Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Father Kenneth Doyle: Why hasn’t the church condemned boxing? And what’s the church say about flags on the altar?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: Why has the Catholic Church not condemned boxing? It is the only sport in the world whose purpose is to hurt your opponent, even to knock him out. People in other sports get hurt, but the purpose is not evil. The goal is to get a home run or a basket or […]

Sister Mary Josephine Araki, Congregation of the Sacred Hearts: There is grace in obedience

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Jesus makes me go. He says, “Do this. Do that.” I sometimes argue with Jesus. But there is grace in obedience. In religious life, we do what we need to do. When I entered the convent, we were told what we were […]

Christina Capecchi: Bedtime stories of saints

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TWENTY SOMETHING We never really outgrow the desire for a bedtime story. It just takes different forms when we’re older: Netflix, the evening news, Instagram Stories. But the original cannot be improved upon, the bare-bones version told in the dark. When it doesn’t come with special effects, it flips on more lights in the listener’s […]

Bishop Larry Silva: Symptoms and manifestations

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WITNESS TO JESUS | 22ND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME This is the prepared text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time delivered, Aug. 28 at St. Philomena Church, Honolulu, and Aug. 29 at Immaculate Conception Church, Ewa. Both Masses celebrated Confirmations and first holy Communions. The actual homily was modified […]

Talk story: Welcomed, protected, promoted, integrated

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OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “The Church is called to go out into the streets of every existential periphery to heal wounds and to seek out the suffering, without prejudice or fear, but ready to widen her tent to embrace everyone. Among those dwelling in those existential peripheries, we find many migrants and refugees, displaced persons […]

Greg Erlandson: Lethal tenderness

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AMID THE FRAY By the time Dr. Jack Kevorkian was put in prison for second-degree murder, he had helped an estimated 130 patients kill themselves. The first person he “helped” was an Oregon teacher suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. It was hardly “death with dignity.” With a suicide machine he had rigged up inside his rusty […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Did God ‘require’ sacrifice of Jesus? Plus: What to do about a regularly disruptive adult at Mass?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: I wonder about Jesus being a “sacrifice” for the expiation of sins. Why did God the Father “require” that Christ be a “sacrifice” for the forgiveness of the sins of mankind? (Louisville, Kentucky) A: I don’t believe that God the Father “required” that Jesus die such a gruesome death to redeem us […]

Christina Capecchi: The hidden power of play

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TWENTY SOMETHING Every fall the push to do more intensifies. Sharpen your pencil and dig in. Produce more, study more, socialize more, exercise more, volunteer more. The calendar becomes the battlefield, its squares squeezed ever tighter. If summer is for vacation, fall is for achievement. But we are forgetting something. The very thing we consider […]