By Deborah Manog Special to the Herald The nineteen Hawaii Catholic Schools that participated in the 2016 Catholic Relief Services Lenten Rice Bowl raised a whopping $25,000 for local and international aid programs created for the elimination of hunger and poverty. The donations from the 19 schools, about half the number of schools in the […]
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CRS’s Lenten program helps develop a spirituality of gratitude
“We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family. There are no frontiers or barriers, political or social, behind which we can hide, still less is there room for the globalization of indifference.”
Hawaii’s 2023 JUBILARIANS
“God, our Father, guide of humanity and ruler of creation, look upon these your servants, who wish to confirm their offering of themselves to you. As the years pass by, help them to enter more deeply into the mystery of the church and to dedicate themselves more generously to the good of humanity.” –Prayer of […]
Carolyn Woo: Peace is the first greeting
OUR GLOBAL FAMILY On Jan. 18, 1968, St. Paul VI inaugurated the World Day of Peace and designated the first day of every year for this focus. This day is also devoted to the veneration of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the Holy Name of Jesus. Connecting the events, Pope Paul VI commented, “Those […]
Love, marriage & family
The diocese is gathering a plethora of programs to help strengthen home life in Hawaii Here’s a snapshot of the groups that fall under the Marriage and Family Ministries program that Bishop Larry Silva called together about 10 years ago. Compiled by Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Marriage and Family Ministries Program Introduced to […]
Carolyn Woo: A woman of uncompromising faith
OUR GLOBAL FAMILY Preparation for the 75th anniversary of Catholic Relief Services calls to mind a truly remarkable woman whose work has informed the Catholic social tradition, particularly in the United States during the last century. In my own case, I owe her a special debt. Though she is not well-known beyond the peace movement […]
Talk story: Work gives life meaning, dignity, a future
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “When one has turned money, property, and work into one’s calling of service with others, then the joy of sharing and the feeling that we are all one family does not pass away” (Blessed Oscar Romero, martyred Archbishop of El Salvador, Rice Bowl 2017) During Lent, Rice Bowl provides daily reminders […]
Talk story: A year of ‘mercy ministries’
OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY A Thanksgiving roundup of Island Catholic efforts to reach out to the most vulnerable around us “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you […]
Poor or rich, we need each other
An interview with Thomas Awiapo of Ghana, the CRS Global Solidarity Coordinator By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Thomas Awiapo’s conversation kept coming back to that “little snack,” as he fiddled with a little cardboard box, the well-known Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl. The CRS Global Solidarity Coordinator, who works in his home country of […]
Catholic missionaries stay in South Sudan after attack on foreigners
By Bronwen Dachs Catholic News Service CAPE TOWN, South Africa — While most expatriate aid workers left South Sudan after a brutal attack on foreigners in the capital, a group of Catholic missionaries chose to stay. “We stayed because we are committed to the ordinary people who are suffering so much,” La Sallian Christian Brother […]