Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Richard Doerflinger: Shall we manufacture our children?

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A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY “In the year 6565,/ Ain’t gonna need no husband, won’t need no wife,/ You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too/ From the bottom of a long glass tube.” When “In the Year 2525” became a hit song in 1969, author Richard Lee Evans couldn’t have known his prediction about the […]

Talk story: Our immigrants, migrants and refugees

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OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “May these migrants meet brothers and sisters under every sky, who share with them the bread and hope of the common path.” (Pope Francis) Our Holy Father often calls us to reflect on how we can encounter Christ by walking with migrants on our shared journey of life. Pope Francis said, […]

Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, retired: Good to the last drop

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING By Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald “Whrrr …” sounded the elevator before coming to a stop. “Thump … shuffle … thump … shuffle.” The cane coursed the polished wooden floor toward the kitchen with stiffened leg in tow. After a pause, for a cup of coffee perhaps, the thump […]

Laura Kelly Fanucci: The sacred act of dishwashing

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FAITH AT HOME I hate dishwashing. Laundry, I love: transforming jumbled heaps of tumbled clothes into neat, folded piles. Sweeping is satisfying. Wiping counters, even scrubbing sinks, brings simple pleasure. But I cringe at crusty pots and pans. Any night of the week, I’d trade for any other chore. Yet life in a household requires […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Is yoga communing with devil?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: My wife was recently at a gathering of her prayer group that meets every week. At the end of this particular meeting, a deacon spoke to the group and said something that has disturbed both of us. He said that when you practice yoga, you are communicating with the devil. Neither of […]

Father John Catoir: Stay calm

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Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: “Most of us reflect our surroundings. However, men (and women) with quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened; they carry on in times of fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.” I love that quote, but I must admit, I do not always have […]

Richard Doerflinger: A population implosion?

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A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY Remember when everybody worried about a “population explosion” filling the world with too many people? In the 1970s, this fear drove campaigns to legalize abortion and pour billions of dollars into birth control programs. Now experts warn about the opposite. While birth rates remain relatively high in developing nations, they are […]