
More than a quarter of the 25 seats in the Hawaii Senate are held by women. More than a quarter of the 51 seats in the Hawaii House of Representatives are held by women. But that apparently wasn’t enough woman…
More than a quarter of the 25 seats in the Hawaii Senate are held by women. More than a quarter of the 51 seats in the Hawaii House of Representatives are held by women. But that apparently wasn’t enough woman…
The Fight for $15 in Hawaii ground to a halt in late February this year when it reached the Senate’s Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Senator Donovan Dela Cruz, a Democrat. The effort to help workers make ends meet…
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…
These pre-election days are filled with the noise of a number of Catholic Bishops issuing denunciations of “some candidates and one party” because of positions on contraception, abortion and gay marriage that the Bishops deem “intrinsically evil” or against the…
Maybe it is because Halloween is almost upon us. But some very ghoulish men are walking the earth spewing hateful, uneducated nonsense at women. Let’s make one thing clear: When Mary said, “Be it done to me according to Thy…
This is the week in which we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the start of Vatican II, that empowering event that makes it possible to still be a thinking Catholic today. This is the week in which two Catholic politicians,…
Earlier this year, Pope Benedict XVI spoke to US Bishops about the need for an “engaged, articulate and well-formed Catholic laity endowed with a strong critical sense” to counter any effort to draw Catholic individuals and institutions into “intrinsically evil…
This guest post by Dr. Pat Gozemba first appeared in Civil Beat July 25, 2012 Long before feminism made me believe I had a social and political mission focused on justice for all, the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur,…
Anyone who thinks the GOP is captive to Tea Party extremists, obviously has not been paying enough attention to what might be seen as a strong strain of “GOP postmodernism” coming from really deep thinkers like the Newt. I know…