Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Jenna Marie Cooper: Is Sister Wilhelmina a saint? Can you drink water before Mass?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: Does the incorrupt body of the Benedictine nun, Sister Wilhelmina, mean that she is a saint? What does the church think of it? (Farmingville, New York) A: We say that a saint is “incorrupt” when, years after their death, their mortal body is found to have remained in an unexplained state of […]

‘Please hear us, please help us,’ Nigerian bishop pleads’

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By Kimberley Heatherington OSV News WASHINGTON — “Death does not announce any day,” cautions a Nigerian proverb. It’s advice the Catholic faithful of the Diocese of Makurdi — in Nigeria’s Benue state — are grimly familiar with as they and their Christian neighbors endure a sustained campaign of terrorism now stretching into a second decade. […]

Benedictine foundress’ remains claimed to be intact

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Incorruptible Benedictine foundress, whose remains have been claimed to be intact, recounted childhood visions of Jesus, Mary By Maria Wiering OSV News Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster of the Most Holy Rosary claimed to have had profound religious experiences, beginning in her childhood. She was born Mary Elizabeth Lancaster April 13, 1924 in St. Louis. Her great-grandmother, […]

Russell Shaw: Do we still want our Sabbath?

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  COMMENTARY Both the extent and the limitations of the Supreme Court’s power are visible in a pending case raising the question of how far employers must go to accommodate employees’ religion. Underlying this dispute — yet obviously unreachable by the Supreme Court — is the larger reality of the sabbath’s de facto secularization in […]

Pope Francis creates ecclesiastical province of Las Vegas

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Viva Las Archdiocese By OSV News WASHINGTON — Pope Francis has created the ecclesiastical province of Las Vegas, comprised of the Archdiocese of Las Vegas and the suffragan dioceses of Reno, Nevada, and Salt Lake City. He also named Las Vegas Bishop George Leo Thomas to be the first metropolitan archbishop of Las Vegas. Archbishop […]