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Laura Kelly Fanucci: My life is changed, not ended

08/16/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

FAITH AT HOME I found the lump at the end of Lent. My husband was out of town, and I was swamped with work and caring for our five kids. Never one to do a regular self-check (more likely to resolve to “do it next month”), I can’t remember exactly how or when I […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Jesus appeals to all, invites all

08/16/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

20TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 56:1,6-7; Romans 11:13-15, 29-32; Matthew 15:21-28 The third section of the Book of Isaiah provides this weekend’s liturgy with its first reading. Understanding this part of Isaiah requires some knowledge of the cultural context of the time. It was not good. Life for the Jews had changed very […]

Mary Adamski: Feeding the hungry in the face of opposition

08/02/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW I got a bit irate last week in a letter to the editor of the daily newspaper. I waxed indignant about the heavy-handed way top city officials pressured a Catholic church to knock off doing what Jesus taught us to do, giving food, drink and solace to the poor. So you […]

Bishop Larry Silva: Weeds among wheat

08/02/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

WITNESS TO JESUS | SIXTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Here is the prepared text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered July 23, at Sacred Hearts Church, Lanai City, on the occasion of his parish visitation and his administering Confirmation and First Communion. I think of Saul of Tarsus, […]

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Models of the Lord’s glory

08/02/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14; 2 Peter 1:16-19; Matthew 17:1-9 This weekend the church invites us to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. The first reading is from the Book of Daniel. When this book was written, composed by an author whose identity has been lost, times were terrible for […]

Jenna Marie Cooper: May we believe in ghosts?

08/02/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q: When I was an Evangelical I was told there was no such thing as ghosts and that paranormal phenomena were likely demons. What does the church say about this? Doesn’t the church teach that there are such things as “apparitions?” (Brandenburg, Kentucky) A: The word “ghost” can refer to several different concepts. […]

Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board: Rent-a-womb, buy a person: See the moral problem, yet?

08/02/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

COMMENTARY In a heart-wrenching story out of California, a mother has gone public with her tragic experience as a surrogate, claiming that she was urged to terminate her pregnancy at 24 weeks after being diagnosed with breast cancer. At 22 weeks into a surrogate pregnancy, Brittney Pearson, 37, of Sacramento, received the devastating news of […]

Russell Shaw: Our changing church and what you can do

08/02/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

COMMENTARY Noticing that some of his listeners were having trouble understanding his accented English, the African priest paused his homily, grinned at the nearly all-white congregation, and said, “If you don’t produce more vocations, this is what you get.” People laughed and the homilist continued as before. Welcome to our changing Church. This incident during […]

Nena Bargamento, parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Papaikou: Uplifted faith

08/02/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIRIDITAS2: SOUL GREENING These are excerpts from a conversation recorded by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP, with Nena Bargamento at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Papaikou I was born and raised on a Pepeekeo plantation (just north of Hilo on the Big Island). We had our own Catholic church, then called St. Joseph by the […]