Father Kenneth Doyle

Father Kenneth Doyle: Where is heaven?

10/20/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q: I am 91 years old and I am wondering just where heaven is. I have heard priests say that it is here on earth, the same as hell and purgatory. But when I pray the Apostles’ Creed I say, “He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Calling on the name of Jesus

10/05/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q: When is it appropriate to call out verbally the word “Jesus”? If his name is not being used in a disrespectful way but to implore his help, certainly this would not be considered swearing, right? Some people seem to have a fear of uttering his name, lest they appear to be swearing. […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Does God ‘need’ the suffering of children?

09/21/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q: I have several very devout and pious friends who believe that God creates children with birth defects to become his “victim souls” because God needs suffering in order to make up for what was lacking in the suffering of Christ in the work of redemption. They quote to me the account […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Am I free to marry?

09/08/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q:I was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church. When I was younger, I served as an altar boy for several years. About 12 years ago, I got married in a Methodist church. I never had the marriage “convalidated” in the Catholic Church since my wife was against involving another member of the […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: I am too scared to go to confession

08/24/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q: I have always had a great fear of confession. Once I got in there, I would be so scared that I would just say the first thing I could think of, in order to get it over with. As a result, I have never really made a good confession in my entire […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Is it OK to skip the Confiteor?

08/12/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q: I have noticed that more often than not, the Confiteor (“I confess”) is skipped at Mass, and the priest or deacon goes right into the “Lord, have mercy” prayer (Kyrie). I have inquired as to why they do this but cannot get an answer. In the Tridentine Mass, the Confiteor was important […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Why didn’t the good thief go to purgatory?

07/28/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q: As I understand purgatory, it is a place where a cleansing is done, even if we have received the sacrament of anointing of the sick and/or made a good confession and had our sins absolved before death. My question is this: On the day Jesus was crucified, he told the good thief, […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Should those who distribute Communion say my name?

07/15/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q: How is it that some people who give out Communion say your name before they say “the body of Christ,” but not everyone gets called by name? I was an extraordinary minister of holy Communion some years back, and I stopped doing it because I couldn’t think of people’s names quickly enough. […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Why is my parish run as a dictatorship?

06/30/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q: Could you explain to me why Catholic parishes are run as dictatorships and are not democratic? Priests who act as dictators are driving young people to go to non-Catholic services or to quit altogether. Priests are 9-to-5 employees who do not earn their salary; if they were in the real world, many […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: May I toss those religious mailings?

06/16/2016 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

QUESTION CORNER Q: I receive, on a daily basis, mailings from multiple religious organizations requesting monetary help. Often they include address labels, holy pictures, prayers cards, etc. I feel guilty just trashing them, so I collect them and when the pile gets big, I mail it to one of the organizations, hoping that they will […]