Environmental activists in Massachusetts plan to publicly express their solidarity with the people of Appalachia and others who are protesting the destructive coal mining practice of mountain top removal. Pat Gozemba, a member of Salem Alliance for the Environment invites…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Raising Holy Hell about Mountaintop Removal is “Holy Spirit Work.”
Tagged with: 350.org, Appalachia, Catholic Committee of Appalachia, Fr. John Rausch, Kentucky, Mountaintop Removal, Pat Gozemba, SAFE, Salem
Posted in Care of Creation, Coal Mining, Environment, Environmental Justice, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Care of Creation, Coal Mining, Environment, Environmental Justice, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Trayvon Martin and Timothy Dolan
“It is time for a new vision of a universal Church whose all-inclusive justice and unconditional love…can lead to a future that preserves the true right to life of all of God’s creatures.” Bert Thelen If Cardinal Tim Dolan was…
Tagged with: Bert Thelen, Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, Cardinal George, Cardinal Pell, Florida, George Zimmerman, Ku Klux Klan, Laity in Leadership, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, LGBT Catholic, NARTH, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Timothy M. Dolan, Trayvon Martin
Posted in Cardinals, Child sex abuse, Freedom of Religion, I BLOG, LGBT Catholics, Missal Changes, Obamacare, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Women in the Church
Posted in Cardinals, Child sex abuse, Freedom of Religion, I BLOG, LGBT Catholics, Missal Changes, Obamacare, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Women in the Church
Divest: A Gospel Lesson?
“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” Luke 10: 2 God knows our planet is in peril. Everywhere we turn there is work to…
Tagged with: Bill HUdson, Carla Hale, Christa Dias, David Cohen, Divestment, Fr. Helmut Schuller, protecting church funds
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Healthcare, I BLOG, LGBT Catholics, Obamacare, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Healthcare, I BLOG, LGBT Catholics, Obamacare, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Spontaneous Combustion at First Tabernacle, DC
Tagged with: anatomy of love, Church of God and Saints in Christ, Elder Charles Watson, First Tabernacle, John Webster, Micah, Sean Sullivan, SNAP, Tabernacle
Posted in African American Judaism, Faith, Family and Friends, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, Friends, Hunger, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in African American Judaism, Faith, Family and Friends, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, Friends, Hunger, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Homage to Joe Bageant
This post is dedicated, with thanks, to Pat Gozemba who introduced me to Joe Bageant—one of her heroes. It’s a tiny tavern at the corner of Kent and Fairfax in historic Winchester, Virginia. Despite its name, there is nothing royal…
Tagged with: Blue-collar worker, Brian Patrick, Christine Patrick, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, Joe Bageant, Pat Gozemba, Royal Lunch, Virginia, Winchester, Winchester Book Gallery
Posted in Class warfare, Faith, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Justice, Middle Class, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
Posted in Class warfare, Faith, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Justice, Middle Class, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
We,the Body of Christ
Corpus Christi Sunday Mass at St. Stanislaus Kostka R.C. Church, built in 1891 on the Strip in Pittsburgh. The presider reminds us that the body of Christ is both the sacrament we receive and our communion with each other as…
Tagged with: Andrew Greeley, Corpus Christi, Pittsburgh, St. Stanislaus Kostka, Strip District
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Looking for the “Doorway to Compassion,” LGBT Catholics Find Doorway to Cathedral Closed
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…
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.…
Emma’s Revolution: “Peace. Salaam. Shalom.”
Being at the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu yesterday evening was a very catholic experience. Not a sign of the cross anywhere, but plenty of light and air in the room, illuminating issues that go to the heart of Catholic…
Tagged with: climate change, Death Penalty, drone warfare, Emma Goldman, Gary Johnson, GMO, Karen Kahn, Middle East, Pat Gozemba, Pat Humphries, Sandy O, Suzanne Young, Tambry Young, women's ordination
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
