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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 […]

Mary Adamski: ‘No weapons allowed’

10/26/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW ‘Tis the season to be scary, falalalala … la la la la. My friends added a witch and a six-foot fuzzy spider to their flower bower of an entry way. Driving through upper crust Kahala, we passed a pop-up cemetery of gravestones in the landscaped lawn. In some neighborhoods it seems […]

Mary Adamski: Here’s to Catholic News Service

07/20/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW Every year the end of June sets off a rerun of grieving and grievance among a company of journalists and newspaper operational staffers who labored to keep island residents, and people interested in what happens here, fully informed about what’s happening in Hawaii. More than 500 of us were put out […]

Mary Adamski: Worth a thousand words

06/22/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW It was one of those Biblical texts that brought out the writer and editor in me. The evangelist John quoted Jesus, making his farewell to the Apostles, as saying “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot hear it now.” It was just the thing to distract; the worst […]

Mary Adamski: Sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit

05/25/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW School’s out, school’s out, teacher let the students out. It’s graduation time with all the flourishes and flowers, and for other scholars, a break from the discipline and demands, homework and goals and tests. It’s still a vivid happy memory for a lot of adults like me — the bell rang […]

Mary Adamski: ‘O my God, I am heartily sorry …’

03/16/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW A funny thing happened on the way to confession. I considered that lead for this column after a Lent event last week. Long story short, a friend and I went to the parish’s evening reconciliation service just in time to see the lights being turned off. It had actually started an […]

Mary Adamski: Happy birthday to you!

02/02/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW It put smiles on the faces of a lot of us uninvolved observers when a horn-honking horde in decorated cars did a drive-by birthday celebration at a neighborhood home. It raises the spirits, even for strangers, to witness happiness in a surprised honoree, exuberant spirits (as long as fireworks are not […]

Mary Adamski: Our unchanging, changing church

01/05/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW We’ve just accepted so many changes in the way we live since March 2020 that you wonder if we’ll ever get back to comfortable, convivial, to communal, not to mention safe and civil. Much as I don’t agree with the rebels who toss the masks and mash together in crowds, I […]

Mary Adamski: Magic bullets for healing

11/24/2021 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

VIEW FROM THE PEW I’ve given a lot of thought to healing lately. Of course, a lot of my pondering is stimulated by headlines about our world today, people working themselves into a frenzy of dissension, disrespect and belligerence and our planet damaged and threatened by pollution and rising temperatures, bad bugs and viruses destroying […]