Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

‘Thank you’ is a beautiful prayer, Francis tells children with autism

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Saying “thank you” to God is a beautiful prayer, Pope Francis told a group of children and teenagers with autism. “God likes that way of praying,” he said Sept. 21 during a brief audience with youngsters assisted by the Sonnenschein Center in St. Polten, Austria, and […]

Cardinal Becciu resigns as prefect, renounces his rights as cardinal

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  By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — In a move apparently related to Vatican financial scandals, Pope Francis accepted Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s resignation as prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes and his renunciation of the rights associated with being a cardinal, the Vatican announced late Sept. 24. The cardinal, 72, told […]

Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court

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By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Eight days after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President Donald Trump announced Sept. 26 that Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a judge on the Chicago-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, is his nominee to fill that seat. The president said he […]

Katie Prejean McGrady: Caught, not taught

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WINDOW SEAT WISDOM “Mom, you too slow. I do it.” The almost 3-year-old began to say the Hail Mary, complete with a little head bow at the name Jesus and a profoundly loud “Amen!” at the end. I stood there in stunned silence, and as I pulled the sheets up around her and gave her […]

John Garvey: Sweeter than the honeycomb

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INTELLECT AND VIRTUE I’m certainly not the first person to observe that the tone of our civic discourse has gotten increasingly angry. I have recently come to realize, though, that some people actually like it that way. This is not a sentiment confined to one end of the political or religious spectrum. Aristotle says in […]

Effie Caldarola: Interesting and challenging times

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FOR THE JOURNEY My granddaughter Charlotte posed for the traditional first day of kindergarten photo on the front porch of her home in New Jersey, wearing a new sequined-splattered outfit popular with the under-7 set. Then, like millions of American kids, she turned around, walked with her backpack into her own house, sat down at […]

Christianity in Middle East likened to a sinking ship

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By Doreen Abi Raad Catholic News Service BEIRUT — Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai warned that the Christian presence in the Middle East is shrinking and church leaders “are called to face the winds that blow in our homelands.” The assessment by the patriarch of Maronite Catholics during a meeting of the Middle East Council of […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: In the creed, what about women? Can Jews be a baptism sponsor?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: My recollection is that the text of the Mass in English was rewritten about 20 years ago — to be a more accurate translation and to eliminate sexist references. I wonder, however, if they missed something: in the Nicene Creed, our parish still prints, “For us men and for our salvation he […]

Pope to sign new encyclical in Assisi Oct. 3

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will travel to Assisi Oct. 3 to sign an encyclical on the social, political and economic obligations that flow from a belief that all people are children of God and therefore brothers and sisters to one another. The Vatican press office, confirming the pope’s […]

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