EMBRACING FAMILY Dear readers, We’re trying out a new question-and-answer column format. Parents ask us questions all year-round, and we share faith-based parenting advice, based on Love and Logic and the preventive system of St. John Bosco (reason, religion, loving kindness). Since these questions apply to many others, we’d like to anonymously share some of […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Healed by faith
13TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Wisdom 1:13-15, 2:23-24; 2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15; Mark 5:21-43 The Book of Wisdom is the source of the first reading. When this book originally was written, the plight of God’s people was not good. They had experienced very much in their history. Among these experiences was the loss of […]
Christina Capecchi: Finding God in the wilderness
TWENTY SOMETHING The sense of place and pull to the wild that inspired Nick Ripatrozone’s new book are tucked in his very name. The rip-roaring surname is the name of a mountain town in central Italy, which the 40-year-old writer has visited. Like his ancestors, Nick is drawn to the mountains, living with his wife […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Like a mustard seed
11TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Ezekiel 17:22-24; 2 Corinthians 5:6-10; Mark 4:26-34 The first reading for this weekend’s liturgy is from the Book of Ezekiel, who is regarded as one of the great Hebrew prophets. Not interested in themselves, but only in relaying the revelation of God, the prophets rarely left any biographical details […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: How can God abandon God?
QUESTION CORNER Q: What was the meaning of Christ’s words from the cross when he said, “Father, why have you forsaken me?” (Leicester, United Kingdom) A: Both Matthew and Mark indicate in their Gospel accounts that among the last words of Jesus on the cross were the following: “My God, my God, why have you […]
Talk story: The potential of migrants and refugees
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY We need to find a path forward that is rooted in solidarity and fraternity and that respects the rights and dignity of every migrant as a child of God made in his image.” (Archbishop Jose Gomez, president of the the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), June 2, 2021) On June […]
Father Sebastian Chacko, diocesan priest: Having a global outlook helps
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald God has blessed me. My health is pretty good. I have been to three countries in Africa, various parts of India, Western Samoa and American Samoa, and Hawaii. After my retirement at the age of 68, I went to New Zealand and […]
Sherry Hayes-Peirce: The seed of a vocation sprouts
CHURCH SOCIAL TIPS The months of May and June are typically designated for ordinations in dioceses and archdioceses across the country. The Diocese of Honolulu celebrated the ordination of Father “Ace” Tui on May 21. We are called to pray for an increase in vocations daily. Earlier generations used to pray deeply for one of […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: How did the pope and grand ayatollah communicate? As Catholics obligated to keep people on life support and tube feeding?
QUESTION CORNER Q: When the Holy Father and Ayatollah al-Sistani met recently, at the end they stood facing each other and seemed to be talking without an interpreter. What language did they use in order to communicate? (Powhatan, Virginia) A: According to the website of the Jesuit magazine America there was, in fact, an interpreter […]
Talk story: Ensuring no one is left behind
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “The truth however is that we are all in the same boat and called to work together so that there will be no more walls that separate us, no longer others, but only a single ‘we’, encompassing all of humanity.” (Pope Francis, Message for 2021 World Day of Migrants and Refugees) […]
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