Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Ex-Vatican diplomat guilty of distributing child porn

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  By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — A Vatican court found Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella, a former staff member at the Vatican nunciature in Washington, guilty of possessing and distributing child pornography. Judge Giuseppe Della Torre, head of the tribunal of the Vatican City State, delivered the verdict June 23, and […]

Bishops receive hundreds of calls offering foster care for detained kids

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By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Maybe it was the request by the Pentagon for 20,000 mattresses as military bases become, at least partly, shelters for detained border crossers. Maybe it was the federal government report that 2,342 children had been separated from 2,206 parents at the U.S.-Mexico border between May 5 and […]

Italian journalist takes aim at fake news about the pope

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By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — From the moment of his election, Pope Francis’ down-to-earth take on communicating the Gospel has led to countless front-page headlines either praising or criticizing him. But his disarming and sometimes even blunt style also has meant he has become a popular target of “fake news.” […]

Laura Kelly Fanucci: How to honor fathers with love

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FAITH AT HOME Beer. Golf. TV. Mowing. Burping. Fishing. According to greeting cards in the store aisles, this is all that modern fathers care about. Father’s Day is clogged with lowbrow stereotypes. Dad just wants to hog the remote control, crack a few crass jokes and drink a cold one. He’s not nurturing, caring or […]

Carole Norris Greene: Black culture at a royal wedding!

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COMMENTARY I never saw it coming, a British royal wedding that brought American black culture center stage before the world! This happened May 19 as Prince Henry of Wales, known as Prince Harry, wedded former American actress Rachel Meghan Markle. Now she is the Duchess of Sussex, elevated to stratospheric fame. It was surreal to […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: The pope’s answer ‘seemed shocking’

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QUESTION CORNER Q: In a recent issue of our diocesan paper, I read an article about a conversation that had occurred in Italy between Pope Francis and a young boy. The boy — who was both fearful and tearful, as he whispered his question to the pope — wanted to know whether his deceased father […]

All of Chile’s bishops offer resignations after meeting with pope on sexual abuse

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By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Every bishop in Chile offered his resignation to Pope Francis after a three-day meeting at the Vatican to discuss the clerical sexual abuse scandal. “We want to announce that all bishops present in Rome, in writing, have placed our positions in the Holy Father’s hands […]

Elise Italiano: Lessons from two soon-to-be saints

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IN LIGHT OF FAITH I was thrilled to see the announcement that Pope Francis will canonize Blessed Paul VI and Blessed Oscar Romero during the upcoming synod on “Young people, the faith and vocational discernment,” and I was even more elated that their canonizations will take place on the same day. I read Pope Francis’ […]