Reporting on today’s symbolic protest in New York against Cardinal Dolan’s recent likening of LGBT Catholics to “dirty hands” that needed to be washed clean, Joseph Amodeo describes how the group who simply wanted to enter the Cathedral with charcoal-blackened…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Looking for the “Doorway to Compassion,” LGBT Catholics Find Doorway to Cathedral Closed
Tagged with: "dirty hands", Cardinal Dolan, Joseph Amodeo, Pharisee, Pope Francis, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Whited sepulchres
Posted in Equality and Faith, I BLOG, LGBT Catholics, Uncategorized
Posted in Equality and Faith, I BLOG, LGBT Catholics, Uncategorized
Building the Beloved Community: Hawaii, Malaysia and Beyond
The world that Puanani Burgess gets her audiences to visualize as she talks to them about “Building the Beloved Community” is peopled with her children and grandchildren, her husband and other family members and neighbors from her beloved rural Wai`anae.…
A Pope from Hawaii? Bring on the mischief.
South America, Argentina, Hispanics and a soccer team, have claimed him as their own. Maybe, one suggested, God is an Argentine? Perhaps we can make the case that Pope Francis is really from Hawaii. Wasn’t that the spirit of aloha…
Tagged with: Dirty War, Habemus Papam, Hubris, Iraq, Network, Paul Ryan, Pope Francis, Sr. Simone Campbell, St. Francis of Assisi
Posted in Equality and Faith, I BLOG, LGBT Families, Ordination, St. Francis of Assisi, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Vatican
Posted in Equality and Faith, I BLOG, LGBT Families, Ordination, St. Francis of Assisi, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Vatican
“As I have loved you”
“No individual or group will be provided space and opportunity to promote information and/or opinion that is contrary to Catholic belief and practice.” The new set of guidelines on who may or may not speak in Catholic institutions in Hawaii…
Tagged with: Hawaii Catholic Herald, Pope Benedict, womenpriests
Posted in Easter, Equality and Faith, Good Friday, I BLOG, Maundy Thursday
Posted in Easter, Equality and Faith, Good Friday, I BLOG, Maundy Thursday
Solidarity Sunday in Honolulu
Last night in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Honolulu, a small group gathered to say to our LGBT brothers and sisters that we believe that Christ does not discriminate. There is apparently no room in any of Hawaii’s Catholic churches…
Wisconsin: Dorothy Day vs the Son of a Preacher
Dorothy Day spoke of a desire to “change the world–make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the…
Tagged with: Catholic Church, Gingrich, Unions, US Bishops, Wisconsin
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholics and Culture, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, US Bishops, Workers' Rights
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholics and Culture, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, US Bishops, Workers' Rights
Let Love Prevail
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. John 1:4-8 Connie Florez is the founder and CEO of Hula Girl Productions and the director/producer of several award-winning films that perpetuate the stories of the past through…
Aloha. “Do not turn your back on your own.”
. . . Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless; clothe the naked when you see them, and do not turn your back on your own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn. …
Tagged with: aloha, Eqypt, light
Posted in Aloha, Business and Justice, Catholics and Culture, Civic Square, Equality and Faith, Family and Friends, Governing, I BLOG, Justice, LGBT Catholics Hawaii, LGBT Families, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in Aloha, Business and Justice, Catholics and Culture, Civic Square, Equality and Faith, Family and Friends, Governing, I BLOG, Justice, LGBT Catholics Hawaii, LGBT Families, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
LGBT Families in HI ask “Can you see me now?”
Faith asks a great deal of us. We are expected to see what is not necessarily visible and hear and understand that which is ineffable. That capacity to see and hear with both faith and conscience lies at the heart…
MLK Revisited: End the Injustice of “For Heterosexuals Only”
Nearly 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King challenged America to “stand up for freedom together.” He called for an end to the assault on the dignity and rights of black citizens that the signs “For Whites Only” represented. Today…
Dawn Morais 