Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Manaolana | Christina Capecchi: Let’s hear it for the nuns!

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When Mary Margaret Gefre’s boyfriend drove her to the train station in their small North Dakota town, the 19-year-old farm girl didn’t tell him where she was headed on that brisk December day, clutching a small bag containing a rosary, her childhood prayer book, a few dresses and a pair of shoes. She was bound […]

Mary Adamski: With Lent, thoughts of food

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Something about Ash Wednesday brings out the child in us. We’re going to hear the familiar Gospel account of Jesus telling the disciples not to flaunt their praying, almsgiving and fasting to get public attention. But we’re going to hope Father swishes a good dark gob of ashes on our forehead so we can walk […]

Kathleen T. Choi: Till death do us part

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My grandfather retired from the piano company at age 73, but within months he’d started a new job selling cars. My mother said that Gramma made him go back to work. “She married him,” Mom explained, “for better or worse, but not for lunch.” It’s a cute story, and the sympathy cards I received when […]

Kathleen T. Choi: Once upon a Protestant

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I’ve often written about why I treasure Catholicism. Today I thought I’d praise the things I believe our Protestant brethren do especially well. Biblical knowledge. Fundamentalists and evangelicals, in particular, know their way around the Bible like they know their morning commute. When they read the New Testament, they hear all the Old Testament echoes. […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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The author of the Commandments Sirach 15:15-20 1 Corinthians 2:6-10 Matthew 5:17-37 The Book of Sirach that is the source of this weekend’s first reading is part of a collection of biblical writings that in their very origin teach an important lesson. As various fortunes, political, economic, and individual, changed and reversed among God’s people […]