. . .until he establishes justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait for his teaching. Is. 42: 1-4 It was a good way to begin the New Year: testifying before the Budget and Finance Committee of the University…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
Blog Archives
A Path to Justice and Survival: Divestment from Fossil Fuels
Tagged with: Divestment, fossil fuels, Regents, University of Hawaii
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, Environment, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, Environment, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
The Nuns Jumped Over the Wall
in memory of Fr. William Brennan, S.J. 1920- 2014. A prophet for social justice and equality, including women’s ordination. One of the most prized dishes in Chinese cuisine is called “The Monk Jumped Over the Wall.” It takes its name…
Tagged with: Dianna Mae Ortiz, Donna Quinn, Hour Children, Jeannine Grammick, Jo Piazza, Joan Dawber, Lloyd Blankfein, Madonna Buder, Maureen Fiedler, Megan Rice, Nora Nash, School Sisters of Notre Dame, Sr. Simone Campbell, TASSC, Tesa Fitzgerald
Posted in Business and Justice, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, US Bishops, US Nuns
Posted in Business and Justice, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, US Bishops, US Nuns
David Cohen: “I believe in grace.”
What better time to believe in grace than in the Easter season? Or, for David Cohen, in the season of Passover. The former president of Common Cause and “the preeminent voice of public advocacy” was still in Passover observance mode…
Raising the Minimum Wage is Pro-Life. So why aren’t all Pro-lifers for it?
Speaker of the House, John Boehner, a Catholic pro-lifer who has previously said he would rather commit suicide than raise the minimum wage, offered the logic that a raise would adversely affect minorities who hold low-wage jobs and would be…
Tagged with: Catholic Charities Hawaii, FACE, Faith Action for Community Equity, Give Hawaii a Raise, Jery Rauckhorst, John Boehner, Minimum wage, Paul Ryan, PHOCUSED, Pro Life, RE. Bob Nakata, USCCB, Women and Minimum Wage, Women's Chamber of Commerce
Posted in Business and Justice, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Business and Justice, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Hawaii: Time for Same Sex Marriage to Become Law
Bishop Larry Silva says, “No matter what our sexual attraction may be, we are all equal as persons.” Nonetheless his latest call to Catholics to fight marriage equality calls up images of transvestite cross-dressers overrunning the islands. Apparently “businesses will…
Tagged with: Bishop Larry Silva, David McCollough, Ignatius Loyola, John George Roth, katha holos, LGBT, Pope Francis, Randy Roth, Same Sex Marriage, Shylar Young, St. Francis of Assisi, Susie Roth, Suzanne Young, Tambry Young
Posted in Buddhism, Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Lay Catholics, LGBT Catholics Hawaii, LGBT Families, St. Francis of Assisi, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Buddhism, Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Lay Catholics, LGBT Catholics Hawaii, LGBT Families, St. Francis of Assisi, Uncategorized, US Bishops
How would you spend $86,400 every day?
Imagine having $86,400 deposited in your bank account every day. It comes with conditions. You have to use it –or lose what is left of it–by the end of the day. What would you do? That was the challenge Sr.…
Tagged with: Bishop Remy DeRoo, Capital, Dorothy Day, Gustavo Gutiérrez, labor, liberation theology, Pope Francis, Second Vatican Council, Sr. Anne Smollin
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, Governing, Human Rights, I BLOG, Justice, Lay Catholics, Obamacare, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, Governing, Human Rights, I BLOG, Justice, Lay Catholics, Obamacare, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
Presidential Candidates: Extractive or Generative?
In her latest book, Owning Our Future, Marjorie Kelly tells a hopeful story of “Journeys to a Generative Economy.” She describes people who are actually helping to build an economy “around ideals like fairness, community and sustainability—an economy that in…
Tagged with: Affordable Care Act, Claritssa Sanchez, Education, Marjorie Kelly, Medicare, Paul Ryan, Pell Grant, Romney, Todd Akin
Posted in Business and Justice, Healthcare, I BLOG, Seniors, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, Healthcare, I BLOG, Seniors, Sustainability, Uncategorized
The Politics of Envy . . .and Silence
Why are the Bishops silent? On the stump, politicians who would be President speak of the “politics of envy” and “class warfare.” Mormon Mitt and conspicuously Catholic Rick and Newt want the hurting poor to get over their “envy” of…
Tagged with: Church Leaders, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, preferential option for the poor, Rick Santorum, US Bishops, vulture capitalists
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholics and Culture, Christian Politicians, Devout Catholic Policians, Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Religion and Political Discourse, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Workers' Rights
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholics and Culture, Christian Politicians, Devout Catholic Policians, Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Religion and Political Discourse, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Workers' Rights
“Essential Cerebral Clout”–Where did it go?
It’s missing, said Irish Dominican Sr. Margaret MacCurtain, referring to the absence of intellectual rigor in the Vatican’s outlook on the world. But in speaking of the lack of “essential cerebral clout” she was really describing a condition just as…
Tagged with: Derrida, Sr. Margaret MacCurtain
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Religion and Political Discourse, Sports and Sexual Abuse, Uncategorized, Vatican
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Religion and Political Discourse, Sports and Sexual Abuse, Uncategorized, Vatican
Who do they say I am?
The conversation between Christ and his disciples described in the Gospel this past Sunday is a conversation worth having with those who raise us, nurture us, mentor us, befriend us and help us along our life journey. Because along with what…
Dawn Morais 