Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Church urged to address its leaders’ ‘moral failures of judgment’

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By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick “will rightly face” a Vatican canonical process regarding sexual abuse allegations against him, but the U.S. Catholic Church must take steps to respond to church leaders’ “moral failures of judgment,” said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The accusations against Archbishop […]

Kansan returns to Australia saint’s tomb in thanks for Parkinson’s cure

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  By Catherine Sheehan Catholic News Service SYDNEY — Exactly 10 years to the day — July 18, 2018 — Ricky Peterson of Kansas City, Kansas, knelt once more at the tomb of St. Mary MacKillop in suburban North Sydney, Australia, this time with a prayer of thanksgiving for the seemingly miraculous event that had […]

Names of past Harrisburg bishops will be removed from buildings

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  By Catholic News Service HARRISBURG, Pa. — Harrisburg Bishop Ronald W. Gainer Aug. 1 released information from the diocese’s own internal investigation on child sex abuse, including a list of the names of 71 clergy, both dead and alive, accused of abuse. He also ordered removal from buildings, halls and rooms the names of […]

Keeping Catholic school tuition affordable requires creativity

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By Chaz Muth and Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Making Catholic education accessible to everyone has been a mission of the church in the U.S. for centuries, but keeping it affordable in modern times has required innovative methods. Religious orders and parish schools labored in the 19th century to bring education to everyone, […]

Cardinal Tagle laments deaths of innocent people in Philippines

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  By Catholic News Service MANILA, Philippines — A teary-eyed Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila lamented the deaths of innocent people killed since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office. Addressing 8,000 participants July 22 during the last day of the Fifth Philippine Conference on New Evangelization, Cardinal Tagle asked if people were happy with […]

Catholic capital punishment opponents praise pope’s revision

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  By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Aug. 2 announcement that Pope Francis had ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church calling the death penalty “inadmissible” was praised by Catholic death penalty opponents in the U.S. “I am overjoyed and deeply grateful to learn that Pope Francis closed the last […]

Analysis: All eyes now fixed on Kavanaugh and Roe

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By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Brett Kavanaugh, the federal judge who is the newly announced Supreme Court nominee, has stepped into a firestorm. Some have praised his nomination, others have slammed it, hinging primarily on how they think he will vote on abortion cases. This contention was on full display July 9 […]

Catholic agency must consider same-sex couples for foster care

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  By Matthew Gambino Catholic News Service PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge has swept away claims of religious discrimination by plaintiffs including Catholic Social Services of the Philadelphia Archdiocese and ruled the church agency must provide home assessments for same-sex couples wishing to provide foster care for at-risk children in Philadelphia. The Catholic agency’s leadership […]

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