Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Father Eugene Hemrick: The blessing of reality checks

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THE HUMAN SIDE “I have observed Satan falling like lightning from the sky” (Lk 10:18). Jesus instructed the Twelve: “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves” (Mt 10:16). Avoiding being like Satan, who was dispelled from heaven because of pride, and […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: What did Mary do during Jesus’ ministry?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: I am wondering what Mary did and where she lived during the three years of Jesus’ ministry. Did she travel with the “women who ministered to him”? (Wichita, Kansas) A: In the Gospels, once the public ministry of Jesus has begun, Mary is mentioned in only a few scenes. We can assume […]

Pope Benedict visits hill town outside Rome for walk, dinner

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By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Retired Pope Benedict XVI visited the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo in his first visit to the papal summer residence in four years. In a statement released July 26, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni confirmed the retired pope’s visit after a local newspaper, Castelli Notizie, reported […]

Chicago woman’s healing leads to canonization of Cardinal Newman

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By Joyce Duriga Catholic News Service CHICAGO — A few prayers to Blessed John Henry Newman became a “constant dialogue” and then a desperate response to an emergency for Melissa Villalobos of Chicago. Her healing, which saved her life and the life of her unborn child, was accepted as the miracle needed for the 19th-century […]

‘They want to kill you’

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The Iraqi monks had just finished hiding manuscripts when the Islamic State militants showed up By Doreen Abi Raad Catholic News Service BEIRUT — The first time a band of Islamic State militants “visited” the monks, they presented the monks with a kind of suggestion, in a nonthreatening manner: “Why don’t you become a Muslim?” […]

Help arrives for religious vocations derailed by student debt

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By Melissa Enaje Catholic News Service FRESH MEADOWS, N.Y. — “Yes, there is a vocation crisis, but we have to realize student loans are a substantial inhibitor to our vocations and the people wanting to give their lives,” said Norvilia Etienne, a recent New York City college graduate. In 2018, the parishioner from Holy Family […]

Mom says son’s cure after prayers to Archbishop Sheen a gift to whole church

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By Jennifer Willems Catholic News Service PEORIA, Ill. — As Bonnie Engstrom watched lifesaving measures being taken for her son, who had been born just moments before without a pulse or drawing breath, she asked for help from the person whose prayerful support she had sought throughout her pregnancy: Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. After 61 […]

Forensic experts to study ‘thousands of bones’ found in Vatican ossuaries

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — During a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, workers discovered an enormous number of bones inside two ossuaries in a building next to a Vatican cemetery. Further studies on the remains will be carried out starting July […]

Catholics hold civil disobedience rally for immigrant children

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By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — A few hundred Catholic activists, including dozens of women religious, gathered outside at the foot of the U.S. Capitol July 18 urging politicians to stop its “inhumane treatment” of immigrant children at the border and reminding people of faith to take a stronger stand against current U.S. […]

Effie Caldarola: A visit to Emmett Till’s coffin

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FOR THE JOURNEY Over 60 years ago, a young African American boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi after an encounter with a white woman in a country store on a dusty road on a hot, humid Southern day. Till, from Chicago, was visiting relatives and had stopped to buy bubble gum. Emmett […]