Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Father Kenneth Doyle: When will we act on the priest shortage?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: I am very saddened now whenever I read the obituary notice for a priest — even if I haven’t known him personally — because I feel that this continues the downward spiral for the Catholic Church which has meant so much to me. (I am now 73.) When is the church going […]

Father John Catoir: Parish community and the spiritual life

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There are two things to remember about your spiritual life: 1) It extends way beyond your prayer life to the way you treat others, the way you spend your money, the way you maintain your self-respect and even to your politics; 2) It also includes the way you relate to God through your local parish. […]

Mary Adamski: All saints, all souls

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VIEW FROM THE PEW Seeking a text that would set the tone for a column this month, I found this: “People can expect gruesome scenes, horrifying sights, gory details and startling scares.” It’s clearly not biblical text, although ours and other religions could promise those possibilities in their teachings or their history. Nor is it […]

Father Emerson Delos Reyes, diocesan priest: Finding God in everything

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Saint Francis of Assisi has been a great inspiration to me. He was a lover of nature, and found God in even the smallest flower. For many of us, the tiny flowers that come out especially during summer may not seem to […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: The humble man is rewarded

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13TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18; 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18; Luke 18:9-14 The Book of Sirach, one of those books classified by scholars collectively as the Wisdom Literature, provides this weekend’s first Scriptural reading. The Wisdom Literature began when devout Jews and conscientious Jewish parents realized that, in the midst of the pagan […]

Talk Story: October stories of hope

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OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” (Hebrews 11:1) Despite a record rainfall flooding downtown Hilo on Oct. 5, more than 200 people, including folks from parishes across Hawaii island, gathered at Sangha Hall for the Hawaii Island Inter-Faith Coalition on Homelessness […]