OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Lord Jesus, You call us to a conversion of heart during Lent, and you give us the tools to do this through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. When we pray, help us remember the needs of our sisters and brothers. When we fast, help us offer our sacrifice in union with you. […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: In flight from sin and death
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
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 […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: A listening church
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS We are in the midst of an amazing time for our holy Catholic Church. A time where you have been invited to share your thoughts on how we can gather together in communion as communities of faith, how we can be in active participation in parish life and define the future mission […]
Effie Caldarola: Lessons from Monte Cassino
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 […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Why ‘Lead us not into temptation?’ Can you bring up the collection basket to the altar?
QUESTION CORNER Q: When we say the Lord’s Prayer at Mass, we pray, “Lead us not into temptation.” Why would God lead us into temptation? I know that God allows temptation to occur, but the word “lead” is an active verb that implies God may be actively involved in our being tempted. Would you please […]
Talk story: From our social ministry peripheries
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “We must personally reach out to the peripheries, to those who have left the Church, those who rarely or never practice their faith, those who experience poverty or marginalization, the excluded, the voiceless, etc.” (Vatican Synod Handbook for Listening and Discernment in Local Churches) Catholics around the world, including Hawaii, are […]
Bishop Larry Silva: ‘Here I am. Send me!’
WITNESS TO JESUS | FIFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Here is the prepared text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary time, delivered Feb. 6 at Mystical Rose Oratory at Chaminade University of Honolulu. The teenaged son of my best friend noticed that one of his classmates was depressed, and he […]
Effie Caldarola: Fishers of men
FOR THE JOURNEY Best fishing story of January: A small group of fishermen and an Irish fishing association stopped the Russian navy from conducting war games in fertile fishing territory off Ireland’s coast. The little band of Irish fishermen vowed that they would continue to send up to 60 trawlers continually into the waters during […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Is there a literal hell?
QUESTION CORNER Q: What is the Catholic view on whether there is an actual, literal hell? A lot of people, including some who are Catholics, while they believe in an actual, literal heaven, say that hell is simply death. (Indiana) A: Catholic theology holds that there is an actual, literal hell. The Catechism of the […]
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