VATICAN CITY — Easter is a feast of hope, a celebration of God’s mercy and a call to pray for and assist all who suffer, Pope Francis said before giving his solemn blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world).
Kathleen T. Choi: The broken bell
Take any large group of people and test their intelligence. About 10 percent will score poorly. About 10 percent will do astonishingly well. The rest of us will cluster in the middle. Make a graph of the results, and you’ll see a drawing that looks like a bell.
Murdered priest called ‘martyr of truth’
WORCESTER, Mass. — A Congolese priest serving in the U.S. said he believes his colleague, a Boston University alumnus gunned down in Congo, was “a martyr of the truth.”
Parish raises $3.4 million for new Kapolei church
Catholics in West Oahu will soon have a big new church to call their spiritual home, thanks to the success of “Building Hope and Community for Generations,” St. Jude Church’s capital campaign.
Father William J. Byron SJ: What is God like?
There are two abiding and important religious questions, both significant but one more important than the other, that we tend to confuse in their order of importance. The first is, “What is God like?”
‘Languages of Love’ presentation offered on Maui
WAILUKU — Worldwide Marriage Encounter will present “Languages of Love” — a session explaining the ways love is expressed — 9 a.m.-2 p.m. April 16 at the St. Anthony Church Center in Wailuku. Couples will have the opportunity to learn their primary love language and that of their spouses. The love languages include: words of […]
With Mother Angelica ‘God was full of surprises’
HANCEVILLE, Ala. — With Mother Angelica having been essentially bedridden for 15 years following a series of strokes in 2001, staff at the Eternal Word Television Network and members of her order, the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, had plenty of time to plan and prepare for her funeral.
Bishop believes kidnapped Salesian still alive
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The bishop who leads the apostolic vicariate that includes Yemen said he has “strong indications” that Salesian Father Tom Uzhunnalil “is still alive in the hands of his kidnappers.” Bishop Paul Hinder, head of the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia, told Catholic News Service March 28, […]
Tony Magliano: Christian genocide is happening
MAKING A DIFFERENCE For many of us who strive to seriously practice faith in Jesus Christ, and to extend that practice out into the marketplace, the political square and society at large, persecution rarely means more than being ridiculed, verbally harassed, and to a certain degree socially and politically marginalized. But for so many other […]
Father William Shannon, diocesan priest: The spirit of minority
Often, as I drive to work in downtown Honolulu, I see people standing out on the street mixed in with the fast-paced successful business personnel and wonder, “What is his or her circumstance? Probably, he or she is homeless.” There are others that can be seen pushing carts filled with their belongings or groceries oblivious to the surroundings. These people literally live on the edge of society and can be very much forgotten. Working with seminarians, it is the spirit of minority that I would like to impart to them.
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