LEGISLATIVE REPORT What would Jesus do? In this summary report for the closing of the State of Hawaii legislative session, there aren’t enough words to convey the impact Hawaii’s faith-based community had over the past year. The church did what it does best — it rose to the challenge of helping those less fortunate. Catholic […]
Stephen Kula: So, what is a good life?
I AM A DEACON I am a deacon … and I am still, at the age of 72, trying to learn to be myself. Growing up as the youngest of 4 children, I was always being told what to do and what to be. I was never really being myself or even trying to find […]
Mary Duddy: Greeting one another
THE MARRIED LIFE Mother (Saint) Teresa tells a sweet story about her mother: “I cannot forget my mother. She was usually busy all day long. But when sunset drew near, it was her custom to hurry with her tasks in order to be ready to receive my father. At the time we did not understand, […]
Laura Kelly Fanucci: Start small like God loves to do
FAITH AT HOME How often do you think about how small you are? Not your size or shape, but the fact that you were once tinier than the period at the end of this sentence. Or the truth that you are one of almost 8 billion people on the planet today. Or the mind-boggling statistic […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: How did the pope and grand ayatollah communicate? As Catholics obligated to keep people on life support and tube feeding?
QUESTION CORNER Q: When the Holy Father and Ayatollah al-Sistani met recently, at the end they stood facing each other and seemed to be talking without an interpreter. What language did they use in order to communicate? (Powhatan, Virginia) A: According to the website of the Jesuit magazine America there was, in fact, an interpreter […]
Mary Adamski: Living the legacy of Babel
VIEW FROM THE PEW If you haven’t heard the expression “a Hail Mary” used completely outside the context of our religion, you must not hear or read sports commentators who love that reference to a prayer as shorthand for a last-ditch athletic performance that’s nothing short of a miracle. Another expression that has morphed away […]
Talk story: Ensuring no one is left behind
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “The truth however is that we are all in the same boat and called to work together so that there will be no more walls that separate us, no longer others, but only a single ‘we’, encompassing all of humanity.” (Pope Francis, Message for 2021 World Day of Migrants and Refugees) […]
Talk story: ‘Toward an ever wider we’
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “As a nation of immigrants, we have a moral obligation to help our brothers and sisters around the world who are in need.” (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, May 4, 2021) While America still struggles with COVID-19 and other social challenges, U.S. Catholics have been coming together to help our […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Jesus wants to make us one with him
WITNESS TO JESUS | SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Here is the prepared text of the homily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, and the celebration of Confirmation and first Communion, delivered by Bishop Larry Silva May 9 at Holy Family Church, Honolulu. What a blessing it is to be able to celebrate your Confirmation and […]
First Communion recipient overcomes obstacle, gives hope to others
By Janet Jones Catholic News Service COLUMBUS, Texas — Carson Crosby, a student at St. Anthony Catholic School in Columbus who received his first Communion this spring, faced a unique challenge. Carson has a genetic mitochondrial disease that prevents him from consuming food and drink orally. Since his infancy, he has been receiving nutrition through […]
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