Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Peacocks’ togetherness, respect spur team’s ‘miracle’ season

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By Joe Jordan Catholic News Service Was it a miracle? “Astounding,” is how Jesuit Father Andrew Downing described it. He watched with delight as the men’s basketball team at his small Jesuit university leaped into the national spotlight in a historic tournament run to the NCAA’s Elite Eight. It was the first time a college […]

Pope apologizes for treatment of Indigenous in Canada

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Expressing “sorrow and shame” for the complicity of Catholics in abusing Indigenous children in Canada and helping in the attempt to erase their culture, Pope Francis pledged to address the issue more fully when he visits Canada. “For the deplorable conduct of those members of the […]

Missing Filipino priest found, unconscious and bound, after two days

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By Catholic News Service MANILA, Philippines — A Catholic priest in the Philippines was found unconscious and tied up in his car after being reported missing two days earlier, said police, who suspect he was the victim of a kidnap attempt. Father Leoben Peregrino, 58, disappeared April 1, after parishioners saw him getting into his […]

Real-life Father Stu has actor  ‘continuing to carry on his message’

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By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Catholic actor Mark Wahlberg, who plays the title role in the upcoming movie “Father Stu,” said the real-life Montana priest is “having me continuing to carry on his message.” “Father Stu,” in theaters April 13, tells the story of Father Stuart Long, a priest who had been […]

English police to allow priests to give last rites at crime scenes

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  By Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service MANCHESTER, England — Police in England have produced national guidelines to allow priests to give last rites to Catholics dying at crime scenes. The change follows the outcry by Catholics at the denial of permission to Father Jeffrey Woolnough to pass through a police cordon and administer the […]

Pope consecrates Ukraine, Russia to Mary

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By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — As Russia’s violent monthlong invasion continued to devastate Ukraine, Pope Francis laid the fates of both countries at the feet of Mary in the hopes that peace would finally reign. “Mother of God and our mother, to your Immaculate Heart we solemnly entrust and consecrate […]

Jesuitical, ‘young, hip and lay’ podcast, has global reach

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By Anna Capizzi Galvez Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — A “young, hip and lay” podcast, Jesuitical, from America Media is celebrating five years. Co-hosted by Zac Davis and Ashley McKinless, podcast episodes focus on three main segments — Catholic news, an interview with a guest and faith-sharing — “often over drinks,” as the podcast tagline […]

Elise Italiano Ureneck: The things they carry in Ukraine

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FINDING GOD IN ALL THINGS Like many people, I have spent the past few weeks watching and reading the news out of Ukraine. Images of desperate refugees fleeing home, of men pressed into service, of mass graves are now firmly lodged in my mind. I had to turn the television off one afternoon after watching […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: No purgatory for the good thief? No weddings during Lent?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: As I understand purgatory, it is a place where a cleansing is done, even if we have received the sacrament of anointing of the sick and/or made a good confession and had our sins absolved before death. My question is this: On the day Jesus was crucified, he told the good thief, […]

St. Bernadette’s relics to begin first U.S. tour in April

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By Toni Pallatto Catholic News Service MIAMI — The relics of St. Bernadette, the Marian visionary of Lourdes, France, will tour the United States for the first time. The visit will begin in South Florida at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Miami, with a morning welcome Mass April 7. The next day the relics […]