VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald As a dentist, my enjoyment comes from working with people and delving into their stories. Drawing inspiration from a mainland dentist, I’ve embraced the idea that a successful interaction is when, after half an hour, I know everything about my patient while […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Be the light that leads others to Jesus
WITNESS TO JESUS | SOLEMNITY OF THE EPIPHANY Here is the prepared text of the homily delivered by Bishop Larry Silva, Jan. 7, at St. George Church, Waimanalo, on the occasion of the opening of the parish’s 70th anniversary year. We must never think of the Gospel as only something that happened long ago and […]
Father Patrick Briscoe: Shia LaBeouf’s conversion
COMMENTARY In August 2022, when “Transformers” star Shia LaBeouf revealed during a conversation with Bishop Robert Barron that he had experienced a conversion and begun to attend Mass, I wrote that LaBeouf seemed to me to have undergone a genuine change of heart. He spoke regretfully of the pain and harm he had caused […]
Effie Caldarola: Make a climate resolution
COMMENTARY Want some good news? The Archdiocese of Chicago announced on Dec. 17 that its nearly 400 parishes, schools, cemeteries and offices switched to 100% renewable energy for electricity needs beginning Jan. 1. This covers about 2,000 buildings and is the equivalent of removing 15,000 cars from the road annually. In his announcement, Cardinal […]
Jenna Marie Cooper: Protestants and the ‘Real Presence’?
QUESTION CORNER Q: What is the church currently teaching about the Real Presence in other denominations? I thought that at one time we recognized both the Lutherans and the Anglicans as having the Real Presence. Does that still hold true? Others? A: For context, let us recall that the Catholic teaching on the “real […]
Talk story: A careful, hopeful, joyful approach to 2024
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “He, the Only-Begotten Son of the Father, gives us ‘power to become children of God’ (Jn 1:12). This is the joy that consoles hearts, renews hope and bestows peace. It is the joy of the Holy Spirit: the joy born of being God’s beloved sons and daughters.” (Pope Francis, Christmas […]
Mary Adamski: ‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness’
VIEW FROM THE PEW “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said that in 1962, he was speaking about having faith as you move ahead through your life. The wisdom of the revered American civil rights leader being honored this week feels […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Simon, Andrew, James and John
3RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Jonah 3:1-5, 10; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20 The first reading for this weekend is from the Book of Jonah, an Old Testament writing seldom presented in the liturgy. While Jonah is the central figure in this book, he was not the author. The author is unknown. Scholars believe […]
Christina Capecchi: Put 2024 on paper
TWENTY SOMETHING He began at the beginning: “Left St. Paul Jan. 23rd 98 at 4:30 P.M.” In a leather-bound journal, his neat cursive scrolled in pencil across graph paper, Frank Storms charted his epic pursuit: to strike gold in Alaska. He arrived in 1898, in the middle of a stampede — some 100,000 prospectors […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Joy to the world, the Lord is come
WITNESS TO JESUS | CHRISTMAS Here is the prepared text of the homily of Bishop Larry Silva for Christmas, Dec. 24 and 25, delivered at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Honolulu; the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, Honolulu; and at St. Elizabeth Church, Aiea, with Chuukese Community. A man I know who grew […]
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