“To hear some people tell it, the whole sum and substance of Christianity is to oppose gay marriage and abortion, a terrible and misguided shrinking of our faith, and yet that seems to be the dominant message today. . . …
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
Blog Archives
St. Elizabeth’s Affirms Sacred Values on the Eve of the Presidential Election.
Tagged with: 2016 Presidential campaign, Moral Declaration, Repairing the breach
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Catholics: Please Do Not Cite Dorothy Day As A Reason Not To Vote
Hawaii Catholic Herald’s Oct 21, 2016 issue A recent survey jointly conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute and Religion News Service reveals that Catholics, more than any other religious group, have suffered the largest exodus from the church. While…
Tagged with: Clinton, Hawaii Catholic Herald, Paul Ryan, prolife, Trump
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
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…
The pindrop silence from church leaders is deafening
When marriage equality was still just an idea looming on the horizon, it drove some church leaders to accept strange bedfellows. Coalitions were formed. Rallies were held. Legislators were lobbied. Pastors wrote open letters to their congregations warning of dire…
Tagged with: Alt-Right, Bannon, Charles Blow, David Brooks, Gospel values, pastors, Trump, US Bishops
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, US Bishops
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, US Bishops
Guest Post: “Peace”
Sermon by Fr. David Gierlach, St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, Honolulu, seen here (right) protesting the views advanced by Rev. Franklin Graham during the latter’s visit to Honolulu earlier this year. Text reproduced here with permission. I welcome being pointed to…
Tagged with: Chris Christie, David Gierlach, Franklin Graham, Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, US Bishops
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, US Bishops
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, 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…
Tagged with: Daniel Berrigan
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
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
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
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…
Rend your hearts, not your garments . . .
Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God. Joel 2:12-18 I am not sure that Joel intended…
July 4, 2015: Revisiting the Catholic Bill of Rights
On this day in what the poet Freya Manfred, called this “sad, sweet, tragic Fourth of July world,” it is good to revisit the Catholic Bill of Rights issued by the American Catholic Council in 2011. It says in part:…
Dawn Morais 