First published in the Honolulu Star Advertiser Oct 23, 2025. Re-published here with permission. Being pro-life has to mean doing much more to advance complete nuclear disarmament. Archbishop of Santa Fe, John Charles Wester, challenged those who attended this year’s…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
Blog Archives
Sr. Donna Markham: We are called to welcome the stranger
When the President & CEO of Catholic Charities USA, Sr. Donna Markham spoke at the Mystical Rose Oratory at Chaminade University in Honolulu on Sunday September 30, 2018, she relieved the bleak landscape of our daily news with stories which…
JOY! Fr. George Cerniglia S.M. Celebrates Diamond Jubilee of Religious Profession
Jesus said: “I call you friends.” That reminder was offered by The Very Rev. Martin Solma, Provincial of the Marianist Province of the United States, the main Presider at the mass to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Fr. George Cerniglia. Not…
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
Reform Immigration…and Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery
Republican Senator Marco Rubio was all over this weekend’s media platforms, talking about immigration. The need for reform is urgent, he said. The political calculus and the polls are irrelevant, he said. Good. Then let us look to the week…
Gifts of the Magi
“I tell you solemnly: as a young man you fastened your belt and went about as you pleased; but when you are older you will stretch out your hands and another will tie you fast and carry you off against…
Tagged with: Chaminade University, Do not go gently into that good night, Dylan Thomas, Fr. George Cerniglia S.M., frankincense, Gifts of the Magi, Gold, love, Mary, myrrh, New Year wish
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Of Soft Hearts and Open Minds
Perhaps this is what an evening of “contemplative rhythm” feels like. The evening’s events had nothing to do with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) directly. But its spirit called to mind the words of Franciscan Sr. Pat Farrell,…
Tagged with: Buddhism, Chaminade University, Da Moms, David Randall, Education, Fujio Matsuda, Henry Gomes, Hongwanji Mission School, Jo Chang, John Dean, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Pacific Buddhist Academy, Shimeji Kanazawa, Sr. Pat Farrell, Susie Roth
Posted in I BLOG, LGBT Families, Nuns, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, LGBT Families, Nuns, Uncategorized
Villanelle for a Marianist
This poem was written in honor of Fr John Bolin S.M. and his “traveling companions” to mark his 50th year of priesthood in 2005. We dearly miss his presence and his grace in our lives. We feel confident that he…
Tagged with: Bro. Bob Maruyama, Bro. Jerry Bommer, Bro. Tom Spring, Chaminade University, Fr. John Bolin
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
“Honor” Limbaugh: Pass the Bag Fee Bill.
Radio Station KPUA on the Big Island was the first radio station in the U.S. to drop Rush Limbaugh — and they did it with class and clarity. Now Hawaii legislators can follow this brave effort to lead the nation…
Tagged with: Bag Fee bill, Chaminade University, Civic Engagement Club, Diana Sellner, Hawaii, Hogan Entrepreneurs, Rush Limbaugh
Posted in Civic Square, Civility, I BLOG, Talk Radio, Uncategorized
Posted in Civic Square, Civility, I BLOG, Talk Radio, Uncategorized
Beyond Our Prisons
Not according to our sins does he deal with us, nor does he requite us according to our crimes Psalm 103:10 On Wednesday February 16, 2011 a group of women in baggy blue-grey pants and tunics held a classroom filled…
Dawn Morais 