Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Sherry Hayes-Peirce: AI technology helps Instagram tackle bullying

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  CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS Over the next few weeks our kids will be heading back to school. While some look forward to the first day of school, others dread being back on campus. In fact, a recent ABC News report found that nationwide 160,000 kids per day stay home because they are afraid of being […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: How do vegans do Fridays in Lent?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: What do persons who don’t normally eat meat do about the church’s rules on abstinence, such as on the Fridays during Lent? Nowadays, many Catholics are mainly fish eaters anyway, or they are vegans or vegetarians. What can they do to participate in the discipline of the church? (New Middletown, Indiana) A: […]

Effie Caldarola: Together at the potluck

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FOR THE JOURNEY When I was growing up in a small Midwestern farm community, I was vaguely aware of rich folks. There were prosperous lawyers, business owners, Dad’s cousin who owned the grain mill. Our family struggled on a small dryland farm, made more challenging by my dad’s ill health. But as a kid, I […]

Laura Kelly Fanucci: Sharpen your pencils for the school of love

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FAITH AT HOME Did you know the family is a school of love? The Second Vatican Council declared this teaching, St. John Paul II deepened it and Pope Francis affirmed it. Our Catechism of the Catholic Church spells it out clearly: The family is “a community of grace and prayer, a school of human virtues […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Jesus is the key to God’s kingdom

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21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 66:18-21; Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13; Luke 13:22-30 The Book of Isaiah provides the first reading for this weekend. Isaiah is a fascinating book of Scripture. It covers a long period of Hebrew history. Its early chapters deal with events and conditions in the southern Hebrew kingdom of Judah, before the […]

Father Clement Beeri, diocesan priest: The joys of interacting with the people

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald One of the greatest joys of being a parish priest is interacting with the people. For example, I am constantly amazed when people are edified by certain words or scriptural passages I might mention in the homily which they tell me about […]

Talk story: Familia, messy, but together

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OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together.” (Acts 2:1) On the first Pentecost, the Apostles were gathered in one place, as one “ohana,” when they were filled with the Holy Spirit. They were inspired to “witness to Jesus” with others through acts of love […]

Carolyn Woo: When expectations yield to love

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OUR GLOBAL FAMILY This summer marks the special occasions of David’s and my 40th anniversary and the marriage of our older son Ryan to Sarah, our new daughter. In one of the prewedding festivities, I asked the men gathered, married from 10 to 50 years, what advice they have for the groom-to-be. They responded with […]

Father Eugene Hemrick: The blessing of reality checks

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THE HUMAN SIDE “I have observed Satan falling like lightning from the sky” (Lk 10:18). Jesus instructed the Twelve: “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves” (Mt 10:16). Avoiding being like Satan, who was dispelled from heaven because of pride, and […]