By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald He was the first Red Mass speaker to begin his talk by taking a selfie with the congregation. Typical “millennial.” Which was the point. Kainoa Fukumoto, 35, the founder and president of EPIC Ministry, a community of young Catholic adults in the Diocese of Honolulu, was the guest speaker […]
Against our human nature: Legalizing physician-assisted suicide would forever alter the doctor-patient relationship in Hawaii
Analysis By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald In a letter to Catholics last year, Bishop Larry Silva pointed out the striking irony of a law that would permit what has been genteelly called “death with dignity.” “Proponents speak of the autonomy of the individual to make his or her own choice about when to die,” […]