Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Father Kenneth Doyle: Is Confession required once a year? Is incense bad for your health?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: In one of your recent columns, you stated: “Strictly speaking, one is obliged to go to the sacrament of penance only for serious sins — although it is certainly a good idea to confess regularly even for lesser sins and imperfections.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church says, however (No. 1457), that […]

Photo: Philippine tradition in Texas

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Men carry a statue of Santo Nino de Cebu, who is depicted as the Infant Child Jesus, during a special Mass honoring the popular Filipino devotion to the Child Jesus at Mary Queen Catholic Church in Friendswood, Texas, Jan. 4, 2020. The devotion originates from Cebu City, Philippines, and was brought over by Filipino immigrants. […]

Trebek cites ‘power of prayer’ in accepting Fordham Founders’ Award

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By Catholic News Service LOS ANGELES — “Jeopardy” host Alex Trebek and his wife, Jean, received Fordham University’s Founders’ Award at a Jan. 7 reception in Los Angeles. According to Tom Stoelker writing in Fordham News, this was the first time the award — which he described as “weighty statuette” of Fordham founder Archbishop John […]

Iraqi cardinal: Innocents will ‘be the fuel’ for war

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By Dale Gavlak Catholic News Service Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako, responding to a U.S. drone attack in Baghdad that killed Iran’s top general, said “wisdom is required to avoid the ‘volcanic eruption’ we are about to face.” Speaking during the Epiphany Mass in Baghdad Jan. 6, he said the current crisis resulted from the […]

Ecological sins

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The idea of updating the Catholic catechism to include acts that harm nature sparks Twitter debate By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service   VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ announcement that the Catechism of the Catholic Church would be updated to include a definition of “ecological sin” sent Catholic Twitter into a frenzy. Reactions ranged […]

Photo: Mass honoring Black Christ

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A person dressed in a Mayan ceremonial costume is seen during a special Mass in honor of the Black Christ of Esquipulas, Guatemala, Jan. 5, 2020, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. Housed in the Basilica of Esquipulas, the 16th-century cedar sculpture of Jesus is a popular object of veneration by Central Americans. […]

Effie Caldarola: Make 2020 a year of forgiveness

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FOR THE JOURNEY As we trudge into 2020, a year that promises to be just as rancorous politically as the year we are ending, I find myself thinking about forgiveness. Not forgiveness as a meek act of acquiescing to evil, which is what our national climate might persuade us to believe. But forgiveness as a […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Why a crucifix instead of a cross? Can medication be used to help this condition?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: Most of my family is Protestant, but I became an adult convert four years ago and was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic faith. Members of my family often ask me questions about Catholic beliefs, and usually I can answer them, but recently my mother asked me one that I need your […]