FOR THE JOURNEY My husband and I are sitting on our front porch on a gentle spring evening, reading. I hold up my book and show Jim Chapter 6: “Rat Hole.” “This pretty much sums up this book,” I say, and silently thank God for my house, my neighborhood, my life. Simultaneously, I grieve for […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Sharing in the mission of Christ
FEAST OF PENTECOST Acts 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23 Pentecost, the feast celebrated on this weekend, is the greatest day of the church’s year, save for Easter and Christmas. It is interesting in this sense. It is the only ancient Jewish feast still observed by the church. In the beginning, Christians almost invariably […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Jesus — a person — is the way
WITNESS TO JESUS This is the prepared text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 13, delivered at Our Lady of the Mount Church, Kalihi. When I was a pastor and was trying to make the liturgy in the parish as engaging as possible for the parishioners, I knew that […]
Mary Adamski: Lists and lists of lists
VIEW FROM THE PEW Lists. Five things to watch to keep your car from breaking down. Eight good health habits to safeguard your body from that same fate. Ten steps to make your house safe from falls and other dire events that would hasten the above-mentioned bad end. A dozen ways to guard against horrifying […]
Sister Mary Nguyen Trang, Missionary Sisters of Faith: From the mouths of babes
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald On the first day of school, the children were introduced to the church as we are a Catholic school. The lead teacher pointed to the area of the sanctuary and said, “Children, look up. What do you see?” Instead of saying the […]
Talk story: Taking homeless action to another level
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “I’ve been trying to think of how to have a discussion on what are the causes of all this; why is our economy such that it causes so many people to be homeless or in substandard housing, with two or three families living together?” (Bishop Larry Silva, “America” magazine, April 2017) […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: A heightened moral tension
Most people don’t need more tension in their life. However, frightening times are calling for intensified tension like never before. In his book “Power and Responsibility,” Father Romano Guardini tells us why: “We seem to be rushing toward an event which from the human point of view can only be described as global catastrophe … […]
Bill Dodds: Never-ending parenting
YOUR FAMILY A dear friend recently became a grandma for the first time and now the baby is “already” a month old. How did that happen so quickly? In a couple of months, two of my three children will “already” be in their 40s. How did that happen so quickly? When I think back to […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: No Roman reaction to resurrection?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I have always been puzzled by the lack of reaction to Christ’s resurrection from Jewish citizens and Roman officials. It is well-documented that Jesus suffered and died, and his execution was authorized by Roman leaders; but, even at a time of no media coverage, how could Christ’s return to life have gone […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: The Lord is truly risen
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; 1 Peter 3:15-18; John 14:15-21 The Acts of the Apostles once again this Easter season furnishes the first reading. In the readings of the weekends earlier in this season, the identity of the Apostles clearly has been established. In a critically important revelation, the Apostles exercised the very […]
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