Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Msgr. Owen F. Campion | 24TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME: The suffering servant

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Isaiah 50:5-9a; James 2:14-18; Mark 8:27-35 The last and third section of the Book of Isaiah provides the first reading for this weekend in Ordinary Time. This passage is one of several similar sections in Trito-Isaiah. Together they are called the Songs of the Suffering Servant. Poetic and expressive, they figure in the liturgies of […]

Father Kenneth Doyle | QUESTION CORNER: May my disabled husband receive the sacraments?

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Q: Over the past few years, my husband has suffered a traumatic brain injury and, more recently, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. I would like him to participate in all the sacraments, as he has done faithfully since he was a child. He attends Mass with me but does not remember any prayers, cannot […]

Manaolana | Christina Capecchi: The pope’s ravioli story: questions that unlock wisdom

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  I’m reading a book that speaks to me as a journalist, Brian Grazer’s 2015 release “A Curious Mind: The Secret To A Bigger Life.” In it, the 64-year-old Emmy-winning movie producer recounts his practice of conducting “curiosity conversations” twice a month for the past three decades to fill up his knowledge reserve and walk […]

Kathleen T. Choi: He talks with me

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Lily Tomlin jokes that when we talk to God, we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us, we’re said to be schizophrenic. Maybe I’m crazy, but I believe God talks to me. Frankly, he talks to me far more often than I listen. The primary way I hear God’s voice is through […]

Tony Magliano: No school for these children

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It’s that time again when adults celebrate Labor Day, and kids head back to school. But for millions of children worldwide the adventures of a new school year remain but a dream. Sadly, these children will never learn to read or write. They will not acquire computer skills. They will not experience singing in chorus, […]

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 […]