Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Father Kenneth Doyle: Is the death penalty out completely?

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  QUESTION CORNER Q: I have always been against the death penalty — since the prisoner is behind bars and removed from doing further harm to the public. But a recent piece in The Wall Street Journal included statements by criminals who said that they were not as aggressive with victims when they knew there […]

Survivors say they felt hurt by fellow Catholics’ lack of compassion

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By Zita Ballinger Fletcher Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Sexual assault victims say they were hurt not only by individual priests, but by church officials and ordinary Catholics who treated them with intolerance and indifference. Four survivors of sexual assaults by priests shared their stories with Catholic News Service. They are: Jim VanSickle and Mike […]

Greg Erlandson: Crisis: Church authorities and clergy sex abuse

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COMMENTARY When Catholic News Service posted a short video of the Pennsylvania attorney general’s Aug. 14 news conference announcing a grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse in six dioceses, its editors had to add a warning about the graphic language viewers would hear. The actual 900-page report chronicling 70 years of child sexual abuse […]

Effie Caldarola: What’s a Catholic to do?

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FOR THE JOURNEY The charges leveled against a former cardinal, Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, are sickening and almost unbearable to read. It’s horrible enough that former seminarians allege he invited them to a beach house with the certainty that he was always inviting one extra who would have to share his bed. But then comes […]

Church urged to address its leaders’ ‘moral failures of judgment’

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By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick “will rightly face” a Vatican canonical process regarding sexual abuse allegations against him, but the U.S. Catholic Church must take steps to respond to church leaders’ “moral failures of judgment,” said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The accusations against Archbishop […]

Kansan returns to Australia saint’s tomb in thanks for Parkinson’s cure

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  By Catherine Sheehan Catholic News Service SYDNEY — Exactly 10 years to the day — July 18, 2018 — Ricky Peterson of Kansas City, Kansas, knelt once more at the tomb of St. Mary MacKillop in suburban North Sydney, Australia, this time with a prayer of thanksgiving for the seemingly miraculous event that had […]