VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald By the grace of God, I am simply happy to live each day. When I made my first profession, I told myself, “I offer my life to God in thanksgiving for everything He has done for me.” I cannot remember where I […]
Brett Robinson: The power of human compassion
THEOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY I recently spent a few days visiting the hospital to take care of a loved one who had some complications from a cancer procedure. I marveled at the sophisticated medical technologies that were being used so expertly to treat her. At one point, a doctor came into the room and removed fluid […]
Mary Duddy: In sickness and in health
THE MARRIED LIFE Tom had surgery on his shoulder to repair a torn rotator cuff. Two weeks later I had surgery on my shin to remove a melanoma. Tom wore a sling on his arm, and I had a bandage on my leg. People at church joked, “What did you do to each other?!” Two […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Friday abstinence for a vegan?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I grew up Catholic, and we always did meatless Fridays year-round as part of the Catholic practice of abstinence. (We had fish instead.) Now, as a vegan adult, since I’m already skipping meat anyway (fish, too), if I still wanted to do some kind of Friday abstinence, could I give up things […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: And all were satisfied
17TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 2 Kings 4:42-44; Ephesians 4:1-6; John 6:1-15 The Second Book of Kings is the source of this weekend’s first reading. The two books of Kings originally were one volume. At one point in the evolution of the Bible, they were divided into two books. These books are historical, but […]
An angel story
God has endless ways of making his love known By Easter Almuena Special to the Herald The room is quiet and peaceful, with a faint breeze flowing from one open door to the next. I am sewing a mask. With me is a child whose dexterity and knowledge of the sewing machine are enough reassurance […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Stopping the bleeding
13TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIMEThis is the prepared text of the homily by Bishop Larry Silva for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered June 26 and 27 at Sacred Heart Church, Punahou, where he was conducting a parish visitation. Stop the bleeding! That is what we often say when there is a crisis, because […]
Sister Ma. Teresa Ebanen, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: Ancestral values
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald My family’s farm in Iyasan village in Igbaras in the Philippines is an ancestral farm. It belongs to the Ebanen family. Having been passed down from grandfather and great-grandfather, my family continues certain traditions. Growing up, I remember walking 45 minutes across […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Meeting the faithful post-pandemic
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS Now that churches are reopening, the expectation of so many in parish leadership is that things will simply return to normal. We are a nation that remains divided on how to deal with COVID-19 and as such many Catholics have an expectation of choice regarding how they experience Mass safely. While many […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: We have been redeemed
15TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Amos 7:12-15; Ephesians 1:3-14; Mark 6:7-13 The Book of Amos is the source of this weekend’s first reading. Amos is one of the relatively few prophets of whom something is known. Many prophets give a few details about themselves, but not many give more than that. By contrast, it is […]
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