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Mary Adamski: ‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness’

01/17/2024 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said that in 1962, he was speaking about having faith as you move ahead through your life. The wisdom of the revered American civil rights leader being honored this week feels […]

Mary Adamski: Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts

11/22/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW We finished the Thanksgiving shopping early this month, taking advantage of some minimally reduced prices at the supermarket and drugstore. Not much expectation these days of real bargain prices on a big bird or ham or premium veggies or pumpkin pie. “Good deal” seems to have become a fairy tale; […]

Mary Adamski: Oh, woeful holy land

10/25/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW Now is not the first time we Americans struggle to grasp what is happening on the other side of our planet. We’re watching the latest deadly chapter in a long-simmering religious, ethnic, territorial conflict fueled by the depth of human evil. Pride, envy, wrath, greed — traits which Catholic theology counts […]

Mary Adamski: As we forgive those who trespass against us

09/27/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW How long does it take us to recite the Lord’s Prayer together at Mass … less than a minute, for sure. So, maybe a couple seconds of reflection might occur when we say “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” On a recent Sunday, that familiar […]

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 […]

Mary Adamski: Special athletes, special flags

06/23/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW If the part of the brain that stores memories is like a shelf of scrapbooks and photo albums, this week’s would be the volume that is overflowing, so packed with images, thrills and happiness that it’s not possible to close the cover. The spectacle of elated, excited young athletes parading behind […]

Mary Adamski: Passing the Kalaupapa baton

05/10/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW Why is it that we humans have this need to measure events, people, what’s important in life, by using numbers? How many years of life, of service, birthdays, anniversaries, we count them. Money counting is important, how much spent, saved, paid, stolen; and there’s the relentless daily stories about spending by […]

Mary Adamski: Alleluia! It’s still Easter! Alleluia!

04/12/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW Happy Easter to all of you! What? You’re wondering if the writer has finally lost touch with reality? Or did the editor hold this column from a previous edition and it has aged out of use. Nope, this IS just in time; it IS still Easter and time to celebrate whether […]

Mary Adamski: Out-of-the-ordinary mentor

02/15/2023 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW How can you be awake in these fraught times without thinking about working for a living? At least that’s where your thoughts drift as you watch the daily unemployment news or join the family’s urgent conversation. I may be eased out of the job market but, like others, have times of […]

Mary Adamski: The season of elections

11/23/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW Hasn’t this been a headache of a month so far? We survived all the noise and absurd promises, nasty accusations and dire predictions. Whether you were tuned into the red spin or blue spin, it’s been like living in the midst of a rock-crushing operation. I admit that as a news […]