VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald My dad was a fisherman. He was a prayerful Christian who would go to his church at 7 a.m. every Sunday. As I never liked waking up early, sometimes I would just go with my mom to the Catholic Mass at her […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Seeing the planks in our own eyes
Witness to Jesus | Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time Here is the prepared text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, delivered March 3 at St. Sylvester Church, Kilauea, Kauai Many times the catechists of our children — lay people who are very generous with their time and talents — […]
Sister Miriam Joseph Teresi, Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities: Morning grounds: coffee and prayer
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, O.P. Hawaii Catholic Herald I taught school for 24 years, worked in the parish for 26, and ministered in the hospital for 13 years. Working in the parish, my mornings were filled with visiting the elderly; my evenings were busy with RCIA class, working with the […]
Mary Adamski: Consulting groundhogs and stars
VIEW FROM THE PEW “I don’t get this business about the groundhog; is it sacred or what?” I got that somewhat sarcastic comment from an island-born acquaintance who delights in challenging me to answer for all cultural quirks, puzzling rituals and inexplicable superstitions of the entire population of the entire continental USA. “And yet you […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: How does excommunication work? What became of the 10-minute limit on homilies?
QUESTION CORNER Q: From what we are seeing on social media here in New York state, there seems to be some misunderstanding about what excommunication is and how it happens. Does the pope excommunicate someone, or can a bishop? Is there a process? What is the pastoral approach to something like this? What are the […]
Father William M. Tulua: Former slave in line for sainthood
BLACK HISTORY MONTH February is Black History Month. To commemorate the month, I want to tell you the story of a young boy nicknamed “Gus.” During the Civil War, he fled slavery with his mother and two siblings from the Confederate state of Missouri to the free state of Illinois. In his new home of […]
Carolyn Woo: Let people know they matter
OUR GLOBAL FAMILY A favorite memory around this time of the year is the exchange of little valentine cards in our sons’ classrooms. I cannot remember when they became “too old” to feel comfortable with this practice, but it was such a tender gesture. I wonder what kids learned as they gave each other these […]
Talk story: It’s Lent: Rice Bowl time
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Lent is a favorable season for deepening our spiritual life through the means of sanctification offered us by the church: fasting, prayer and almsgiving … for renewing our encounter with Christ, living in his Word, in the sacraments and in our neighbor.” (Pope Francis) February began with tragic reports of two […]
Eva Andrade: A thousand cuts
HAWAII CATHOLIC CONFERENCE LEGISLATIVE REPORT Many people asked me what to expect for this year’s session of the State Legislature. I told them that after holding back physician-assisted suicide for 20 years, there wasn’t any equivalent big “moral” issue on the horizon. However, I warned them that I expected the outlook to be “death […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Love your enemies
7TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23; 1 Corinthians 15:45-49; Luke 6:27-38 The first book of Samuel supplies the first reading this weekend. Originally this book, and its companion, the Second Book of Samuel, were combined in one volume. In the third century BC, scholars translated the ancient Hebrew Scriptures […]
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