Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

U.S. bishops urge special collection as Gaza crisis deepens

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OSV News The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference called for a special collection to bolster the Catholic Church’s response to a deepening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas war continues to grind on. In a letter to his brother bishops, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic […]

Monastery that survived atomic blast remains symbol of peace

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By Katarzyna SzalajkoOSV News WARSAW, Poland — Eighty years ago, two of the world’s deadliest weapons were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, bringing near-total destruction. But a Catholic monastery built in Nagasaki by a future martyr and saint survived and to this day brings a Franciscan message of peace to a place that could […]

U.K. grateful for St. John Henry Newman’s elevation to doctor of the church

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By Jonathan LuxmooreOSV News OXFORD, England — British Catholics welcomed a papal decision to elevate St. John Henry Newman, a former Protestant and Oxford University chaplain, to the historic status of doctor of the universal church. “This request has been before the Holy See for some time, having received declarations of support from many different […]

Patriarchs’ visit heartens survivors of Gaza church attack

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By Judith SudilovskyOSV News JERUSALEM — Parishioners of Gaza’s Holy Family Church are feeling “horror” and almost a sense of “desperation” after an Israeli tank shell struck the church, killing three elderly people sheltering there and injuring 10, said Joseph Hazboun, regional director of the Jerusalem office of Catholic Near East Welfare Association, or CNEWA. […]

Catholic agencies back legislation for online safety, trafficking victims

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By Kurt JensenOSV News WASHINGTON — Two Catholic service organizations have joined forces to back three new pieces of legislation designed to both help victims of human trafficking and enhance safety for children online. Representatives of the Alliance to End Human Trafficking and the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd spoke […]

Supporters of trailblazing priest rally for his sainthood cause

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By Catherine M. OdellOSV News SOUTH BEND, Indiana — Near the anniversary of his sudden and early death from a heat stroke on a hot, steamy Chicago street in July 1897, supporters of Venerable Augustus Tolton (1854-1897) gathered in South Bend to pray, discuss and recommit to promoting his cause for sainthood. This was the […]

California bishop allows faithful to stay home amid raid fears

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By Kate Scanlon OSV News Amid concern over immigration enforcement raids in the area, the bishop of San Bernardino, California, on July 8 issued a dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass for the faithful if they fear for their well-being. The Trump administration in January rescinded long-standing restrictions on arrests at sensitive locations, […]

Texas flood victims need compassion and time, archbishop says

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OSV News SAN ANTONIO — Deadly July 4 flash floods in western Texas have so far claimed at least 120 lives, including those of 27 children at a Christian summer camp. After his pastoral visit to flood-ravaged Kerr County, Texas, over the July 4 holiday weekend — which included the celebration of Mass July 6 […]

Pope’s summer holiday will still be filled with work

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OSV News ROME — Pope Leo XIV began his summer break July 6 at Castel Gandolfo, where he’ll stay through July 20. But don’t expect the Holy Father to simply relax. According to Augustinian Father Alejandro Moral Anton, a longtime friend, Pope Leo plans to draft the framework of his first encyclical during the break […]