Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Second in a series :History and evolution of the sacraments of initiation

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People are naturally creatures of habit. They sit in the same place each week at Mass. They eat the same food every Thanksgiving. Annually they look forward to Advent leading to Christmas and Lent culminating in Easter. The current practice in the Diocese of Honolulu is to confirm adolescents who were baptized as infants several […]

Kathleen T. Choi: All fired up

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Sunday we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost. We’ll remember the day the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples, looking like flames above their heads. But how often do we think about this third person of the Trinity, much less call upon him? He’s been part of us since baptism, yet the Holy Spirit remains the […]

Manaolana | Karen Osborne: Providing hope where none seems to exist

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I’ve been thinking a lot about hope, lately. I live in Baltimore and for the past few weeks, we’ve been in the news for peaceful and violent reasons. We’ve seen the entire spectrum of protest, from burning police cars to calm speeches in front of City Hall following the death of Freddie Gray, a Baltimore […]

Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk | Making sense of bioethics: What is VSED and why should it matter to us?

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More than 20 years ago, Dr. David Eddy, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, described how his mother, though not suffering from a terminal illness, chose to end her life through VSED (voluntarily stopping eating and drinking). She was “very independent, very self-sufficient, and very content.” When she began to be afflicted […]

Father Kenneth Doyle | Question Corner: I’m divorced. Can I be a Catholic?

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Q: I am a 68-year-old woman and am seriously considering converting to Catholicism. But I have been married more than once, have now been divorced for 11 years and, prior to the divorce, was separated for 10 years. I was exposed to Catholicism at an early age (when the service was in Latin), and I […]

Father John Catoir: Using dialogue to discuss difficult situations

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In today’s secular climate, it isn’t easy to guide teens along paths that will lead them to happier lives. Where do you begin talking to them about some of the potential problems they might face or the situations others might force them into? From drugs to sex, there’s an array of situations facing teenagers in […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion | Feast of Pentecost: We can refresh the world

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Acts 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23 In the church’s liturgical year, only Easter and Christmas eclipse Pentecost. The importance, and grandeur, of these feasts of course derive from the events being commemorated, but the church also records the lessons taught by the feasts, and through the readings for these feasts, instructs us in […]

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