Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Men in Black: Belief in aliens not so far out for some Catholics

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — More than 2 million people RSVP’d to a recent social media invitation to “storm” Area 51 in Nevada, in the hope of discovering whether alien life or spacecraft may be secretly stored at this U.S. Air Force base. Though the proposed raid was a spoof, it […]

Pontiff says he is honored by attacks on his ministry

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO MOZAMBIQUE — Pope Francis told a reporter that it is “an honor when Americans attack me.” The pope made his comments to Nicolas Seneze, a reporter from La Croix, the French Catholic daily newspaper, during the flight Sept. 4 from Rome to Maputo, Mozambique. […]

Syriac Catholic Church reestablishes diocese for Kurdistan region

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THE PERSECUTED CHURCH By Doreen Abi Raad Catholic News Service BERUIT — To support the faithful and encourage them to stay in their homeland, the Syriac Catholic Church has reestablished a diocese for the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan celebrated the new diocese at a Mass at Queen of […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Does new Catholic need an annulment? Why can’t communion wine be offered in separate cups?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: A neighbor of ours, age 66, just completed the RCIA program to become a Catholic. She has been told that she cannot receive Communion or be confirmed until she secures an annulment. She was not married in a Catholic church and has been divorced for over a decade. She states that she […]

Teen who died saving classmates in school shooting made a Knight

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By Catholic News Service MINNEAPOLIS — As residents of El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, mourned the loss of 31 people in mass shootings Aug. 3 and Aug. 4, the Knights of Columbus honored a teen who died in May trying to save the lives of his classmates during a shooting at his suburban Denver […]

Anti-nuke activists tell court Catholic faith motivated their protests

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By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Seven defendants charged with a series of offenses for illegally entering a naval submarine base in Georgia to call for nuclear disarmament told a federal judge that their actions were motivated by their Catholic faith and not by their political beliefs. The testimony Aug. 7 from the […]

Hosffman Ospino: With gratitude to all farmworkers

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JOURNEYING TOGETHER By Hosffman Ospino, Catholic News Service We all like our fresh salads, vegetables and fruits. If we eat meat, we want the best quality. However, these do not grow or raise themselves. They come to us thanks to the hard and dedicated work of farm laborers. In the United States of America there […]

Pew survey shows most Catholics don’t believe in ‘Real Presence’

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By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — A new study about the level of Catholic belief in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist showed that a majority of Catholics do not believe that the bread and wine used at Mass become the body and blood of Christ. The report drew a strong […]