Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Father Eugene Hemrick: Something missing in the Mass

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THE HUMAN SIDE While watching Mass on television at St. Mathew’s Cathedral in Washington, I thanked God for technology, and especially its gift to shut-ins. Yet seeing empty pews made me feel something was missing. Lacking was an aging parishioner ascending church steps with difficulty. He could easily be excused, but Mass means everything to […]

Carolyn Woo: ‘Thank you’ is not enough

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THE GLOBAL FAMILY One of my routines in the early pandemic lockdown was to shop at a big-box retailer at 6 a.m. Along with food, a key purchase was fabric and supplies that allowed me to make face masks with my very rudimentary sewing skills. Over the weeks, I struck up a rapport with the […]

Honokaa church joins 21st century in time for coronavirus pandemic

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LETTER FROM THE BIG ISLAND By Dale J. Hahlbeck Special to the Herald Our Lady of Lourdes is the name of our parish in the rural town of Honokaa on the Big Island of Hawaii. Nestled along the Hamakua Coast, this quiet little town was once a bustling sugarcane plantation community. The majority of our […]

Effie Caldarola: Don’t bottle up emotions

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FOR THE JOURNEY Have you had a good cry lately? I have. I saw a Twitter post about a cheerful old fellow in an English care facility who slept with his late wife’s photo every night. So, a thoughtful staff member had a photo company create a pillow for him, one side of which displayed […]

Churches in Europe reopening with restrictions to avoid contagion

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service ROME — With a number of countries in Europe slowly easing restrictions as part of a long-term strategy for containing the spread of the coronavirus, churches, too, are seeing changes in what is or will be allowed. Where possible, for example, in Italy, protocols were the result of government […]

COVID-19 takes toll on New York Maryknoll motherhouse

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The religious community in Ossining is the residence of retired Hawaii missioners By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service CLEVELAND — The Maryknoll religious community in Ossining, New York, has been hit hard by COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. At least one priest and three women religious have died of the illness during the […]

Mary Leong Saunders: Catholic Charities answers needs of families, kupuna during crisis

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CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII | COVID-19 Catholic Charities Hawaii continues to serve vulnerable individuals and families during the COVID-19 health crisis. We know that the community is counting on us to be there for them in their time of need. While our nation takes measures to avoid further spread of the disease, we are carrying out […]

Grants allow HOPE Services to give rent, utility help for those hit by COVID-19

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Two grants will allow the Catholic diocese-affiliate HOPE Services Hawaii and two other Big Island non-profit organizations to give one-time emergency financial assistance to Hawaii Island residents who have been laid off or whose income has been reduced because of the coronavirus pandemic. Hawaii Community Foundation has provided $100,000 and Hawaii Island United Way’s Rent […]

HOPE Services arranges hotel for homeless during pandemic

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Sheltering-in-place doesn’t mean much when you don’t have a place to shelter. That’s why HOPE Services Hawaii is coordinating a place for homeless elderly and medically at-risk homeless to stay during the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting on April 9, the non-profit affiliate of the Diocese of Honolulu’s Office for Social Ministry began moving homeless kupuna into […]

Aloha kekahi i kekahi

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Kupuna Needs Project created to deliver food, necessities to elderly and other vulnerable people By Dallas Carter Special to the Herald The Hawaiian proverb “aloha kekahi i kekahi” (“love one another”) reminds us to be good to one another and to care for the most vulnerable among us. Our Lord exhorts us in holy Scripture […]