VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald This interview was conducted before this year’s Easter Vigil service at St. Rita Church in Nanakuli, one of two Catholic churches located on Hawaiian home lands. St. Rita’s Church has been my church home for over 30 years. Living on the Waianae […]
Talk story: Constructing bridges and not walls
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “To make migration a choice that is truly free, efforts must be made to ensure to everyone an equal share in the common good, respect for his or her fundamental rights, and access to an integral human development … Only in this way will we be able to offer to each […]
Jenna Marie Cooper: Does original sin need an update?
QUESTION CORNER Q: My Catholic grandmother used to say that “original sin” was a sort of stamp all people since Adam and Eve have been born with, where God is still holding people guilty of Adam and Eve’s sin of disobedience even up through today, and that unless this stamp is removed through baptism, people […]
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio: Migrants: To move or not to move
WALKING WITH MIGRANTS A statement titled “The right not to have to migrate” was recently issued by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. But what does the right not to migrate actually mean? This basic principle of Catholic social teaching regarding migration sometimes causes confusion because it seems contradictory. Some would say: […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Entering the sheepfold
WITNESS TO JESUS | FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Here is the prepared text of the homily by Bishop Larry Silva for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, delivered April 29 and 30 at Mary, Star of the Sea Church, Honolulu, and Holy Family Church, Honolulu, both on the occasion of administering Confirmation and first holy […]
Mary Adamski: Passing the Kalaupapa baton
VIEW FROM THE PEW Why is it that we humans have this need to measure events, people, what’s important in life, by using numbers? How many years of life, of service, birthdays, anniversaries, we count them. Money counting is important, how much spent, saved, paid, stolen; and there’s the relentless daily stories about spending by […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Celebrating the Risen Lord
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; 1 Peter 3:15-18; John 14:15-21 The Acts of the Apostles once again this Easter season furnishes the first reading. In the readings of the weekends earlier in this season, the identity of the Apostles clearly has been established. In a critically important revelation, the Apostles exercised the very […]
Christina Capecchi: Hand-me-downs, pick-me-ups
TWENTY SOMETHING It all started with a used coat. Betty Henson didn’t need her fuzzy green coat anymore, so she offered it to her son, an aspiring puppeteer. Jim stuffed and stitched it, creating a round head, a dense torso and lanky limbs. He folded a deep mouth and split a ping pong ball to […]
Mary Duddy: Always a mother
THE MARRIED LIFE Alzheimer’s disease is a malady that affects many families, including mine. It can be devastating. But, as Christians, it provides opportunities for us to love. My mother suffered from Alzheimer’s, as did her mother. But she was still our mother, in need of care and attention, just as she had given her […]
Sister Gloria Camitan, Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena: Two apps for prayer
VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Bulacan in the Philippines holds a place of great historical importance to me and my religious congregation. The first group of missionary Sisters of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena came from Madrid and joined with the […]
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