WITNESS TO JESUS | 24TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME This is the prepared text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Honolulu, Sept. 13, on the occasion of children receiving Confirmation and First Communion. I doubt if there is a […]
Ask Father Doyle: How do I dispose of religious objects? What do I do if I want to go to Mass during the pandemic but my spouse doesn’t?
QUESTION CORNER Q; What is the proper way to dispose of the medals, rosaries, small crucifixes, etc., that many Catholic organizations mail out unsolicited? (I have enough of everything!) (Atlanta) A: Perhaps surprisingly, church law on disposing of blessed articles of devotion is not very specific. Canon 1171 of the church’s Code of Canon Law […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Four ways to navigate distance learning
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS School is back, but for many it’s online. Even though students and parents were not unprepared for this experience, it was still difficult to accept that once again there would be distance learning for now. In addition to distance learning, many parents are grappling with the challenges of living under the new […]
Christina Capecchi: Theology of home
TWENTY SOMETHING The color-coded books first caught my eye. It’s become one of my favorite flourishes in interior design, one that always stops me in my Instagram scrolling. And here it was, on the cover of a book titled “Theology of Home: Finding the Eternal in the Everyday.” Four built-in shelves held coordinating books: reds, […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: The greatest of wages
25TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 55:6-9; Philippians 1:20c-24, 27a; Matthew 20:1-16a The last section of the Book of Isaiah provides this weekend with its first reading. Virtually none of the prophets of ancient Israel wrote when times were good, or at least when the prophets perceived the times to be good. Certainly, the author […]
Sarah and David Herrmanns: I have the right vs. is it right?
EMBRACING FAMILY Our lives have been filled with nonstop news stories about many people touting their freedom, the fact that they have the right to do what they want, when they want. One question that people worldwide are facing is the choice about when and where to use face masks due to the coronavirus. Rather […]
Talk Story: Finding solidarity in diversity
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Solidarity today is the road to take toward a post-pandemic world, toward the healing of our interpersonal and social sicknesses. There is no other way.” (Pope France, gerneral papal audience, Sept. 2) In his first in-person public papal audience since COVID-19 restrictions began in March, Pope Francis expressed his joy in […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Using the power of the keys
WITNESS TO JESUS | 21ST SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME This is the prepared text of the homily of Bishop Larry Silva for the 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, delivered Aug. 23 at St. Pius X Church, Manoa. Lockdown. We all understand what that word means now. We stay home and forego the normal things we […]
Mary Adamski: Let us pray
View from the pew There was a whole lot of praying going on in the virtual public square last month. But unless you were glued to the screen for every second of the political party conventions, you may have missed it. Both the Democrats and Republicans scheduled invocations, blessings and benedictions by speakers from various […]
Edgar Allen Pobre, diocesan seminarian: Finding joy in every moment
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I was born in Honolulu on June 21, 1996. I am primarily Filipino, with a few other Asian, Spanish and European ethnicities mixed in. I grew up in Waipahu my entire life with my father, mother and older sister. I attended Waipahu […]
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