By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — With a sense of responsibility, commitment and concern for the environment and for the poor, people who are young adults today may be the last generation able to ensure a healthy future for all the Earth’s inhabitants, Pope Francis said. “Today our mother Earth is groaning […]
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Mary Adamski: Infrastructure ponderings
VIEW FROM THE PEW Infrastructure. Bah humbug. The word has become an expletive in my life, a yardstick to measure how I’ve failed to tackle basic maintenance, a possible scary signal that I’m losing it. I mutter it when I navigate through a room that has become the graveyard of abandoned projects, because whose fault […]
Effie Caldarola: Fire, drugs and greed
FOR THE JOURNEY It may have been a discarded cigarette thrown into a rag bin. No matter how it started, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City in 1911 took only 18 shocking minutes but changed history. The factory employed mostly young immigrant women, who labored long hours in a sweatshop for poverty-level […]
Talk story: The potential of migrants and refugees
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY We need to find a path forward that is rooted in solidarity and fraternity and that respects the rights and dignity of every migrant as a child of God made in his image.” (Archbishop Jose Gomez, president of the the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), June 2, 2021) On June […]
Talk story: A culture of care as a path to peace
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “We should always look to Our Lady, Star of the Sea and Mother of Hope. May we work together to advance toward a new horizon of love and peace, of fraternity and solidarity, of mutual support and acceptance.” Pope Francis, World Day of Peace Message, Jan. 1, 2021, “A Culture of […]
Frankincense’s future: Ancient gift endangered, risks depletion
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Gospel of Matthew never details how many Magi came from “the East,” but it makes it clear they traveled to pay homage to “the newborn king of the Jews” and “offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.” Beyond their great monetary value, scholars […]
Talk story: Sharing the abundance of aloha
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “We all owe much gratitude to Catholic Charities Hawaii, IHS, Family Promise, HOPE Services, the Salvation Army and our many faith communities who demonstrate community support for those who are in need. To continue their work, all these agencies need funding from the government, businesses, and private donors.” (Bishop Larry Silva, […]
Carolyn Woo: ‘Thank you’ is not enough
THE GLOBAL FAMILY One of my routines in the early pandemic lockdown was to shop at a big-box retailer at 6 a.m. Along with food, a key purchase was fabric and supplies that allowed me to make face masks with my very rudimentary sewing skills. Over the weeks, I struck up a rapport with the […]
The parish pantry
Island churches are feeding the hungry with healthier fare and backpacks of food for elementary students By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Every week, thousands of people in Hawaii go to their nearby Catholic church not for spiritual nourishment, but for something more ordinary and just as essential — food. More than half of the […]
Cause opens for beatification of 20th century ‘Damien’
By Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service MANCHESTER, England — The Vatican has allowed the bishops of Zimbabwe to open the sainthood cause of a British missionary murdered after he refused to abandon his ministry to people with Hansen’s disease during the country’s civil war. The cause for the beatification of John Bradburne, a lay member […]