FAITH AT HOME How often do you think about how small you are? Not your size or shape, but the fact that you were once tinier than the period at the end of this sentence. Or the truth that you are one of almost 8 billion people on the planet today. Or the mind-boggling statistic […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: How did the pope and grand ayatollah communicate? As Catholics obligated to keep people on life support and tube feeding?
QUESTION CORNER Q: When the Holy Father and Ayatollah al-Sistani met recently, at the end they stood facing each other and seemed to be talking without an interpreter. What language did they use in order to communicate? (Powhatan, Virginia) A: According to the website of the Jesuit magazine America there was, in fact, an interpreter […]
Mary Adamski: Living the legacy of Babel
VIEW FROM THE PEW If you haven’t heard the expression “a Hail Mary” used completely outside the context of our religion, you must not hear or read sports commentators who love that reference to a prayer as shorthand for a last-ditch athletic performance that’s nothing short of a miracle. Another expression that has morphed away […]
Talk story: Ensuring no one is left behind
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “The truth however is that we are all in the same boat and called to work together so that there will be no more walls that separate us, no longer others, but only a single ‘we’, encompassing all of humanity.” (Pope Francis, Message for 2021 World Day of Migrants and Refugees) […]
Talk story: ‘Toward an ever wider we’
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “As a nation of immigrants, we have a moral obligation to help our brothers and sisters around the world who are in need.” (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, May 4, 2021) While America still struggles with COVID-19 and other social challenges, U.S. Catholics have been coming together to help our […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Jesus wants to make us one with him
WITNESS TO JESUS | SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Here is the prepared text of the homily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, and the celebration of Confirmation and first Communion, delivered by Bishop Larry Silva May 9 at Holy Family Church, Honolulu. What a blessing it is to be able to celebrate your Confirmation and […]
First Communion recipient overcomes obstacle, gives hope to others
By Janet Jones Catholic News Service COLUMBUS, Texas — Carson Crosby, a student at St. Anthony Catholic School in Columbus who received his first Communion this spring, faced a unique challenge. Carson has a genetic mitochondrial disease that prevents him from consuming food and drink orally. Since his infancy, he has been receiving nutrition through […]
Father Edgar Brillantes, diocesan priest: Missionary disciples
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald The gift of faith we received should be shared as a gift. Five hundred years ago, missionary priests, brothers and religious brought the faith to the Philippines. It is because of them that there are Filipino missionaries all over the world today […]
Sarah and David Herrmann: Mother’s and Father’s Day isn’t about me?
EMBRACING FAMILY Have you ever found yourself looking to the Fourth Commandment, “Honor your father and your mother,” as a remedy to the many challenges we face as parents? Our sweet, innocent newborns grow and discover a whole new lexicon. “NO!” or “I can do it all by myself!” They make incessant messes which seem […]
Christina Capecchi: Advice for grads from a curious Catholic
TWENTY SOMETHING George Corrigan never met a person who didn’t fascinate him. The delivery guy. The plumber. The barista. He wanted to know their names and their life stories, which came tumbling out when he flashed his megawatt smile and asked his earnest questions. His love of humanity flowed from his love of God, culminating […]
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