Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Father Eugene Hemrick | The Human Side: Making something good out of depression

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Without warning, depression hit me one day. Then came the panic attacks and mental paralysis. Life suddenly had no meaning. I found myself wanting to go back to sleep, hoping that when I awoke, I would be normal again. As I sat helplessly staring out the window, I remembered what an old Benedictine teacher once […]

John Garvey | Intellect and Virtue: Technology humanizes precious life

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Ultrasound technology was in its early days when my wife and I were having children. Pictures of our babies in utero always looked like Rohrschach blots to me. I couldn’t tell top from bottom. The doctors could, though. It became possible for the first time to tell the sex of the baby before it was […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Should we go to weddings of cohabitating couples?

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Q: My husband and I have an issue that we really struggle with. We are often invited to the wedding of a Catholic couple who have already been living together. We understand cohabitation before marriage to be very wrong in the eyes of God and of the church. Should we go to these weddings? It […]

John Garvey: The pill and same-sex marriage

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Many people have expressed surprise at the speed with which same-sex unions went from being a crime and a sin to being a constitutional right. Exactly 50 years ago, to far less fanfare, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that married couples had a constitutional right to prescription contraceptives. (The FDA had approved […]

Kathleen T. Choi: Control

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I’ve been thinking a lot about Adam and Eve lately. I’ll say why in a minute. First, let’s look at the story. God creates the earth and fills it with all that is necessary to sustain life. Its abundance is that of a lush garden. He creates a man and a woman to tend this […]