QUESTION CORNER Q: I am having a hard time understanding why a Catholic church closed by a bishop can no longer be used for Masses, weddings and funerals. For more than 100 years, this particular church — built by my great-great-grandparents — was considered sacred ground. Now my grandson wants to get married in […]
Greg Erlandson: Giving birth to a new movement
AMID THE FRAY In the 50th year since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision allowing abortion on demand, that same court has judged that case wrongly decided and kicked America’s most neuralgic issue back to its elected representatives. Pro-lifers have responded with joy that a goal so long desired has been attained. But whether […]
Laura Kelly Fanucci: Catching God at the ballfield
FAITH AT HOME As a mother of five boys, I have spent countless nights at baseball fields, but never have I glimpsed God in the dugout until tonight. Can I confess that I was bored by my own son’s game — bored only because his team was winning and he’d finished pitching, so my attention […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: God’s door is never closed
17TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Genesis 18:20-32; Colossians 2:12-14; Luke 11:1-13 The Book of Genesis is the source of this weekend’s first story. As with other passages in this marvelously profound religious book, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah sadly is often overwhelmed by arguments about where these cities were in Middle Eastern geography millennia […]
Christina Capecchi: The duty of delight
TWENTY SOMETHING Here we are, in the thick of summer, this deep and gentle place. The world is still broken, but we are given a season of delight. Sweet corn and watermelon, birdsong and bare feet and the nostalgic sensation of endless summer stretching out before us like a million tufts of cloud roaming the […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: The pope’s latest prayer intention
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TIPS Every month our Holy Father Pope Francis asks us to pray for a specific intention. For the month of July, the intention is the elderly. Every ohana, or family, should cherish its members who are the largest branches of the family tree, the kupuna, or elders. “Stand up in the presence of […]
Talk Story: Death comes to the archdiocese
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “What I wish for people is to foster a culture of life because there are so many signs of a culture of death … How do we foster a culture of life?” (Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, June 30, memorial Mass homily for 53 migrants found dead in San Antonio, Texas) We continue […]
Mary Adamski: Here’s to Catholic News Service
VIEW FROM THE PEW Every year the end of June sets off a rerun of grieving and grievance among a company of journalists and newspaper operational staffers who labored to keep island residents, and people interested in what happens here, fully informed about what’s happening in Hawaii. More than 500 of us were put out […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Being the good Samaritan
WITNESS TO JESUS | 15TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME This is the prepared text of the homily by Bishop Silva for July 10, the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered at Sacred Hearts Church, Lanai City, on the occasion of the reception of Confirmation and First Communion. Someone is bullied at school, and we just […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: How can one obtain relics? Why do priests leave the altar before the last song is done?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Please forgive my awful handwriting. I have multiple sclerosis and also Parkinson’s disease and can no longer do very well on a typewriter or computer. My question is: Why is it so hard to obtain first-class relics? (Also, do I need permission from my bishop to obtain them?) I am now 65 […]
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