ON THE JOURNEY When I lived in Alaska, I was an extraordinary minister of holy Communion to the homebound. Looking back, I’m rather amazed that I volunteered for this task, which often took me on ice-clogged roads that meandered haphazardly into the snowy hillsides of Anchorage. The years have turned me into a much more […]
Carolyn Woo: Raise our voice
OUR GLOBAL FAMILY The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, gave me many reasons for pause. The hatred spewed by people in white hoods with flaming torches jumped from the safety of books, movies or some isolated places to permeate the news in my home and puncture my perception that such sentiments are only on the fringe. […]
Elise Italiano: First time for eucharistic adoration
IN LIGHT OF FAITH I think I was 19 years old the first time I went to eucharistic adoration. It wasn’t regularly offered at my parish, and my family never lingered after Holy Thursday Mass. When my college chaplain informed us he was going to start offering it each week, I had to ask him […]
Father KennethDoyle: Is my mother in heaven?
QUESTION CORNER Q: My mother passed away some time ago, and I wonder whether she is now in “God’s eternal embrace.” How can I be sure? She was a good mother and she dearly loved the church, but we have been taught that everyone has some imperfections and, upon death, must be sent to purgatory […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Approach God with faith and humility
WITNESS TO JESUS This is the prepared text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered Aug. 19 and 20 at St. John the Apostle and Evangelist Church, Mililani, with marriage convalidations; St. Roch Church, Kahuku, parish centennial; and St. John the Baptist Church, Kalihi, Spanish Mass. Sometimes when we […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Does he need an annulment first?
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 […]
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