Talk story: Together, we will get through this storm
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “Here we cry, and we suffer. All of us. We can only get out of this situation together, as a whole humanity and we need to look at each other with a sense of solidarity.”...
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Pope leads Way of the Cross in empty, torch-lit St. Peter’s Square
Pope Francis leads the Via Crucis procession in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican April 10, 2020. The Good Friday service was held with no public participation because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS...
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Pope calls for a ‘contagion’ of Easter hope, peace, care for poor
Pope Francis delivers his Easter message “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world) after celebrating Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 12, 2020. The Mass was celebrated without...
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Catholic schools continue the academic year with distance learning
Holy Family Catholic Academy early learning center student Christian Lee worked on learning the number 22 and letter W by counting out M&M’s with the help of his brother Greysen. (Photo courtesy...
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Pastoring in the time of the coronavirus
Who are those masked men? Priests filled in for the regular volunteers who serve meals for the needy at St. Augustine Parish in Waikiki on April 6. From left, Sacred Hearts Father Lane Akiona, pastor...
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Hawaii parishes schools will continue distance learning the rest of the...
St. John Vianney Early Learning Center teacher Mary D’Avirro chats with one of her students online during school closures in April. (Courtesy photo) Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald All Hawaii parish...
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Bishop Larry Silva: Jesus is with us, disguised
(CNS photo/Irakli Gedenidze, Reuters) WITNESS TO JESUS | THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER This is the prepared text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the Third Sunday of Easter, delivered April 26 during a...
View ArticleGrants allow HOPE Services to give rent, utility help for those hit by COVID-19
Two grants will allow the Catholic diocese-affiliate HOPE Services Hawaii and two other Big Island non-profit organizations to give one-time emergency financial assistance to Hawaii Island residents...
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Creation is sacred gift deserving respect, Francis says on Earth Day
Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience April 22 in the papal library in the Apostolic Palace. Marking the celebration of Earth Day, the pope dedicated his talk to urging people to protect the...
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Mary Leong Saunders: Catholic Charities answers needs of families, kupuna...
Catholic Charities Hawaii’s transportation services for seniors makes a Beretania Safeway stop. (Photo couresy of Catholic Charities Hawaii) CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII | COVID-19 Catholic Charities...
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COVID-19 takes toll on New York Maryknoll motherhouse
The Maryknoll Society Center in Ossining, N.Y., is seen in this 2014 file photo. The Maryknoll religious community has been hit hard by COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, with at least...
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Fellowship in times of isolation
Father Damien of Molokai and Mother Marianne of Molokai, were natives of Belgium and Germany respectively, but are best known for their care of lepers (sufferers of Hansen’s disease) of the Kalaupapa...
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Hospital chaplains talk about their ministry in the midst of pandemic
Chaplain Bill Simpson of Shawnee, Okla., prays with a patient undergoing testing for coronavirus at SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital April 23, 2020. As of May 1, more than 63,000 people have died in the...
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Bishop Larry Silva: Do not let your hearts be troubled
Audrey Toguchi sits next to Bishop Larry Silva of Honolulu at an Oct. 8, 2009, press conference in Rome in advance of the canonization of Blessed Damien de Veuster. Toguchi is the woman whose cancer...
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Priests designated essential workers in ministry to the dying
Father Sengole Thomas Gnanaraj, administrator of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Richmond, Ind., is pictured April 22, 2020, outside Reid Health Hospital. He is among a select group of priests in the...
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Memorandum: Directives and guidance in preparation for the reopening of churches
Robert Mondoy leads the music during the privately held Chrism Mass on April 2, 2020. Memorandum TO: Clergy, Parishes and the Faithful FROM: Deacon Modesto Cordero, Director, Office of Worship DATE:...
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Graduation adaptation: plans that have been adjusted due to COVID-19
Saint Francis School’s Class of 2019, the last graduating class for the Catholic school in Manoa, which closed at the end of the 2018-2019 school year. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver) Here’s a sampling of...
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Missing friends more than graduation ceremonies
Class of 2020 Hawaii Catholic high school graduates will be receiving their diplomas following social distancing guidelines. Top row, Kenneth “KJ” Soong; middle row, Jocelyn Corpuz; bottom row, Chanah...
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‘Thanks be to God!’ Honolulu mayor gives go-ahead to public services
The Newman Center chapel’s seats are spaced six feet apart in preparation for Masses resuming on Oahu and Kauai the weekend of May 30 and 31. (Photo courtesy Father Alfred Guerrero) By Patrick Downes...
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Sister Mary Elizabeth of the Trinity Sedo, Carmelites: Got to believe in magic
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald Magic and fairy tales? Who says they are only for children? In his singing of the ballad “Young at Heart,”...
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