Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

South Sudanese threatened by famine, worsened by war, CRS says

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Some 5 million people in South Sudan — half of its total population — are on the brink of starvation and a quarter of a million children are already severely malnourished, a representative from the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief Services said. Famine has already gripped 100,000 […]

Restoration on Jesus’ tomb signals church cooperation

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By Judith Sudilovsky Catholic News Service JERUSALEM — Less than a year after restoration work began, the Edicule — the traditional site of Jesus’ burial and resurrection — was inaugurated in an ecumenical ceremony led by representatives of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Armenian churches, including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. The 200-year-old structure […]

Priest pleads for safety of N. Korean Christians

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By Catholic News Service PARIS — A French Catholic priest working with North Korean refugees in China said conditions have worsened for surviving Christians under the dictatorship of Kim Jong Un and urged the Chinese government to give shelter to fugitives from the communist-ruled country. Father Philippe Blot, who works with the Paris Foreign Mission […]

Holy Father recognizes miracle attributed to Fatima visionaries

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By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has approved the recognition of a miracle attributed to the intercession of two of the shepherd children who saw Our Lady of Fatima in 1917, thus paving the way for their canonization. Pope Francis signed the decree for the causes of Blesseds Francisco […]

Accompanied by the church, indigenous people fight for rights in Amazon rainforest

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By Barb Fraze Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The railroad runs more than 550 miles through 27 communities in the Brazilian Amazon. It runs so close to people’s homes that the houses have cracked, and some people have hearing loss. The trains carry minerals out of the rainforest to the coast. But the tracks separate […]

Father Eugene Hemrick: Two sides of devotion

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  THE HUMAN SIDE “Zion said, ‘The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.’ Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you” (Is 49:14-15). Isaiah’s prophetic message that God is eternally devoted to us is needed now […]

Archdiocese announces beatification date for Oklahoma priest

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By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City announced that one its native sons, Father Stanley Rother, a North American priest who worked in Guatemala and was brutally murdered there in 1981, will be beatified Sept. 23 in Oklahoma. “It’s official! Praised be Jesus Christ! Archbishop Coakley received official word […]

Francis’ response on married priests not so new after all

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By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — While Pope Francis’ recent comments on the subject of married priests made headlines around the world, his response falls clearly in line with the thinking of his predecessors. In an interview with German newspaper Die Zeit, published in early March, Pope Francis was asked if […]