FOR THE JOURNEY Ready for some good news? Who isn’t? Just a quick look at headlines during the past few days is sobering. With our first cup of coffee one morning, we learned about the murderous earthquake in Haiti. There’s the grim U.N. Climate Report. The Taliban has overtaken Kabul, Afghanistan, and the terror felt […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: Living ‘Laudato Si’’
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS Six years ago Pope Francis wrote the encyclical “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home” in which he called on the faithful to foster care and concern for our planet. Our Holy Father picked Sept. 1-Oct. 4 (The feast of St. Francis) as the “Season of Creation,” a month to be […]
Sister Nelia Pernecia, Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary: Special ties as siblings
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald In my family, there are several religious vocations. My brother became a priest. Two of my sisters became Reparatrix Sisters in Italy. And I became a Dominican religious sister. Growing up around the town plaza, we were close to school and the […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: We can see …
23RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 35:4-7a; James 2:1-5; Mark 7:31-37 The first reading for this weekend, from the Book of Isaiah, speaks of the blind, the deaf and the lame. Today’s culture is very different from that in which this section of Isaiah was written. Physical impairments now can be managed in most cases. […]
Bishop Larry Silva: Sacred vessels
WITNESS TO JESUS | ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Here is the prepared text of the homily by Bishop Larry Silva delivered Aug. 14 at St. John the Apostle and Evangelist Church, Mililani, for the 50th anniversary of the parish and the installation of the pastor; and on Aug. 15 at St. Anthony Church, […]
Effie Caldarola: The face in the mirror
FOR THE JOURNEY When my granddaughter Alice was just months old, she would lie on a blanket, surrounded by a plastic toy structure that had colorful objects hanging from it. When the structure was jiggled, things would twirl and rattle. But the best part, a plastic mirror, hung from the center so Alice could see […]
Richard Doerflinger: Attacking life and choice
A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY Congress is heading for a collision on the Hyde amendment, and the stakes could not be higher. This amendment to bills appropriating funds for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, named after prime sponsor Rep. Henry Hyde, has prevented federal funding of almost all abortions since 1977. President Joe […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Baptism for a child of non-Catholics? What if I forgot to fast before Mass?
Question corner Q: A friend of mine asked me recently to find out if the parish I was raised in would baptize her new baby. My friend is not a Catholic, so I was surprised that she asked me this. The priest at my parish said that he could not baptize the baby because the […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: The words of eternal life
21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Joshua 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b; Ephesians 5:21-32; John 6:60-69 The Book of Joshua, the source for this weekend’s first reading, looks at the period in the history of God’s people when Joshua led them. It was after the death of Moses. Even though these connections may seem to be clear, biblical […]
Father Raymund Ellorin, diocesan priest: My extended family is here
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald My favorite Scripture passage is the call of Jeremiah found in Jeremiah 1:4-5. The passage states: “The word of the Lord came to me: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a […]
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