Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Talk story | Office for Social Ministry: Ulu, the Chuukese and one ohana

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“Praised be you, my Lord, through our Sister Mother Earth, who sustains us and who produces various fruit.” (St. Francis of Assisi: “Canticle of Creatures”) This summer on the Big Island, Chuukese women from St. Joseph Parish in Hilo and Sacred Heart Parish in Pahoa drove up the Hamakua Coast in two vans singing and […]

Kathleen T. Choi: Little numbers

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Each day’s news brings big numbers: more than 7,000 homeless in Hawaii, 45 million refugees worldwide, 210 million impoverished. It’s hard to comprehend such numbers, and it’s hard not to feel defeated by them. But I believe in the power of little numbers. I believe ordinary Christians can be powerful servants for the Lord through […]

Manaolana | Karen Osborne: What if you were a refugee?

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I was shopping at the neighborhood corner store, just minding my own business, when the cashier started to talk with his customer about the refugee crisis in Europe. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are streaming into Europe from war-torn Syria, Iraq and other Middle East and African countries. They are looking for an escape from […]

Manaolana | Makana Aiona: Practical preaching

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Today’s tip: Use Mass announcements to preach discipleship, practical steps and life change I am a (University of Washington) Husky. The UW has a Newman Center just off campus in the heart of Greek Row. At this Newman Center, there was always a “production” type Mass announcement that got people either laughing or clapping, but […]

Heralding back: Oct. 23, 2015

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NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Oct. 22, 1965 George Barati (right) rehearses with Shigeru Hotoke (filling in for Richard Kness, tenor, who had not arrived from Washington), Ethel Chung Maxson, Eunice DeMello, and Charles Scharbach (left to right) for tonight’s performance of Beethoven’s MISSA SOLEMNIS. This is the first time this masterpiece […]