QUESTION CORNER Q: I need some clarification on the church’s marriage laws. I am a Catholic currently married to a divorced non-Catholic whose first marriage was not in the Catholic Church. I tried to arrange to marry him in the church, but a parish priest told me that my husband-to-be would need to get his […]
Talk story: Welcome, protect, promote, integrate
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.” (Leviticus 19:34) On Aug. 15, the Feast of the Assumption, Pope Francis wrote in his […]
Father John Catoir: What God has joined together
Everyone agrees with Jesus, “What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.” (Mark 10:9) When a marriage case comes before any diocesan tribunal, the question before the chief judge is this: Was this marriage joined together by God, or not? In other words, the presumption of validity can be challenged. If the presumption […]
Christina Capecchi: Evangelization and the solar eclipse
TWENTY SOMETHING The rain fell heavy Monday morning in Des Moines, Iowa. Bleary-eyed travelers plotted alternative routes over eggs and potatoes at the Embassy Suites. A white-haired man wearing a Saturn shirt had heard it would be clearer in Columbia, Mo., than Kansas City, Mo., and decided to attempt the added hour of travel for […]
Father John Molina, Somascan Fathers: Becoming what we receive
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Perseverance cannot be gauged by how long one has stayed in whatever vocational path one has followed, but by how much one has prayed. If our prayer is lacking, everything else will be lacking. As a priest who loves celebrating each Mass […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: On being good disciples
23RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Ezekiel 33:7-9; Romans 13:8-10; Matthew 18:15-20 For the first reading this weekend, the church gives us a passage from the ancient Book of Ezekiel. Ezekiel’s name in Hebrew in effect was a prayer, “May God make (him) strong.” It was fitting since, as the prophet himself said and indeed said […]
Richard Doerflinger: Shall we manufacture our children?
A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY “In the year 6565,/ Ain’t gonna need no husband, won’t need no wife,/ You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too/ From the bottom of a long glass tube.” When “In the Year 2525” became a hit song in 1969, author Richard Lee Evans couldn’t have known his prediction about the […]
Talk story: Our immigrants, migrants and refugees
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “May these migrants meet brothers and sisters under every sky, who share with them the bread and hope of the common path.” (Pope Francis) Our Holy Father often calls us to reflect on how we can encounter Christ by walking with migrants on our shared journey of life. Pope Francis said, […]
Bishop Larry Silva: In service, spiritually and bodily
WITNESS TO JESUS This is the prepared text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the ordination to the diaconate of William “Pila” Tulua, Aug. 15, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, Honolulu, on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary This is a glorious day on which we celebrate the fact that […]
Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, retired: Good to the last drop
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING By Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald “Whrrr …” sounded the elevator before coming to a stop. “Thump … shuffle … thump … shuffle.” The cane coursed the polished wooden floor toward the kitchen with stiffened leg in tow. After a pause, for a cup of coffee perhaps, the thump […]
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