Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Father Kenneth Doyle: ‘Last rites’ for a comatose person?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: My daughter, who was 50 years of age, became deathly ill, spent six weeks in the intensive care unit, then entered hospice to die. When death was imminent, a nurse finally found a priest to administer last rites. (It was a Jewish hospice, and they weren’t used to calling a priest.) By […]

Father Eugene Hemrick: More eloquence please

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THE HUMAN SIDE After making a giant step forward in modern communications, have we also taken two steps backward? Thanks to the internet, people are communicating with each other in wonderful ways. For example, shut-ins once disconnected from society are able to stay connected with friends, and we now have all sorts of libraries at […]

Sister Dorothea Pamplona, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: God’s own ways

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I never foresaw that when I became a religious that I would be sent to so many places to serve in so many varied capacities. From the Philippines I was missioned to Hawaii and Saipan, returning back to the Philippines. In September, […]

Richard Doerflinger: The Supreme Court as battleground

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A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY In its June 26 decision on freedom of speech, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a California law that forced pro-life pregnancy aid centers to tell pregnant women how to get an abortion. This “forced speech” policy, making Americans facilitate what they recognize as the unjust taking of human life, was […]

Effie Caldarola: Making a difference

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FOR THE JOURNEY Many years ago, the Irish poet W.B. Yeats wrote, “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” Some Americans feel those words are eerily prescient right now. Things are falling apart. The crisis created at our border bids us to take action, and political action is good. But no matter what our political […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Why no prayers for Trump-Kim summit?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: How do we change those Catholic Church leaders who have political bias and anger toward our president? Mr. Trump needed our prayers and support for his dialogue with North Korean President Kim Jong Un. But neither at the Sunday Mass I attended nor in our diocesan paper was there any mention of […]