FAITH AT HOME “I wish we didn’t have to talk about this.” What parent hasn’t thought or uttered these words, taking a deep breath before jumping into a hard conversation with their child? Whether a crisis at home, a conflict at school or an atrocity in the news, tough subjects are unavoidable in families. The […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Building on the foundation of Jesus Christ
WITNESS TO JESUS | MASS FOR THE OPENING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, 2018 Here is the text of the Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the Mass for the opening of the school year for Catholic school educators, delivered Aug. 16 at St. Ann Church, Kaneohe. This evening at 6 p.m. there will be a Mass […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Is the death penalty out completely?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I have always been against the death penalty — since the prisoner is behind bars and removed from doing further harm to the public. But a recent piece in The Wall Street Journal included statements by criminals who said that they were not as aggressive with victims when they knew there […]
Christina Capecchi: Breaking up with your phone
TWENTY SOMETHING Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash I’ve been emailing my friend Becky, a newspaper editor in South Dakota, about our growing desire to unplug. We used to compare notes on “Dancing With the Stars,” but lately we’re both watching less TV. “My eyes have started to reject going from screen to screen,” she emailed […]
Karl A. Schultz: Pope Paul VI: prophet, pilgrim of peace
Commentary The canonization of Pope Paul VI on Oct. 14 makes this an opportune time to look back on the years surrounding the Second Vatican Council in order to put in context the present state of the ongoing implementation of the conciliar reforms. Blessed Paul VI, who was pope from 1963 to 1978, was arguably […]
Jayne Ragasa-Mondoy: Enlisting witnesses for Jesus Christ
CATECHETICAL SUNDAY 2018 A friend of mine recounted an experience on a recent trip to Israel. Traveling through the arid countryside, his tour group paused to admire a section of verdant pasture. There, he observed two shepherds conversing with one another. As the shepherds spoke, their flocks of sheep merged together, forming a large, single […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: God forgives, we are restored
23RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 35:4-7a; James 2:1-5; Mark 7:31-37 The first reading for this weekend, from the Book of Isaiah, speaks of the blind, the deaf and the lame. Today’s culture is very different from that in which this section of Isaiah was written. Physical impairments now can be managed in most cases. […]
Mary Adamski: ‘All generations will call me blessed’
VIEW FROM THE PEW A wonderful time was had by all at a celebration memorializing the death of a woman whose remarkable life was a legacy to Hawaii, to the church and to people who make care of the poor and afflicted their career, vocation or goal in life. We all belted out a melody […]
Sister Marie Rosso, Maryknoll Sisters: We all have a light within us
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
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 […]
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