Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Names of past Harrisburg bishops will be removed from buildings

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  By Catholic News Service HARRISBURG, Pa. — Harrisburg Bishop Ronald W. Gainer Aug. 1 released information from the diocese’s own internal investigation on child sex abuse, including a list of the names of 71 clergy, both dead and alive, accused of abuse. He also ordered removal from buildings, halls and rooms the names of […]

Keeping Catholic school tuition affordable requires creativity

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By Chaz Muth and Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Making Catholic education accessible to everyone has been a mission of the church in the U.S. for centuries, but keeping it affordable in modern times has required innovative methods. Religious orders and parish schools labored in the 19th century to bring education to everyone, […]

Catholic capital punishment opponents praise pope’s revision

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  By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Aug. 2 announcement that Pope Francis had ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church calling the death penalty “inadmissible” was praised by Catholic death penalty opponents in the U.S. “I am overjoyed and deeply grateful to learn that Pope Francis closed the last […]

Analysis: All eyes now fixed on Kavanaugh and Roe

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By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Brett Kavanaugh, the federal judge who is the newly announced Supreme Court nominee, has stepped into a firestorm. Some have praised his nomination, others have slammed it, hinging primarily on how they think he will vote on abortion cases. This contention was on full display July 9 […]

Catholic agency must consider same-sex couples for foster care

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  By Matthew Gambino Catholic News Service PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge has swept away claims of religious discrimination by plaintiffs including Catholic Social Services of the Philadelphia Archdiocese and ruled the church agency must provide home assessments for same-sex couples wishing to provide foster care for at-risk children in Philadelphia. The Catholic agency’s leadership […]

To support abbey, English monks brew ‘seriously nice’ ale

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By Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service COALVILLE, England — Cistercian monks have opened the first Trappist brewery in England and are selling thousands of bottles of beer every day. The monks at Mount St. Bernard Abbey in the English Midlands decided to brew beer to bring in revenue when they realized they could no longer […]

Guidelines needed for use of deconsecrated churches, cardinal says

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is helping organize an international conference meant to help dioceses work with their local communities in finding appropriate uses for decommissioned churches. The Pontifical Council for Culture, together with Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University and the Italian bishops’ conference, will sponsor the gathering, titled “Doesn’t […]

Congolese cardinal does not fear death but watches what he eats

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The persecuted church By Deborah Gyapong Catholic News Service OTTAWA, Ontario — There is no room for fear in the life of Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Congo. “A cardinal does not have fear,” said the outspoken leader of one of most violent and volatile countries in Africa. “It is a mission to defend […]

Book review: Forceful smack down of atheism’s claims

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By Brian Welter Catholic News Service “Inside the Atheist Mind: Unmasking the Religion of Those Who Say There Is No God” by Anthony DeStefano. Nelson Books (Nashville, Tennessee, 2018). 222 pp., $24.99. Readers of “Inside the Atheist Mind” expecting a tame rebuttal to atheists such as Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins are in […]