Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Christina Capecchi: It’s OK to start 2019 with you

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TWENTY SOMETHING I’ve always appreciated the notion of self-care in an Oprah Winfrey, hot-baths-and-expensive-chocolates kind of way. We work so hard, the thinking goes, that we deserve a break here and there. So splurge on that full-price gift-to-yourself. Book the massage. Binge on the new season. This philosophy is easy to get behind. But it […]

Mary Adamski: Hope and joy, bring it on!

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VIEW FROM THE PEW There’s an aged poinsettia plant near my front door. At the tip of one bedraggled branch, there’s the tiny beginning of a red blossom. I’m writing a week before Christmas so maybe there’ll be a blooming miracle of color soon enough for this poor t’ing to perform as it has for […]

John Garvey: Holy mother church

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INTELLECT AND VIRTUE I’ve been having some trouble lately with the Nicene Creed. The First Council of Constantinople in 381 added the sentence, “I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic church.” It’s the holy part, as you might expect, that’s bothering me. The Pennsylvania grand jury report released in August disclosed years of unholy […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: What if the priest is a worse sinner? And how to mark your baptism day

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QUESTION CORNER Q: I know of several Catholics today who refuse to go to confession because they feel that the priest might be a worse sinner than they are. But yet if they get sick, they want their parish priest to come immediately to give them a blessing. How can I explain to them their […]

Laura Kelly Fanucci: Good news for crowded churches

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FAITH AT HOME Quick reminder for those of us who attend Mass regularly. Many people who don’t normally come to church joined us on Dec. 24 and 25. They took our parking spots and our usual pews. What fantastic news! More people crowding in the doors? Not enough chairs to drag up from the basement? […]

Father Eugene Hemrick: A peaceful 2019 to you

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THE HUMAN SIDE No matter where we look, peace is a rare commodity. How then can the new year be more peaceful? Start the year with avoiding certain behaviors and doubling up on civility. St. Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians often deals with adversity in his communities. Stop your strife and avoid jealousy, he counseled. […]

Brett Robinson: Matters of life and death

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THE THEOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY Of the many technologies that have changed the course of culture, contraception may be the most pernicious. In his landmark encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” St. Paul VI foresaw that the rise of artificial birth control methods would also lead to more marital infidelity, the lowering of moral standards and the objectification of […]

Effie Caldarola: Remembering Dorothy Day

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    FOR THE JOURNEY November is a month of thanksgiving, family and celebration. But it also ushers in our national period of overconsumption and excess in December. This year, the holidays come as the gap between the very rich and the poor widens, as attacks on Jewish-Americans and other minorities grow, and health care […]