Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Teen who died saving classmates in school shooting made a Knight

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By Catholic News Service MINNEAPOLIS — As residents of El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, mourned the loss of 31 people in mass shootings Aug. 3 and Aug. 4, the Knights of Columbus honored a teen who died in May trying to save the lives of his classmates during a shooting at his suburban Denver […]

Anti-nuke activists tell court Catholic faith motivated their protests

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By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Seven defendants charged with a series of offenses for illegally entering a naval submarine base in Georgia to call for nuclear disarmament told a federal judge that their actions were motivated by their Catholic faith and not by their political beliefs. The testimony Aug. 7 from the […]

Hosffman Ospino: With gratitude to all farmworkers

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JOURNEYING TOGETHER By Hosffman Ospino, Catholic News Service We all like our fresh salads, vegetables and fruits. If we eat meat, we want the best quality. However, these do not grow or raise themselves. They come to us thanks to the hard and dedicated work of farm laborers. In the United States of America there […]

Pew survey shows most Catholics don’t believe in ‘Real Presence’

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By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — A new study about the level of Catholic belief in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist showed that a majority of Catholics do not believe that the bread and wine used at Mass become the body and blood of Christ. The report drew a strong […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: How do vegans do Fridays in Lent?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: What do persons who don’t normally eat meat do about the church’s rules on abstinence, such as on the Fridays during Lent? Nowadays, many Catholics are mainly fish eaters anyway, or they are vegans or vegetarians. What can they do to participate in the discipline of the church? (New Middletown, Indiana) A: […]

Effie Caldarola: Together at the potluck

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FOR THE JOURNEY When I was growing up in a small Midwestern farm community, I was vaguely aware of rich folks. There were prosperous lawyers, business owners, Dad’s cousin who owned the grain mill. Our family struggled on a small dryland farm, made more challenging by my dad’s ill health. But as a kid, I […]

Laura Kelly Fanucci: Sharpen your pencils for the school of love

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FAITH AT HOME Did you know the family is a school of love? The Second Vatican Council declared this teaching, St. John Paul II deepened it and Pope Francis affirmed it. Our Catechism of the Catholic Church spells it out clearly: The family is “a community of grace and prayer, a school of human virtues […]

Girl’s science project started the water flowing for town in Kenya

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By Elizabeth Bachmann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — In 2014 a science project sparked the compassion of a 10-year-old girl from Colorado. So, she set out on a walk that would change the lives of an entire town of people in Kenya. From that auspicious day in 2014 to the present, Jennifer Stuckenschneider, partnering with […]

Pope Francis joins prayers for victims of bloody weekend

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By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Pope Francis joined Catholic Church leaders expressing sorrow after back-to-back mass shootings in the United States left at least 31 dead and dozens injured in Texas and Ohio Aug. 3 and 4. After the prayer called the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square on Aug. 4, the pope […]