Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Jim Lackey, longtime CNS editor who embraced old and new media, retires

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By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Jim Lackey, recently retired longtime editor at Catholic News Service, would be hard-pressed to choose between old and new media. As Web editor and manager for CNS for the past decade, Lackey certainly got the importance of new media — and its broad outreach on […]

School shooting an act of ‘horrifying evil,’ says Miami archbishop

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By Catholic News Service MIAMI — Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski urged community members to come together “to support one another in this time of grief” after a shooting rampage Feb. 14 at a Broward County high school left at least 17 people dead and at least 14 injured. “With God’s help, we can remain […]

Case involving transfer of Archbishop Sheen’s body is returned to N.Y. court

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NEW YORK — The case involving the transfer of the remains of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen from New York to Peoria, Illinois, has been sent back to the original court by the New York Court of Appeals for an evidentiary hearing. Archbishop Sheen, a Peoria diocesan priest, gained fame in the 1950s with a prime-time […]

Vatican denies Pope Benedict has degenerative condition

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By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Vatican denied that retired Pope Benedict XVI has a degenerative neurological disease or paralyzing condition after his brother, 94-year-old Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, told a magazine that Pope Benedict had a debilitating disease. In an interview published Feb. 13 in the German weekly entertainment magazine, […]

Soup? No dessert? Valentine’s Day Ash Wednesday-style

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By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Many people looking at their February calendars are doing a double-take with Ash Wednesday falling on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day. The two days, steeped in tradition, don’t have too much in common beyond their religious roots. Valentine’s Day, named after St. Valentine, a third-century martyr, is all […]

Lord’s Prayer: Germans stick with wording; Italians to change at Mass

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service ROME — After special study, the German bishops’ conference decided to stick with the traditional wording in the Lord’s Prayer while the Italian bishops’ conference has decided to change the words of the prayer in their translation of the Roman Missal. The decisions come after the French bishops decided […]

Richard Doerflinger: Assisted suicide: It’s about all of us

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A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY Even after working on an issue for decades, you can come across one thing that shifts your perception of what it’s about. That happened to me recently on the issue of physician-assisted suicide, thanks to an intrepid Swedish investigator named Fabian Stahle. Stahle saw support growing in his country for a […]

Vatican, China nearing agreement on bishops, according to reports

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Multiple news reports indicate the Vatican has made substantial progress in reaching an agreement with China’s communist government on the naming of bishops for several dioceses. The news agency Reuters and The Wall Street Journal both reported Feb. 1 that the deal would involve two bishops […]