Home › View all posts by freecatholic808 (Page 24)
Blog Archives

Catholics Leave Mass Over Bigoted Homily, but Not All Priests Oppose Marriage Equality

Posted on March 21, 2015 by freecatholic808 — Leave a comment

Originally posted on Bondings 2.0:
Gaelic footballer Eámon McGee, left, supporting the ‘Yes’ campaign Catholics in Ireland walked out of Mass recently after a priest made prejudiced and personal attacks during a homily against marriage equality, about which the Irish are…

Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized

Lent: Letting in Light and Beauty

Posted on March 14, 2015 by freecatholic808 — 1 Comment

Lent: a time of abstinence and fasting; small penances amidst our everyday abundance that remind us to savor the sweetness of life. Lent invites us to pare our lives down to essentials. It does not require us to dwell in…

Read more ›

Tagged with: , , ,
Posted in Easter, Family and Friends, I BLOG, Lent, Uncategorized

Random Kindness in the Checkout Line

Posted on January 23, 2015 by freecatholic808 — 4 Comments

This is a sweet story of a small kindness on which to end a week filled with continuing stories of war and wretchedness on the world stage. A young woman standing in the checkout line at a supermarket saw the…

Read more ›

Tagged with: , , ,
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized

Honolulu Protests Failure to Indict Officer for Eric Garner Killing. HNL City Lights 5.15 p.m. Sat 12/06/14

Posted on December 4, 2014 by freecatholic808 — 5 Comments

Kollin Elderts. Michael Brown. Tamir Rice. Eric Garner. The list is far from complete. People of color dying at the hands of those who are supposed to protect and serve. Honolulu resident, Carolyn Hadfield looks nothing like any of these…

Read more ›

Tagged with: , , , , ,
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Police Brutality, Racism, US Bishops

Noura Erakat in Honolulu: Solidarity Across Borders

Posted on November 29, 2014 by freecatholic808 — 1 Comment

No matter how much you thought you understood–or did not understand–about Palestine and Israel, you would have come away from Noura Erakat’s first talk in Honolulu with new information and a new lens through which to look at the laws,…

Read more ›

Tagged with: , , , , , ,
Posted in I BLOG, Israel, Middle East, Palestine

From Palestine to Ferguson to Hawaii: Solidarity in Resistance

Posted on November 27, 2014 by freecatholic808 — 1 Comment

Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison,…

Read more ›

Tagged with: , , , ,
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized

A Circle of Violence: Deir Yassin to Har Nof

Posted on November 22, 2014 by freecatholic808 — Leave a comment

Originally posted on Wallwritings:
By James M. Wall Early Tuesday, November 18, two young Palestinians broke into a synagogue in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of West Jerusalem’s Har Nof. Armed with a gun, knives and axes, the assailants killed three rabbis and…

Posted in Uncategorized

Noura Erakat: 3 Talks in Honolulu Nov 28- Dec 1

Posted on November 20, 2014 by freecatholic808 — Leave a comment

Originally posted on Humanize Palestine:
Salma Al-Radiya, 2 years old, was killed by shrapnel from an Israeli tank shell in Beit Lihaya, north of Gaza Strip on July 23, 2014.

Tagged with: , , , ,
Posted in Human Rights, I BLOG, Israel, Justice, Palestine, Uncategorized