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Sarah and David Herrmann: Lenten trash or recyclable?

03/16/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

EMBRACING FAMILY Many parents ask us questions, and we share faith-based parenting advice, based on Love and Logic © and the Preventive System of St. John Bosco (Reason, Religion, Loving Kindness). We’d like to share some of these with you. In case you’re wondering, this has nothing to do with our black garbage bin or […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: How can I remain a Catholic?

03/16/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q: How, in good conscience, can I remain a practicing Catholic with all the scandal and hypocrisy exposed within the church? So many of the church’s actions seem far removed from the message of Jesus. The church gathers riches upon the earth, has its own country, bank and government and has a hierarchy. […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Turn humbly to God

03/16/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15; 1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12; Luke 13:1-9 In the first reading, from the Book of Exodus, Moses encountered God. Moses was tending his father-in-law’s flock when suddenly an angel appeared and led Moses to a bush. The bush, although on fire, did not burn. Then God spoke, the God […]

Bishop Larry Silva: Sign me up!

03/16/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

WITNESS TO JESUS | FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT Here is the prepared text of the homily by Bishop Larry Silva for the First Sunday in Lent celebrated March 5 at St. Anthony Church, Wailuku, with the Rite of Election; at Christ the King Church, Kahului; and March 6 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa, Honolulu, […]

Bishop Larry Silva: Proclaiming, and living, the Word

03/02/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

WITNESS TO JESUS | SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Here is the prepared text of the homily of Bishop Larry Silva for the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time, delivered Feb. 13, at St. Stephen Diocesan Center, Kaneohe, for the Mass for the institution as lectors of deacon candidates. When I was director of vocations in […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: In flight from sin and death

03/02/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT Deuteronomy 26:4-10; Romans 10:8-13; Luke 4:1-13 The Book of Deuteronomy provides the first reading for this first Sunday of Lent. Deuteronomy looks to the days when the Hebrews were fleeing from Egyptian slavery and making an uncertain way across the treacherous Sinai Peninsula. Even so, Deuteronomy is not a story of […]

Christina Capecchi: The Catholic creative

03/02/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

TWENTY SOMETHING The idea came in a dream. It was just like the movies, the fantasy of every writer who has slogged away at a keyboard, awaiting inspiration. Haley Stewart’s came. “I woke up, and I was like: ‘I have to write this story! It was just given to me!’” Over the years the 36-year-old […]

Effie Caldarola: Lessons from Monte Cassino

03/02/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

FOR THE JOURNEY The hairpin turns were gasp-inducing, especially to someone afraid of heights. As we climbed higher and higher, I alternated between covering my eyes and then peeking out at the remarkable landscape unfolding beneath the narrow Italian road that spiraled up toward the peak of Monte Cassino. I was on my way to […]