. I’ve got it. Hang in there, I’ll share it. In my first take of this column, I took hundreds of words to get to the punchline. Wise and witty words they were. Sure to lose readers the more I wandered on through my […]
Ash Wednesday: Rituals and symbols
One way to prepare ourselves for Lent is to better understand the day that starts it all: Ash Wednesday. The words spoken while ashes are pressed on our foreheads ignite us like the opening gun at a race. We’re off. A pilgrimage has begun. Ash Wednesday is a rally of sorts, to give people encouragement […]
Vatican summit participants vow efforts to stop organ trafficking
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — A Vatican summit on organ trafficking called for greater efforts to prevent the exploitation of those vulnerable to corrupt health professionals and criminal networks making the sale of human organs possible. “We, the undersigned participants of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences summit on organ trafficking, resolve […]
Effie Caldarola: Our refugee family
ON THE JOURNEY On a recent Sunday, I delivered fresh produce to the Syrian refugee family my Catholic community sponsored this year. As I parked outside the apartment building, eager little faces were watching for me from the second-floor window, and soon the three oldest children of the family dashed from the door below to […]
In tragedy, family turns to saints, starts company to share devotion
By Connor Bergeron Catholic News Service ARLINGTON, Va. — Small, colorful plastic Catholic saints can be seen hanging from key chains, zippers and backpacks alongside Hello Kitty and Pokemon. They’re called Tiny Saints, and founders Joe and Colleen Klinker conceived the idea as they explained the death of their stillborn daughter, Melody Paige, to her […]
China, Vatican reach consensus on appointing bishops
By Barb Fraze Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — China and the Vatican have reached consensus on the appointment of bishops, which will lead to the resolution of other outstanding problems, said Hong Kong Cardinal John Tong. “From now on, there will be no more the crisis of a division between the open and underground communities […]
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