On August 20, Alexandra Dyer, a Roman Catholic WomanPriest was the victim of a targeted acid attack to her face. Dyer had just left a meeting at The Healing Arts Initiative in Queens, NY. As she was walking to her…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Catholic workers: Irene Fernandez and Dorothy Day
On March 31, 2014, Irene Fernandez, passed away in her country, Malaysia, after a heart attack at the age of 67. She had decades ago given up the possibility of a safe teaching career for a life devoted to addressing…
Tagged with: Amnesty International, Catholic social teaching, Catholic Worker Movement, Chaminade University, Danny O'Regan, Dorothy Day, Honolulu, Irene Fernandez, Mackey Lecture, Malaysia, Martha Hennessy, Mary House, Notre Dame University, Peter Maurin, Tenaganita
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, Human Rights in Malaysia, I BLOG, Justice, Lay Catholics, Malaysian Government, Uncategorized, War, Women in the Church, Women's Rights, Workers' Rights
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, Human Rights in Malaysia, I BLOG, Justice, Lay Catholics, Malaysian Government, Uncategorized, War, Women in the Church, Women's Rights, Workers' Rights
Women: Instruments of a Franciscan World
More than once in Paul Vallely’s excellent book, Pope Francis: Untying the Knots, the writer quotes a former long-time aide who describes Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s irritation with the high-handed advice of Rome. He had no patience, we are told, for…
Tagged with: Argentina, Jorge Bergoglio, Leonardo Boff, liberation theology, Mother of God, Paul Vallely, Solemnity of Mary, St. Austin's Church, St. Francis of Assisi, Women
Posted in Environment, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women in the Church
Posted in Environment, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women in the Church
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
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.…
Dawn Morais 