Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Manaolana | Sidebar: May 23, 2014

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Quote “God will have a bit of explaining to do to me if I ever see him.” –Jacqueline Kennedy, writing to her friend Father Joseph Leonard in January 1964, not long after her husband, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. The correspondence between Jacqueline Kennedy and Father Leonard — in which the former first […]

Manaolana | Christina Capecchi: Biking across Iowa for the heart and soul

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When Father Joe Schneider climbs onto his 27-speed Trek Pilot and dips its front tire into the Missouri River, his summer vacation has officially begun. Then he pushes off and bikes across Iowa. The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, better known as RAGBRAI, began in 1973 when two reporters from the Des Moines […]

Manaolana | Lisa’s catechism corner: Was Mary only an instrument of God?

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YOUCAT*: Mary was more than a merely passive instrument of God. The Incarnation of God took place through her active consent as well. [493-494, 508-511] When the angel spoke to Mary and told her that she would bear the Son of God, she didn’t say, “You got the wrong person.” She responded, “May it be […]

Manaolana | Lisa’s catechism corner: Why do we yearn for happiness?

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YOUCAT*: “God has placed in our hearts such an infinite desire for happiness that nothing can satisfy it but God himself. All earthly fulfillment gives us only a foretaste of eternal happiness. Above and beyond that, we should be drawn to God.” [1718-1718, 1725] I was in Washington, D.C., last week and, while visiting the […]

Manaolana | An award-winning graphic novel tells a story of faith and rebellion in China

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NEW YORK — “Boxers & Saints” (First Second Books), a two-volume graphic novel written and drawn by Gene Luen Yang, is an example of comic art at its best. Author Yang is a practicing Catholic who teaches computer science at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, Calif., (where Bishop Larry Silva graduated). But “Boxers & […]

Manaolana | Sidebar: May 9, 2014

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Quote “The days of old, fat, balding bishops being the best spokespeople is long gone, if they were ever really here at all.” | Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, in his keynote address April 28 at a conference for Catholic communicators sponsored by the school of church communications at the Pontifical University of […]

Christina Capecchi: The big reveal: looking back at God’s plan

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Blue or pink? That was the secret contained in the cake. My younger brother and his wife are always looking for an excuse to throw a themed-party — a World Series game for the Cardinals, an end-of-the-world prediction, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. They couldn’t resist the opportunity to kick-start the […]

Manaolana | Lisa’s catechism corner: Do we believe in one God, or three?

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YOUCAT*: We believe in one God in three persons (Trinity). “God is not solitude but perfect communion.” (Pope Benedict XVI, May 22, 2005). [232-236, 249-256, 261, 265-266] St. Patrick’s Day not only reminds me of green beer, my godfather (Uncle Pat), but also the Holy Trinity. Here’s how the legend goes: When Patrick was preaching […]