Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Father Kenneth Doyle: ‘Was Mary’s privilege retroactive?’

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Was Mary’s privilege retroactive? Q: In a recent article on Our Lady in a well-known Catholic magazine, I was disturbed to read that the Blessed Mother was “saved retroactively from original sin” in view of the merits of Jesus Christ. I had always learned that, from the time of her conception, Mary was born without […]

Iraqi patriarch: Situation perhaps ‘darkest and most difficult period’

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A Christian woman who fled from the violence in Mosul, Iraq, holds her daughter as her baby sleeps June 27 at a shelter in Irbil, Iraq. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad said the city of Mosul “is almost empty of Christians.” (CNS photo/Ahmed Jadallah, Reuters)   AMMAN, Jordan The patriarch of the Chaldean […]

Pope Francis to sex abuse survivors: ‘And I ask for the grace to weep’

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Pope Francis kisses a child during his June 25 general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters)   VATICAN CITY Here is the Vatican’s English translation of the homily Pope Francis gave in Spanish July 7 during a Mass with victims of clerical sexual abuse: The scene where Peter sees […]

Minors at border should be considered ‘refugees’

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WASHINGTON From the head of the U.S. agency in charge of the welfare of more than 50,000 Central American children who have been apprehended at the Mexican border, to the Honduran cardinal who heads the international Catholic relief agency, Caritas, the message was clear, those minors are as much refugees as the people fleeing upheaval […]

Chapter on abuse is not closed while people still suffer, says archbishop

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ROME The crisis of child abuse by clergy is not a thing of the past — it will linger until the church humbly and courageously reaches out to all people still suffering in silence, said Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin. “To some it might seem less than prudent to think that the church would go […]

Photo | Beatitudes: Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted

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Palestinians surround the body of a 10-year-old girl, whom hospital officials said was killed in an Israeli airstrike, during her funeral at a mosque in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, July 11. A Catholic priest in Gaza said Israeli missile attacks are wide-ranging and that there is no safe zone. (CNS photo/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Reuters)

Vatican questions accuracy of latest papal interview

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VATICAN CITY The Vatican said the latest published interview with Pope Francis, in which he says fighting sex abuse and the mafia will be priorities of his pontificate, should not be considered a record of his exact words. According to the article, published July 13 in the Rome daily La Repubblica, the pope also spoke […]

Manaolana | Young people find healing, purpose, God’s love in the theology of the body

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PHILADELPHIA For campus minister Amy West, St. John Paul II’s theology of the body is more than just the late pope’s writings on the human body, the creation of male and female, marriage and human sexuality. It is a means of healing and self-discovery for young people. “What I see with each coming year is […]

Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk: Renegade researchers and the future of biomedical research

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Producing human embryos in the laboratory for research purposes makes most people uneasy. Even those who tolerate the creation of embryos in test tubes so that infertile couples might have children will often have reservations about the creation of embryos to serve as experimental research material or to destroy them for their cellular parts. Twenty […]