Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

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 […]

Father Francisco ‘Kit’ Mendoza, Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament: God writes straight with crooked lines

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When I was studying in Manila, my school was close by the church. I frequently stopped in to visit with the Lord. I also was a member of the men’s Eucharistic League, a group of men dedicated to the Eucharist who would once a month spend an hour before the Eucharist. I was assigned to […]

Kathleen T. Choi | In little ways: Working on our witness

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In September, Stephen Colbert devoted an episode of “The Late Show” to Pope Francis’ visit. Joining him were four prominent Catholics: Archbishop Thomas Wenski, Maria Shriver, comedian Jim Gaffigan and journalist Andrew Sullivan. I felt Gaffigan was the best witness to our faith. “The reason I’m a Catholic is the notion of mercy. Because I […]

Father John Catoir: Finding the holy in supernatural events

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Have you ever had an out-of-body-experience? Hundreds of books have been written about it going back centuries. They generally report that the sensation of being lifted out of one’s body happens unexpectedly. You find yourself looking down on yourself below. It happened to me once, and it had a powerful influence on my life. Recently, […]

Christina Capecchi | Twenty Something: Life after the convent: finding the courage to start over

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There is no scrapbook of Kathy Webb’s life as a Dominican sister. No picture frames or friendship bracelets, no nun memorabilia perched in a closet or buried in a trunk. The only artifact from her convent days is the long apron she wore to protect her white habit, bearing her former identity on a tiny […]