Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Olives: Valued gift from God makes an ancient oil

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By Nancy Wiechec Catholic News Service Olives have been cultivated and crushed for oil for at least 2,000 years before the Christian era. Scripture gives no doubt to the abundance of the small bitter fruits in biblical lands. The Old Testament celebrates olive trees as among God’s valued gifts to the faithful of Israel. “For […]

For Lent, ask if one’s life is centered on God or oneself, pope says

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Lent is a time to reconsider the path one is taking in life and to finally answer God’s invitation to return to him with one’s whole heart, Pope Francis said. “Lent is not just about the little sacrifices we make, but about discerning where our hearts […]

Pope’s pilgrimage: Iraq: Full of historic sites important to Christianity

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By Dale Gavlak Catholic News Service AMMAN, Jordan — Pope Francis hopes to embark on the first-ever papal visit to the biblical land of Iraq in early March in a spiritual pilgrimage of sorts to the place known in Arabic as the “land of the two rivers” — the mighty Tigris and Euphrates — and […]

House passes Equality Act opposed by U.S. bishops

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By Julie Asher Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed the Equality Act in a 224-206 vote Feb. 25. A couple days ahead of the vote, the chairmen of five U.S. bishops’ committees said its mandates will “discriminate against people of faith” by adversely affecting charities and their beneficiaries, conscience rights, women’s […]

Katie Prejean McGrady: In defense of hope

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WINDOW SEAT WISDOM Our bedtime routine with our 3-year-old daughter is quite simple. Bath. Nighttime snack of strawberries and grapes. Read books. Brush teeth. Potty. Say our prayers. Tuck her under the covers. Kiss on the forehead. Lights out. It takes about 30 minutes, give or take the number of books she grabs off the […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Wasn’t our first pope married? Can the church bless our relationship?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: My wife and I recently came into communion with the Roman Catholic Church. I know that a hot-button topic in the church is the question of whether there should be married priests. I have slowly come to the belief that unmarried priests make logical and biblical sense. Seeing how hard our parish […]

CNS Rome: full, accurate church reporting for 70 years

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By John Thavis Catholic News Service As Catholic News Service celebrates its centennial, the CNS Rome bureau is marking its own anniversary as a unique newsgathering satellite at the center of the universal church. Over its 70-year history, the Rome bureau has chronicled a multitude of epochal Catholic events, including the Second Vatican Council, six […]

Widespread vaccination, backed by pope, faces obstacles

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The hurdles on the path toward a fair, global distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine are economic, technical, political and moral. The difficulty of vaccine rollouts even in the world’s richest countries demonstrates what a daunting task it is to quickly get the inoculations into the arms […]