Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Photos: Pavilion crew

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A new visitors’ pavilion outside the Women’s Community Correctional Center in Kailua was painted by a crew of volunteers May 5. At left, staff from the diocesan prison ministry and facilities departments gather with personnel from the correctional facility and volunteer painters. The diocese organizes the annual “Star Light, Star Bright” Christmas party at the […]

Hawaii Catholic Harold’s Quiz: May 22, 2015

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Wow, Heraldians, are we already coming to the end of the Easter season? It’s unbelievable how fast time goes by. Here’s another quiz for you, sprinkled with some “spirited” questions in honor of Pentecost. 1) Saints Which of the following saints is NOT a Doctor of the Church? a) St. Francis of Assisi b) St. […]

Manaolana | Sidebar: May 22, 2015

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Quote “It’s a tool for collaboration in the parish and it’s a tool for the new evangelization.” | Brandon Kuboushek, a member of the parish evangelization committee at Holy Spirit Parish in Dubuque, Iowa, which in unveiling its app earlier this year joined the effort by more parishes nationwide to reach out to the faithful […]

Manaolana | Karen Osborne: Providing hope where none seems to exist

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I’ve been thinking a lot about hope, lately. I live in Baltimore and for the past few weeks, we’ve been in the news for peaceful and violent reasons. We’ve seen the entire spectrum of protest, from burning police cars to calm speeches in front of City Hall following the death of Freddie Gray, a Baltimore […]

Manaolana | Krakow calling: Experience the church universal at World Youth Day 2016

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World Youth Day is a little more than a year away. Will you be there?! Local Catholics — youth, young adults and chaperones — are invited to travel with Bishop Larry Silva and the diocesan Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry to Krakow, Poland, July 22-Aug. 2, 2016. That’s where millions of faithful are […]

Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk | Making sense of bioethics: What is VSED and why should it matter to us?

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More than 20 years ago, Dr. David Eddy, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, described how his mother, though not suffering from a terminal illness, chose to end her life through VSED (voluntarily stopping eating and drinking). She was “very independent, very self-sufficient, and very content.” When she began to be afflicted […]

Father Kenneth Doyle | Question Corner: I’m divorced. Can I be a Catholic?

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Q: I am a 68-year-old woman and am seriously considering converting to Catholicism. But I have been married more than once, have now been divorced for 11 years and, prior to the divorce, was separated for 10 years. I was exposed to Catholicism at an early age (when the service was in Latin), and I […]