Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Pope ‘very attentive’ to U.S. immigration advocates in meeting

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By Kate ScanlonOSV News WASHINGTON — Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with the immigrant community in the U.S. and urged the church to be a united voice on their behalf in an Oct. 8 private audience with immigration advocates. Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, told OSV News that in the brief meeting […]

European officials are urged to embrace ‘healthy secularism’

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By Cindy WoodenCatholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV encouraged members of the European Parliament to pursue “a healthy secularism” that maintains the distinction between religions and governments. “European institutions need people who know how to live a healthy secularism, that is, a style of thinking and acting that affirms the value of […]

World Communications Day to call for responsible tech use

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By Cindy WoodenCatholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV, the subject of dozens of “deepfake” videos, has chosen “Preserving human voices and faces” as the theme for the Catholic Church’s celebration of World Communications Day in 2026. The Dicastery for Communication announced the theme Sept. 29. Just two weeks after his election in […]

Bishops’ subcommittee on fighting racism gains permanent status

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By Gina ChristianOSV News The U.S. Catholic bishops have deepened their commitment to combating racism by making permanent a subcommittee dedicated to working for racial justice and reconciliation in society. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Sept. 10 that its Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism — established in 2017 under then-USCCB president, and now […]

Philippine-born priest to serve as auxiliary bishop in San Jose diocese

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OSV News Pope Leo XIV has appointed Father Andres “Andy” C. Ligot as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Jose, California. The appointment was announced Aug. 29 in Washington by Msgr. Veceslav Tumir, charge d’affaires at the apostolic nunciature, in the temporary absence of Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States. The […]

Religious women consider ‘emerging future’ at assembly

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By Andrew NelsonThe Georgia Bulletin / OSV News ATLANTA — From a message that “dread is not of God” to a “pilgrimage of hope,” several hundred Catholic sisters and guests gathered in downtown Atlanta Aug. 12-15 for the annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. During days of conversation, prayer and friendship, the […]

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. […]