VIEW FROM THE PEW Know how you tend to clip things out of publications when they are something you agree with? My collection from rail transit bashers got so unwieldy I actually ditched it, and I can’t quite decide to do the same with the Trump cartoons … yet. Last month I got out the […]
Kathleen T. Choi: Following the arrows
IN LITTLE WAYS The Long’s in downtown Hilo is a busy one, and the parking lot is usually full. The search for an empty stall often tempts drivers to ignore the directional arrows. The result can be two cars nose to nose with no room to maneuver. Few of those drivers would ignore arrows out […]
Bill Dodds: To former seminarians
YOUR FAMILY Soon after my grandson turned 11, I said to him, “Well, in three years you can move away from home.” He looked at me. “That’s what I did,” I said. He turned to his mom. “Really?” he asked since he knew his grandfather can be one who stretches the truth. “Really,” she said. […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: What is the ‘internal forum’?
Q: In a recent editorial in a Catholic newspaper, I read that, with regard to whether civilly remarried Catholics may receive holy Communion, Pope Francis is now encouraging people to talk to their priest “in the internal forum.” What does that mean?
Father Ron Rolheiser: Loyalty and patriotism revisited
In a recent article in “America” magazine, Grant Kaplan, commenting on the challenge of the resurrection, makes this comment: “Unlike previous communities in which the bond among members forges itself through those it excludes and scapegoats, the gratuity of the resurrection allows for a community shaped by forgiven-forgivers.” What he is saying, among other things, […]
Father John Catoir: God is with us even when our greatest joy seems to vanish
As a priest, I’ve spent the past 30 years of my life writing about supernatural joy in the lives of others. The message is simple: faith, together with the discipline of controlling your thoughts, can help overcome even the most horrible emotional pain we can experience. The pain of life, as many of us know, […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: A loving God restores life
The first reading comes from the First Book of Kings. As would be assumed, this book and its companion 2 Kings, are Old Testament writings about the kings of Israel. The kings certainly are mentioned, but these books are not political histories. In a way, the kings are not the principal figures.
Sister Diane Kraus, Daughters of St. Paul: Meditation up a notch
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald We need to nurture the spiritual life in us every day. I remember hearing on a TV report on how meditation in the secular world helps people to become more focused and at peace. When we take it up a notch, to […]
Mary Adamski: April moon, divinely shining
VIEW FROM THE PEW It’s time for the full moon Thursday and that can inspire romantic, poetic visions of strolling alongside moonlit waves. Or activate superstitions held by some law enforcement officers and others about moonbeams setting off weird behavior, lunacy. This full moon of April is profound beyond those earthly interpretations. Millions of people […]
Kathleen T. Choi: Peeking at poverty
IN LITTLE WAYS My husband and I got married when he was 22 and I was 18. He still had law school to complete, but we thought we could manage. He would work summers, and I would find a full time job that only required a high school diploma. We started well. Then our secondhand […]
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