Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Holy Land pilgrims get tattoos to remember their travels

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By Judith Sudilovsky Catholic News Service JERUSALEM — Three generations of the Razzouk family busily attended to Christian pilgrims and tourists packed into a tiny shop to get Christian tattoos to mark their pilgrimages to the Holy Land. The Razzouk family has been tattooing Christian pilgrims in the Holy Land for 500 years — and […]

St. Thomas Aquinas meets bluegrass

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A best-selling album by a group of Dominican ‘hillbillies’ demonstrates that holiness and happiness harmonize well Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Bluegrass music may not be the first thing that comes to mind when people think of Dominicans, but for the 10 Dominican brothers and priests at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington who […]

Richard Doerflinger: Planned Parenthood’s abortion fixation

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A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY Cecile Richards, who plans to retire this year as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, has authored a self-congratulatory memoir called “Make Trouble.” During her decade-long leadership, trouble is certainly something the organization has created. While it serves fewer clients than in 2005, its share of the nation’s abortions […]

Father Geoffrey A. Brooke Jr.: Three steps to joy

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“Evangelii Gaudium,” “Amoris Laetitia” and, now, “Gaudete et Exsultate.” What do they have in common? They were written by Pope Francis? Yes. They are apostolic exhortations? Yes. More important? Joy. Joy is not only the thing that these three challenging texts of Pope Francis have in common, but joy is also the way one should […]

Pope Francis’ exhortation: Holiness is being loving, not boring

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Holiness Is being loving, not boring Pope Francis’ new exhortation on sanctity: ‘Gaudete et Exsultate’ (‘Rejoice and Be Glad’) By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — God calls all Christians to be saints — not plastic statues of saints, but real people who make time for prayer and who show loving care for […]

Quotes from ‘Gaudete et Exsultate’

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  ‘The saints do not waste energy complaining about the failings of others’ By Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Here is a selection of quotations from “Gaudete et Exsultate” (“Rejoice and Be Glad”), Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on holiness: “I like to contemplate the holiness present in the patience of God’s people: in those […]

‘Is my dad in heaven,’ little neighborhood boy asks pope

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME — After circling a massive, crumbling public housing complex on the outskirts of Rome, Pope Francis had an emotional encounter with the neighborhood’s children. Question-and-answer sessions with youngsters are a standard part of Pope Francis’ parish visits. And, at St. Paul of the Cross parish April 15, there […]

Effie Caldarola: Much is required

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FOR THE ROAD Every Saturday, a local newspaper features excerpts from Sunday homilies, including occasional Catholic ones, in a section called “From the Pulpit.” Easter weekend featured a Unitarian minister’s reflections. Unitarians profess a free search for truth and meaning and do not assert any creed. Needless to say, their theology can be very different […]

Terminally ill mother: Euthanasia push robs ‘friends, family of joy’

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By Marilyn Rodrigues Catholic News Service SYDNEY — In March, as Anna Corry lay dying, she sent out a request to speak publicly about her opposition to euthanasia. The 50-year-old former nursing educator had endured an aggressive type of breast cancer since her diagnosis in January 2016. This January, she and her husband, Martin, a […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Why did the pope celebrate Stephen Hawking?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: Stephen Hawking died recently. As I understand it, Professor Hawking claimed to have proven that God does not exist. And yet the pope met with him and recognized his studies; why would the pope do that and celebrate an atheist? (central Virginia) A: Professor Stephen Hawking, the renowned British theoretical physicist, died […]