This post was first published as an Island Voices column in the SUNDAY STAR ADVERTISER. Republished here with permission. After the parades and the invocation of the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. what can we honestly expect in…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Honor MLK by carrying out his vision: It’s past time for a real LIVING WAGE in Hawaii
Tagged with: Living Wage Hawaii, MLK Jr.
Posted in Affordable Housing, Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, I BLOG, Politics and Religion
Posted in Affordable Housing, Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, I BLOG, Politics and Religion
Kings Bay Plowshares defend their resistance to nuclear weapons
Professor Jeannine Hill Fletcher of Fordham University reads a statement she prepared about the King’s Bay Plowshares action being fully in accord with centuries-old, fundamental Catholic social teaching. In court this morning Prof. Fletcher provided deeply moving testimony about the…
LGBTQI Catholics in Honolulu celebrate Solidarity Sunday at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
On October 7, 2018, a small group joined in a lay-led liturgy at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, organized by the Honolulu chapter of Dignity USA in advance of Coming Out Day 2018. I was honored to be invited to participate…
Sr. Donna Markham: We are called to welcome the stranger
When the President & CEO of Catholic Charities USA, Sr. Donna Markham spoke at the Mystical Rose Oratory at Chaminade University in Honolulu on Sunday September 30, 2018, she relieved the bleak landscape of our daily news with stories which…
Blowing through St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church: The spirit of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin
YES! The once dilapidated rectory at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church has been given new livery and new innards, and is reborn as Honolulu’s first Catholic Worker house of hospitality. It is affectionately named “Wallyhouse” in recognition of the efforts…
JOY! Fr. George Cerniglia S.M. Celebrates Diamond Jubilee of Religious Profession
Jesus said: “I call you friends.” That reminder was offered by The Very Rev. Martin Solma, Provincial of the Marianist Province of the United States, the main Presider at the mass to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Fr. George Cerniglia. Not…
Support SB3095 (Environmental Protection) if you believe in Care of Creation. Testimony due Sun Feb 11
https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=3095&year=2018 If Catholic teaching on stewardship of the planet matters to you, supporting SB 3095 would be a practical expression of that faith. Below are excerpts from http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/care-for-creation.cfm “We show our respect for the Creator by our stewardship of…
Bishop: Pastors Must Deny Funerals to Catholics in Same-Gender Marriages
Originally posted on Bondings 2.0:
An Illinois bishop has released guidelines about same-gender marriages that may greatly restrict participation in his diocese’s parishes by people in such marriages. Bishop Thomas Paprocki Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield issued his “Same-Sex Marriage Policies…
Fr. John Madden: Challenging the Church, its leaders, and the laity
The August 26-Sep 8, 2016 issue of the National Catholic Reporter carried an editor’s note by Dennis Coday about Fr. John Madden, a priest of the Syracuse, N.Y. diocese for nearly six decades, who died Aug 10 at the age…
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
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