Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Sister Marie Rosso, Maryknoll Sisters: We all have a light within us

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald It is a missionary thing to accept people for who they are. To ask the questions that may help them to think differently. Or to give them something to ‘up the ante’ in realizing that everyone has goodness within them. In my […]

Greg Erlandson: Crisis: Church authorities and clergy sex abuse

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COMMENTARY When Catholic News Service posted a short video of the Pennsylvania attorney general’s Aug. 14 news conference announcing a grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse in six dioceses, its editors had to add a warning about the graphic language viewers would hear. The actual 900-page report chronicling 70 years of child sexual abuse […]

Effie Caldarola: What’s a Catholic to do?

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FOR THE JOURNEY The charges leveled against a former cardinal, Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, are sickening and almost unbearable to read. It’s horrible enough that former seminarians allege he invited them to a beach house with the certainty that he was always inviting one extra who would have to share his bed. But then comes […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: His love never ends

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21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Joshua 24:-2a, 15-17, 18b; Ephesians 5:21-32; John 6:60-69 The Book of Joshua provides this weekend’s first reading. The book draws its name from the ancient Israelite leader, Joshua, who followed Moses and actually guided the Hebrews into the land God had promised them. Fleeing from slavery in Egypt to settlement […]

Father Norlito Concepcion, Augustinians: Whatever God wills

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald My Augustinian confreres of the past are a great source of inspiration to me. In particular, it was the famous navigator and cosmographer Fray Andrés de Urdaneta who discovered the trade route from the west to the east across the Pacific. This […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: ‘I am the living bread’

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19TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 1 Kings 19:4-8; Ephesians 4:30-5:2; John 6:41-51 The First Book of Kings provides this weekend’s Liturgy of the Word with its first biblical reading. Unified Israel’s kings are the central figures in these books, although the prophets, such as Elijah, receive more prominent mention. This weekend’s reading refers to Elijah, […]

Christina Capecchi: Flowers for Mary

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TWENTY SOMETHING Janet Easter is experiencing Braxton Hicks contractions as she arranges a bouquet in her backyard, and she is unfazed. “I’m having contractions, which is hilarious,” she says, stripping the leaves off a hydrangea in one swift stroke. It’s 80 degrees on a Friday afternoon in a Pittsburgh suburb, and Janet is glowing, her […]