EMBRACING FAMILY October is Respect Life Month. Some Catholics say, “I am pro-life!? We’ve even participated in the 40 Days for Life campaign. We pray the rosary as a family, too!” Protecting life from the moment of conception is a particularly important aspect of respecting life. However, we cannot stop there. What about life after […]
6 spiritual ways to celebrate All Hallows Eve
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS By Sherry Hayes-Peirce The secular world celebrates the last day of this month, Oct. 31, as Halloween, a holiday about dressing up, trick-or-treating, and scaring people. For our church, it is the start of 48 hours celebrating those who have been elevated to sainthood on All Saints Day (Nov. 1) and our […]
Christina Capecchi: Our balm for 2020
TWENTY SOMETHING Paula Kraus wasn’t afraid to utter the wish burning on her heart, the one that seizes so many preparing to lose a loved one. The Minnesota mom yearned for some kind of indication that, though she and her dying father would soon be separated, they would remain connected. And being a Catholic, Paula […]
Talk story: Brothers and sisters all
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “No one can face life in isolation … Let us dream, then, as a single human family, each of us with his or her own voice, brothers and sisters all.” (Pope Francis’ encyclical “Fratelli Tutti,” October 2020) Talking story online has become part of a social routine as we strive to […]
Talk story: Day for the world’s migrants and refugees
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “World Day for Migrants and Refugees 2020 is an opportunity to reflect on the global contributions of immigrants and refugees, and highlight the work of the church to welcome, protect and integrate them. We are reminded that regardless of our background, we are all built in the image of God and […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Generosity beyond our comprehension
WITNESS TO JESUS | 25TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME This is the prepared text for Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, delivered Sept. 19 and 20 at St. Ann Church, Kaneohe. Recently I was speaking to a young adult who is a man of great faith with a desire to […]
Sister Ardis Kramer, Maryknoll Sisters: Mississippi to Molokai
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald A sense of mission runs unconsciously deep through my family heritage. My father was Luxembourger, while my mother was French and Spanish. My mom’s mother was Spanish from the de Guzman line in Caleruega. We share the same blood as St. Dominic […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Worthy of God’s vineyard
27TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 5:1-7; Philippians 4:6-9; Matthew 21:33-43 The first section of the Book of Isaiah is the source of this weekend’s first reading. In it, the prophet speaks directly to the people. He speaks as God, in the first person. He employs an image with which his contemporaries would have been […]
Katie Prejean McGrady: Caught, not taught
WINDOW SEAT WISDOM “Mom, you too slow. I do it.” The almost 3-year-old began to say the Hail Mary, complete with a little head bow at the name Jesus and a profoundly loud “Amen!” at the end. I stood there in stunned silence, and as I pulled the sheets up around her and gave her […]
John Garvey: Sweeter than the honeycomb
INTELLECT AND VIRTUE I’m certainly not the first person to observe that the tone of our civic discourse has gotten increasingly angry. I have recently come to realize, though, that some people actually like it that way. This is not a sentiment confined to one end of the political or religious spectrum. Aristotle says in […]
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