Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Pope: Cardinals should be ‘grandfathers’

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25TH ANNIVERSARY By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN LETTER — The Catholic Church is not a “gerontocracy” ruled by old men, 80-year-old Pope Francis said; “we aren’t old men, we are grandfathers.” “We are grandfathers called to dream and to give our dreams to the young people of today. They need it so that […]

Pope: Hunger caused by ‘indifference of many, selfishness of a few’

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MESSAGE TO THE U.N. By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The international community must not remain resigned to the plight of those suffering hunger and malnutrition, which is often caused by indifference and selfishness, Pope Francis said. In a message to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization conference July 3, the […]

Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America

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Thoughts on a historic gathering By Greg Erlandson Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The first century of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has concluded with its organization of an unprecedented and powerful gathering of Catholics in Orlando, Florida. With the somewhat ungainly title of “Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in […]

Return of Guam archbishop would be disastrous, says coadjutor bishop

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By Catholic News Service AGANA, Guam — No matter the outcome of a Vatican trial against Guam’s archbishop, Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron of Agana should not return to lead the archdiocese, said the archdiocese’s coadjutor. “I think it would be a disaster if Archbishop Apuron were to return as the bishop of record,” said Coadjutor […]

Cardinal Pell, professing innocence, on leave, will face charges in Australia

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Proclaiming his innocence after being charged with sexual abuse, Australian Cardinal George Pell said, “I’m looking forward finally to having my day in court.” “I’m innocent of these charges. They are false. The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me,” he said June 29 […]

Bishop says ‘fundamental defects’ persist in health bill

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Reaction from religious groups is strongly negative By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act contains “many of the fundamental defects” that appeared in the House-passed American Health Care Act “and even further compounds them,” said the bishop who heads the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human […]

Richard Doerflinger: A myth of neutrality

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A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY Once upon a time, we were told to allow dissent from time-honored legal and moral norms in the name of “freedom of choice.” Politicians assured us they were “personally opposed” to abortion but couldn’t impose their values on others. Assisted suicide was advocated not as a way to demean the lives […]

Vatican statistics track church health indicators

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The health of the Catholic Church can be measured in many ways, and the Vatican has a special office just for that purpose. The Central Statistics Office, which operates under the Vatican Secretariat of State, conducts a variety of studies for the Roman Curia throughout the […]