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 […]
Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: April 20, 2018
Greetings, quizarians, and welcome to your latest mental challenge. We are still immersed in the great season of Easter, so some of my questions reflect that. Otherwise, we have a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Good luck! 1. Saints The feast day of St. Mark, the evangelist, is April 25. St. […]
Photo: Korean bishop visits
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 […]
Bishop Larry Silva: A love that has conquered death
EASTER VIGIL/EASTER SUNDAY Here is the prepared text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily delivered on the Easter Vigil, March 31, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa; and Easter Sunday, April 1, at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. It is no secret that our world is filled with bad news. While our recent […]
Scenes from Holy Week 2018
Bishop Larry Silva: Ironies, contradictions and lies
REGARDING HB-2739: ‘OUR CARE, OUR CHOICE ACT’ Etymology, the study of the roots of words, has always fascinated me. Take the word “autonomy,” which derives from the Greek “auto,” meaning “self” and “nomos,” meaning “law.” To be autonomous then is to live by one’s own law. The recent discussions regarding the HB-2739, the so-called “Our […]
Father Patrick Kelly: Why Sister Jean and Father Rob matter
COMMENTARY Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt and Father Rob Hagan have been getting a lot of attention these days in the national media. They are the chaplains for the two Catholic teams, Loyola University Chicago and Villanova University, who played in the Final Four of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament last weekend.E It would be possible […]
Pope Francis: Easter shows the power of love, which renews the world
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Easter makes it clear that in the life of Jesus, but also in the lives of modern men and women, “death, solitude and fear” do not have the last word, Pope Francis said before giving his Easter blessing. “The words heard by the women at the […]
Bishop’s Circle annual appeal two thirds of way to goal
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald With three more months to go on the 2017-2018 Bishop’s Circle appeal, the annual diocesan large-donor campaign is two-thirds of the way to its $350,000 goal. As of March 22, it has collected $230,000, 10 percent more than the appeal received at this time last year, said Mark Clark, […]
Catholic Charities dedicates phase two of affordable housing project for seniors
Catholic Charities Housing Development Corporation on March 7 dedicated the second phase of its Meheula Vista senior affordable rental housing development in Mililani Mauka. A blessing and groundbreaking also marked the start of phase three of the project. Meheula Vista provides low-income seniors with an affordable permanent living option, offering complementary amenities so residents can […]
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