Reservations and donations are being accepted for the 20th annual Honpa Hongwanji Hawaii Betsuin golf tournament, which will raise funds for the temple’s youth and educational programs, and other activities.
The deadline for golfers to sign up for the Aug. 11 tournament (limited to the first 192 golfers) is July 31.
The tournament, a three-person modified scramble, will start at noon at the Ala Wai Golf Course. The $150 fee per person includes drinks, lunch banquet at Fat Boys at the golf course, and various player contests.
Other ways to contribute are through sponsorships of golf holes and tables, donations of prizes and merchandise or through volunteering. For more information, call Mel Kawahara at 352-5550 or 537-2779, or email office@hawaiibetsuin.org.
Benedict analyzes his pontificate in book
VATICAN CITY >> Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI is offering a first-ever papal assessment of his own pontificate in a book that recounts his decision to resign, his surprise at his successor and his attempts to dismantle what he calls the Vatican’s “gay lobby.”
“Benedict XVI: The Final Conversations” is due out in September, the latest book-length interview that Benedict has conducted with German journalist Peter Seewald.
Italian daily Corriere della Sera, which has the book’s newspaper rights, provided a brief overview Friday.
Corriere said Benedict recounts in the book that he decided to announce his resignation in Latin because he feared making a mistake in Italian. He recalls his “surprise” that Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope and his “joy” at seeing Pope Francis mingle with crowds.
Group accuses pope of spreading confusion
VATICAN CITY >> A breakaway traditionalist Catholic group accused Pope Francis on Wednesday of spreading confusion and errors about the faith, joining a chorus of conservative criticism over his perceived lax doctrine and emphasis on mercy at the expense of morals.
A statement from the schismatic Society of St. Pius X suggested that a new attempt at reconciliation with Rome had stalled or that the society itself was divided over its next steps and decided at least to take a hard line against Francis.
The statement, issued after a meeting of the society’s superiors, said its members weren’t primarily looking for a legal resolution to their schismatic status, but eager to return Catholic tradition to a church where “great and painful confusion” currently reigns.
