By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME — Divided Christians will draw closer to one another only by loving God and loving their neighbors, serving one another and not pointing fingers in blame for past faults, Pope Francis said. Closing the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with an evening prayer service Jan. 25 at […]
New ecumenical/interfaith officer comes with a ‘natural’ interest in the ministry
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva has named Father William Kunisch II, pastor of Resurrection of the Lord Church, Waipio, as the new diocesan ecumenical/interfaith officer. He started April 21. Father Kunisch succeeds the late Father Jack Ryan who died Dec. 7, 2020. It is a post he held once before, from […]
Pope says it is a ‘grave sin’ to deny God has blessed other Christians
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME — Just as divisions in society grow when wealth is not shared, divisions within Christianity grow when the richness of gifts God has given to one Christian church or community are not recognized and shared, Pope Francis said. “It is easy to forget the fundamental equality existing […]
Newman to host annual prayer for Christian unity
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Bishop Larry Silva has invited the leaders of Catholic, Eastern rite, Protestant, Orthodox and other Christian churches to an hour of hymns, Scripture and prayer at the ecumenical Taize service in observance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, 7 p.m., Jan. 18, at the Newman Center at […]
Learn from the past to bring peace to Middle East, pope says
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — As war continues to threaten the land of Jesus’ birth and to undermine the existence of Christian communities there, the international community must learn from the errors of the past and do more to bring lasting peace to the Middle East, Pope Francis said. “Do […]
Catholics, Anglicans complete work on church authority, communion
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission published its first document in 13 years on how both institutions can learn from each other in the exercise of ecclesial authority locally, regionally and globally. The document, “Walking Together on the Way: Learning to Be the Church — Local, […]
Photo: United by the cross
Bishop Larry Silva and leaders of local Christian churches look on as participants venerate a wooden iconographic cross at the Jan. 25 ecumenical Taize prayer service at the Newman Center. The Taize evening ceremony was held at the University of Hawaii at Manoa parish and Catholic campus ministry hub as part of the annual Week […]
Theologians ask if Luther split had to be a ‘church-dividing’ event
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Did the split between Martin Luther and the Catholic Church in 1521 have to be what theologians call a “church-dividing” event? That is the question some theologians and historians are asking in 2017, the 500th anniversary of Luther’s posting of his 95 theses on a church door […]
Pope, Russian Orthodox patriarch to meet in Cuba
VATICAN CITY — After almost three decades of tense Catholic-Russian Orthodox relations, Pope Francis will meet Patriarch Kirill of Moscow Feb. 12 in Cuba on the pope’s way to Mexico.
Christians of many denominations find unity in prayer
Leaders of local Christian churches sing during the Taize service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Jan. 22 at the Newman Center. In the front row are Rev. Charles Buck of the United Church of Christ Hawaii Conference and Bishop Stephen Randolph Sykes of the Inclusive Orthodox Church. Behind Rev. Buck is Father […]
