The noise from the extreme right being extremely wrong about women has made me think about some of the strong women in my life. My very strong mother, Gladys (Vaz) Morais, my older sister Elaine, and the feisty Irish Franciscan…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
Blog Archives
Class Warfare? Yes, On Women.
“Class Warfare” has become the verbal cudgel of choice for the GOP candidates for President. People like Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have been trying to add some nails to that cudgel by screaming “Religious Liberty!” over President Obama’s insistence…
Tagged with: Contraception, religious freedom
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Class warfare, Healthcare, I BLOG, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Women's Rights
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Class warfare, Healthcare, I BLOG, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Women's Rights
Love,Healing and Authentic Discipleship
Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever.They immediately told him about her. He approached, grasped her hand, and helped her up. Then the fever left her and she waited on them. Mark 1: 30-31 Fr. Tim Eden nurses a grudge…
Tagged with: Healthcare, Pro Life, Pro Poor, Romney, Women's Health
Posted in Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Planned Parenthood, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Planned Parenthood, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
The Politics of Envy . . .and Silence
Why are the Bishops silent? On the stump, politicians who would be President speak of the “politics of envy” and “class warfare.” Mormon Mitt and conspicuously Catholic Rick and Newt want the hurting poor to get over their “envy” of…
Tagged with: Church Leaders, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, preferential option for the poor, Rick Santorum, US Bishops, vulture capitalists
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholics and Culture, Christian Politicians, Devout Catholic Policians, Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Religion and Political Discourse, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Workers' Rights
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholics and Culture, Christian Politicians, Devout Catholic Policians, Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Religion and Political Discourse, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Workers' Rights
From Yule Log to Bûche de Noel
2011: I decided that this was the year to bake and ice a Yule Log. I had watched my mother, the cake artist, do it many times but had never tried making one myself. For starters, I wasn’t sure that…
Tagged with: Catholic vote, Newt Gingrich, preferential option for the poor, President Obama, yule log
Posted in Catholic, Christian Politicians, I BLOG, Lay Catholics, Missal Changes, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Catholic, Christian Politicians, I BLOG, Lay Catholics, Missal Changes, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Suffer the little children….
. . .was not supposed to mean “let the children suffer.” What is it about these men Hell-bent on winning souls— Or football games? When Do they start becoming blind, Deaf, derelict and craven: Transfixed by what they find? Our…
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…
Deaf
What a sad, sad, parade of powerful men making the news. Their predatory behavior is damning enough. But the behavior of each one also speaks to a spiritual and emotional deafness to those in whose midst each man built his…
Tagged with: Belgian Bishop Vangheluwe, DKE, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF, Schwarzenegger, US Bishops, YAle
Posted in Business and Justice, Family and Friends, I BLOG, Politicians and their Lies, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Business and Justice, Family and Friends, I BLOG, Politicians and their Lies, Uncategorized, US Bishops
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
Dawn Morais 