The president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has called the Supreme Court’s ruling affirming marriage equality nationwide a “tragic error.” Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky ended his press statement with this call: “I ask…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Confederate Flag and the Doctrine of Discovery: Time to Repudiate Both.
Tagged with: Charleston, Confederate flag, Doctrine of Discovery, Sr. NIcole Trahan
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, Racism, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, Racism, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Vatican’s ‘Defeat for Humanity’ Statement Shows Church Officials Have Not Learned from the Irish Example
Originally posted on Bondings 2.0:
Reactions to Ireland’s historic referendum vote to establish same-gender marriage in that nation have brought responses from around the globe. The latest reaction came from the Vatican Secretary of State who said it was “Not a…
Tagged with: Association of Catholic Priests, LGBT Catholics, Tony Flannery
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Every Thursday: Jazz Vespers at St. Peter’s, Honolulu
We missed the big sign, but two home-made banners hung from the gates of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in downtown Honolulu, proclaiming JAZZ VESPERS TONIGHT got our attention as we drove past. We were headed to the Pacific Club just…
Tagged with: Jazz, Reggie Padilla, Rev. Diane Martinson, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Starr Kalahiki, Vespers
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Music and Faith, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Music and Faith, Uncategorized
Bishop Bars Sr. Jeannine Gramick from North Carolina Family Gathering
Originally posted on Bondings 2.0:
Sister Jeannine Gramick and Francis DeBernardo in St. Peter’s Square following the Ash Wednesday papal audience. Sr. Jeannine Gramick, co-founder of New Ways Ministry, has been barred from speaking at a Catholic parish in North Carolina,…
Tagged with: Bishop Jugis, North Carolina, PFLAG, Sr. Jeannine Grammick
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Catholics Leave Mass Over Bigoted Homily, but Not All Priests Oppose Marriage Equality
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…
Fr. Tony Flannery: Envisioning a more Christ-like church
Perhaps this is what church is meant to be: people drawn together, not by the obligations of Sunday attendance but by the call of the Gospels to build a better world. That is what it felt like as we listened…
“Look Beyond the Frame” to Build a Better Church
This is how the Media Literacy Project(MLP) describes its mission: to “transform people into critical media consumers and engaged media justice advocates who deconstruct media, inform media policy, and create media that reflect their lived experience.” Andrea Quijada, Executive Director…
Indigenous Human Rights, Women’s Rights, LGBT Rights, Children’s Rights
These last few weeks have seen important steps forward in how we address the challenge to build a more just world, a world in which we recognize, as Archbishop Tutu said, that our humanity is defined by our recognition of…
A Prayer for the Synod
“….it is necessary to say everything that in the Lord one feels should be said, with human respect, without fear. And, at the same time, one must listen with humility and receive with an open heart what the brothers say.…
Tagged with: Hosea, Pope Francis, Synod, Women in the Church
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Dawn Morais 