Following my wife’s inspiration again, we look at the Patron of the Universal Church, the saint recently added to the main Eucharistic Prayer. Soon, we will celebrate our fathers and for the first time I will be counted among them. I am anxious to see my son face to face. I’m not sure if I […]
Heralding back: June 6, 2014
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — June 5, 1964 Ronald Pang, Mary Magdalen Chun and Carolyn Lee of Maryknoll Grade School received awards in the 1963-64 Ford-Future Scientists of America contest for written reports of their science projects. Over 8,000 project reports were entered in this year’s national contest. Ronald placed first in […]
Father Kenneth Doyle : Why are the Legionaries still around?
Q Recently, some new priests were ordained for the Legionaries of Christ. I had thought that this order was being dissolved due to the scandals created by its founder, Father Marcial Maciel, who committed everything from fraud to pedophilia. Why is the order continuing when its founder was a sociopath whose life was a lie […]
Photo: Masters of their theological domain
Graduates of the Master’s in Pastoral Theology program at Chaminade University of Honolulu pose for a group photo on commencement day, May 12, at the Neal Blaisdell Arena. These graduates, who include deacons and deacon candidates and their wives, and a Catholic Charities Hawaii vice president, earned their degrees as part of an arrangement the […]
Father John Catoir: A great prophet and voice of the church
One of the priests I most admired in the years after my ordination was Msgr. John Tracy Ellis. As a longtime professor at The Catholic University of America, he was known to many as the “dean of American Catholic historians.” During the early 1960s when I was studying at Catholic University for my doctorate in […]
Analysis: Most of the new clergy sex abuse lawsuits are for alleged incidents 40, 50, 60 years old
When the Hawaii state legislature passed a law in 2012 that removed for two years the statute of limitations in cases of sexual abuse of a minor, no one knew exactly what to expect. Would there be a flood of lawsuits? A barrage of accusations? The law did not expressly target the Catholic Church, but […]
Mary Adamski: The greatest of these is charity
Expect another “ta-DAH” announcement any day from city hall about yet another solution to the homeless problem. Oops, do I mean homeless issue? Has problem become politically incorrect? I don’t expect another of those city government lightning strikes to replace tents with flower planters, or haul the last pitiful possessions of people away as trash; […]
150 years ago: Faithful celebrate sesquicentennial of St. Damien’s arrival
On March 19, 1864, Belgian seminarian Damiaan (Jozef) de Veuster first stepped foot in Honolulu and began a legacy of humble service in the Islands. He would be ordained a priest here two months later on May 21 in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace. His later ministry to the Hansen’s disease patients in […]
Pope Francis: Priests, be merciful; Catholics, ‘pester your priests’
VATICAN CITY — Always be merciful, just like Jesus, who came to forgive, not condemn, Pope Francis told new priests. “Always have in front of your eyes the example of the Good Shepherd, who didn’t come to be served, but to serve and to look for and save those who were lost,” he said in […]
Pope Francis’ homily: A Martian walks into church and asks to be baptized …
VATICAN CITY — Christians must recognize that they do not lead or guide the church, but that the Holy Spirit does and the Holy Spirit can be unpredictable, Pope Francis said. “If, for example, an expedition of Martians arrived tomorrow,” and one said he wanted to be baptized, “What would happen?” the pope asked May […]
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