Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Got questions about the diocese’s plan to confirm 7-year-olds?

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By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Still have questions about the diocese’s upcoming plan to confirm 7-year-olds? You may call your parish. The parish receptionist should have most of the answers, or at least 16 of them. As part of the diocese’s efforts to teach parishioners about upcoming changes in the administration of confirmation, the […]

Heralding back: Sept. 8, 2017

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Sept. 8, 1967 Most Reverend James J. Sweeney, Bishop of Honolulu, visited with the Most Reverend Robert Lucey, Archbishop of San Antonio, at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Tuesday. The archbishop was one of twenty-two observers returning from Vietnam, where they witnessed the recent presidential election. The […]

Catechetical Sunday celebrates the handing down of the faith

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By Jayne Mondoy Special to the Herald Father Manny Hewe, the diocesan vicar for clergy, recounted an experience he had while in the Holy Land. Traveling through the arid countryside, he observed two shepherds conversing. As the shepherds spoke, their flocks merged, forming one large, single flock of sheep. As Father Hewe was pondering how […]

Photo: Browsing for blankets

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U.S. service veterans browse for blankets and bed linens at a household item “give-away” Aug. 16 at the Cathedral Kamiano Center for recently homeless vets eager to refurbish their new, but bare, apartments. The event was organized by Iwie Tamashiro of the diocesan Office for Social Ministries who was asked recently by a Veterans Administration […]

Diocese joining 40 Days for Life campaign

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The diocesan Respect Life Office launches its 40 Days for Life fall campaign, Sept. 27-Nov. 5, by inviting Hawaii parishioners to be beacons of hope to save mothers and their unborn children from abortion, to be witnesses and voices in defense of the vulnerable in their communities. 40 Days for Life is a faith-based effort […]

Cardinal: Priest who fathers child has moral obligation to child, mother

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By Catholic News Service BOSTON — If a Catholic priest violates his vow of celibacy and fathers a child, he has “a moral obligation to step aside from ministry and provide for the care and needs of the mother and the child,” said Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley. “In such a moment, their welfare is […]

Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: Sept. 8, 2017

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Hope your September has set off on a spectacular start, Heraldians. Ready for a new Catholic quiz? I’m geared up with a round of questions to test you on faith-based trivia tidbits that will take you on a travel through our universal church. 1) Saints The feast day of St. Januarius is Sept. 19. In […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Does he need an annulment first?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: I need some clarification on the church’s marriage laws. I am a Catholic currently married to a divorced non-Catholic whose first marriage was not in the Catholic Church. I tried to arrange to marry him in the church, but a parish priest told me that my husband-to-be would need to get his […]