Originally posted on Feminism and Religion:
I wrote this letter to President Obama on November 18, the morning after I returned from a few days at Standing Rock. I am not an activist by temperament. I went to Standing Rock…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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An Open Letter to President Obama about the Dakota Access Pipeline by Elizabeth Cunningham
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…
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
COME TO TOWN HALL TONIGHT. Sacred Hearts Academy. LONG TERM CARE INSURANCE for all
FEB 29 TOWN HALL ON SB 2478, UNIVERSAL LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE, SUPPORTING IN-HOME CARE FOR SENIORS BREAKING NEWS: Senate Ways and Means Committee Does NOT Pass SB2478. Advocates Redouble their efforts with House bill Free Community Meeting at Sacred Hearts…
Guest Post by Connie Schultz: “How Racists Talk About Tamir Rice”
This recent column by Connie Schultz is reproduced here with her kind permission. As a Catholic, I wait for something approaching her empathy from the bishops who have been been willing to take on the White House, punish dissenting women…
Tagged with: Connie Schultz, Tamir Rice
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Christmas 2015. A Refugee is Born
Christmas Day sermon by Fr. David Gierlach, St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, Honolulu. Reproduced here with permission. Accepting what happens on Christmas is an uphill battle. After all, it’s quite a leap to believe in a God who becomes a human…
Tagged with: Christmas in Honolulu, David Gierlach, Honolulu, refugee crisis, St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Confederate Flag and the Doctrine of Discovery: Time to Repudiate Both.
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…
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
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…
A Path to Justice and Survival: Divestment from Fossil Fuels
. . .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…
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
Dawn Morais 