Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Revised texts for Eucharistic adoration set to take effect

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By Gina Christian OSV News Three years after being approved by the U.S. Catholic bishops, updates to the ritual texts for distribution of holy Communion outside of Mass and for Eucharistic adoration will take effect. The revised version of “Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery outside Mass” will be implemented on the First […]

Parishes embrace call to care for creation

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By Anna Dougherty OSV News ARLINGTON, Texas — On a balmy day in Arlington, Carol Stilley walked through a garden created by members of the Most Blessed Sacrament Parish. Bees traveled from flower to flower as stems stretched their leaves up to catch the morning sun. When Stilley looked above her, five monarch butterflies fluttered […]

Honoree tells women religious to stay hopeful

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By Dan Stockman OSV News ORLANDO, Fla. — Sister Nancy Schreck has worked with congregations of women religious across the country and around the world, spent years in high school classrooms, and ministered for decades with other sisters in rural Mississippi. After all that experience she has this to say about Catholic sisters: “We are […]

2028 Games called ‘great opportunity’ for U.S. church

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By Gina Christian OSV News With Los Angeles set to host the Summer Olympics and Paralympics in 2028, the Catholic Church in the U.S. is “in the quad” — a four-year period of training between the global competitions — to hone its evangelization game, a priest and former Olympian told OSV News. “Let’s spiritually respond, […]

Japanese sister was Marian visionary

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By Gina Christian Maria Wiering OSV News A Japanese woman religious and Marian visionary has died some five decades after witnessing the miraculous weeping of a statue of Mary and receiving urgent messages to pray in reparation for humanity’s sins. Sister Agnes Sasagawa, a member of the Institute of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart […]

Aid workers reeling from ‘unprecedented’ year of death

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By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News As the world marked World Humanitarian Day 2024 this month, the latest figures on the dire circumstances aid workers face on the front line highlight the alarming increase in attacks against them and their work to relieve the suffering of civilians caught in the crossfire. The aid research advocacy […]

U.S. bishops support affordable-housing bill

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By Kate Scanlon OSV News WASHINGTON — Legislation under consideration in Congress would help faith-based organizations respond to a shortage in affordable housing by easing restrictions on the use of their land to develop affordable housing, supporters say. The Yes in God’s Backyard Act, introduced in March by Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the […]

Indigenous women embrace religious life

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By Rhina Guidos OSV News SAN ANDRES SEMETABAJ, Guatemala — Sister Marta Yach Cosme walked through one of the gardens of the motherhouse of the Missionary Sisters of the Eucharist, touching the fronds of the ubiquitous plants and squeezing the herbs with the tips of her fingers, explaining their medicinal purposes. “We have to have […]

U.S. bishops OK pastoral plan for Indigenous faithful

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By Gina Christian OSV News LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — The U.S. Catholic bishops have approved a new pastoral plan for Indigenous Catholics, almost half a century since the last such document. “Keeping Christ’s Sacred Promise: A Pastoral Framework for Indigenous Ministry” was approved by a vote of 181 to 2, with three bishops abstaining, on June […]