EMBRACING FAMILY It’s impossible to share the faith with our children without embracing it ourselves. “Well, that’s why I send them to Faith Formation or Catholic School!” Not quite! Sharing the faith is primarily the responsibility of the parents. We are the domestic church. Take a moment and envision Jesus walking among us today. If […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Sin is no match for God
3RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 8:23-9:3; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, 17; Matthew 4:12-23 The Book of Isaiah supplies this weekend’s first reading. It offers us a powerful lesson. When this part of Isaiah was written, God’s people were skating on thin ice. They still had their independence, at least after a fashion. Hebrew kings still […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Witnessing for life online
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS This new year ushers in a whole new decade. Many themes associated with 2020 are connected to clarity, vision and focus. For our church, the month of January is focused on respect life events and prayer. Across the country there will be marches and walks for life — events to galvanize the […]
Bishop Larry Silva: The romance of Christmas
WITNESS TO JESUS | CHRISTMAS Here is the prepared text of the homily of Bishop Larry Silva delivered on Christmas, Dec. 25, at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace and the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa In 1988, when I was a pastor of a parish in Oakland, my very dear friend was looking […]
Talk story: This year, leave your comfort zones
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Yet in the Spirit of this wonderful Christmas Story we will find Jesus most concretely when we travel out of our comfortable places. As he was first found in the poorest conditions on the night of his birth, we find him in the poor, the homeless and the hungry as we […]
Father Lane Akiona, Congregation of the Sacred Hearts: ‘Damiaan inspireert’*: Damien inspires
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald As an altar server at the former St. Sophia Church on Molokai (now St. Damien Catholic Church), I remember the Sacred Hearts priests being like modern-day Damiens. One of the priests was particularly gruff. But, he was out there fixing churches and […]
Christina Capecchi: The story of our lives
TWENTY SOMETHING I’m beginning the new year with a clean office. It seems a good place to start, a practical way to set me up for any other resolutions I make. My office used to be meticulous. Early in our marriage, my husband surprised me with a u-shaped mahogany desk he’d found on Craigslist. It […]
Effie Caldarola: Make 2020 a year of forgiveness
FOR THE JOURNEY As we trudge into 2020, a year that promises to be just as rancorous politically as the year we are ending, I find myself thinking about forgiveness. Not forgiveness as a meek act of acquiescing to evil, which is what our national climate might persuade us to believe. But forgiveness as a […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Why a crucifix instead of a cross? Can medication be used to help this condition?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Most of my family is Protestant, but I became an adult convert four years ago and was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic faith. Members of my family often ask me questions about Catholic beliefs, and usually I can answer them, but recently my mother asked me one that I need your […]
Richard Doerflinger: Catholic judges under the microscope
A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY Catholics wanting to serve our country in the legal system are coming under intense scrutiny. In 2017, University of Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett was grilled by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee about her Catholic faith. Sen. Dianne Feinstein told Barrett that “the dogma lives loudly within you, […]
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