Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Father John Catoir: Sadness

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When I was little, I was sad because my parents wouldn’t buy me a pony. (We lived in an apartment.) When I was a teen, I was sad because I had pimples. As an adult, I became sad when I started losing my hair. You might say, sadness is part of the human condition. However, […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Jesus is Lord

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SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18; Romans 8:31b-34; Mark 9:2-10 The Book of Genesis is the source of this weekend’s first reading. Often, Genesis is associated with its creation narratives. Actually, much more is included in Genesis. A major figure is Abraham. Historians and biblical scholars agree that Abraham actually lived long […]

Father John Catoir: Atheism

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Recently, I came across an amusing cartoon depicting two snowmen; one was rebuking the other. The caption read, “Don’t be absurd! Of course, no one made us! We evolved from random snowflakes.” Poking fun at Darwin’s theory of evolution is considered irreverent in some circles, but I take delight in it. His theory gave so […]

Richard Doerflinger: Assisted suicide: It’s about all of us

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A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY Even after working on an issue for decades, you can come across one thing that shifts your perception of what it’s about. That happened to me recently on the issue of physician-assisted suicide, thanks to an intrepid Swedish investigator named Fabian Stahle. Stahle saw support growing in his country for a […]

Sister Maria Joseph Petrill, Daughters of St. Paul: The life of an evangelizer

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald There was once a lady who came into our bookstore and told us that our children’s books had helped her family very much. Every night she would read stories on the faith or the saints to her children. Her husband, who was […]

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