Originally posted on Bondings 2.0:
The following is a statement of Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry’s Executive Director, released on June 12, 2016, in response to the mass shooting at a gay and lesbian nightclub in Orlando, Florida, earlier that day.…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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In Orlando’s Wake, Catholic Ministry Calls on Church Leaders to Condemn Anti-LGBT Violence
A Woman Leads: US Politics 2016
There is no shortage of men in power. No shortage of men who are ready to issue warnings and threaten punishment for straying from the party line. No shortage of men ready to hold forth in front of cameras. And…
A resource for the election season! From the US Bishops!
Wow! The bishops have finally been moved to speak out, and possibly help Catholics deal with the poisonous rhetoric from the GOP stable of once aspiring Presidential hopefuls, and their now firmly established presumptive nominee. An electronic flyer has just…
Tagged with: Christian voters, election resource, Trump, US Bishops
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Bernie Sanders on Poverty
Bernie Sanders, candidate for President, says what the United States bishops should be proclaiming from every pulpit; what they should be saying at every society dinner they attend, every TV appearance they make, every instruction they send to clergy and…
Tagged with: Bernie Sanders, Poverty in the U.S.
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Daniel Berrigan S.J. An Ambition to Be Useless
“I wanted to be useless/As life itself; so/I told the president so/and told the pope so/and told the police so.” “Ambition,” Daniel Berrigan. And the Risen Bread: Selected Poems 1957-1997. Fordham University Press. 1998. “It’s been a very difficult question…
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Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Easter, West and East by Laura Shannon
Originally posted on Feminism and Religion:
Western Easter has come and gone, and I missed it this year, by design. I went to Athens for the weekend, where Easter this year won’t come until May 1. In the Greek Orthodox Church,…
Tagged with: Easter, Greece, Laura Shannon, refugees, Resurrection
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Posted in Easter, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Sanders Invites Christian Students to Consider the “Justice” and “Morality” of Extreme Income Inequality
Bernie Sanders’ speech at Liberty University was barely mentioned by the media. They were too busy covering the GOP front-runner’s never-ending parade of insults and incitements to violence. So here is the Sanders’ speech in its entirety. Bernie Sanders drew…
Tagged with: Justice, Liberty University, morality, Sanders
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Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Bernie Sanders’ Franciscan View of the World
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Hawaii4Bernie2016/ To read globally recognized Franciscan friar Richard Rohr’s Eager to Love is to discover a lens through which to understand and appreciate the way Bernie Sanders looks at the world, and what his call for “revolution” is all about.…
Tagged with: Bernie Sanders, Catholics for Bernie Sanders, Eager to Love, Richard Rohr
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, I BLOG, Politics and Religion
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, I BLOG, Politics and Religion
Bernie Sanders: The Catholic Candidate
“Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that. You cannot hold onto the old, all the while declaring that you want something new. . . . There is only one way…
Tagged with: Bernie Sanders, Death Penalty, jobs, Justice, redistribution of wealth, War
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Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Heads of Christian Churches Counter Franklin Graham’s “Biblical Values.”
This commentary by the heads of all of the Episcopal, Lutheran (ELCA), United Church of Christ, and United Methodist churches in the Hawaiian islands was first published in Civil Beat 3/7/2016. We are aware that our world is an increasingly interconnected…
Dawn Morais 