Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Richard Doerflinger: Assisted suicide: It’s about all of us

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A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY Even after working on an issue for decades, you can come across one thing that shifts your perception of what it’s about. That happened to me recently on the issue of physician-assisted suicide, thanks to an intrepid Swedish investigator named Fabian Stahle. Stahle saw support growing in his country for a […]

Sister Maria Joseph Petrill, Daughters of St. Paul: The life of an evangelizer

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald There was once a lady who came into our bookstore and told us that our children’s books had helped her family very much. Every night she would read stories on the faith or the saints to her children. Her husband, who was […]

Talk story: It’s Rice Bowl time

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OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “CRS Rice Bowl is not just about collecting money in a cardboard box. It is literally and symbolically a box full of stories of hope, prayers and opportunities to help put our faith into action and to share our Lenten journey with each other, transforming all our lives.” (Bishop Larry Silva, […]

Father Phillip Ganir, Society of Jesus (Jesuits): Why Jesus Christ?

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I think we are at a point where the study of catechetics has lost its luster because we focus so much on evangelization. Evangelization is very important. However, now we need to get back to catechetics again because we have to ask […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Do priests have a three-Mass-a-day limit?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: Recently I visited my home parish in Ohio (Diocese of Toledo). I was there to attend the 8:30 a.m. Mass on Dec. 24. Before Mass, the regular priest announced that there would be a substitute priest for that Mass because of the limit of “three Masses a day.” (The regular priest was […]