Speakers and Artists Referral Service

This service is being provided at the request of our Call To Action regional chapters. It is intended to facilitate their selection of speakers and performers for regional conferences and seminars. However, others are welcome to use it.

Since this is a referral service, CTA will give you information about speakers or artists that will enable you to contact them. Thereafter, you will deal directly with the speakers or performers. You can ask them about their availability, for references, or any other information you need to have that has not been provided.

If you are interested in contacting a certain speaker or performer, please contact us by phone, fax or e-mail:

Kimberly Ziyavo
Call To Action
2135 W. Roscoe, Chicago, IL 60618
Ph: 773-404-0004 ext. 265, Fax: 773-404-1610
E-mail: kim@cta-usa.org



A Sampling of Possible Speakers

Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church (ARCC): A Constitution for the Catholic Church

Art Baranowski: Renewing the Parish through Small Faith Communities; The 21st Century Parish: A Practical Model

Clementine Barfield-Dye: Save Our Sons and Daughters (SOSAD)

Maria Antonietta Berriozabal: The Global, The Political, The Personal: A Catholic Woman Looks at Beijing

Mauro Pineda: Call To Action Anti-Racism

Rosemary Bleuher: Drawing on Our Collective Wisdom

Kim Bobo: Justice for Workers

Fred Boehrer: Just Say No to Warmaking: Catholic Pacifism

Patricia Bombard: Cultivating a Spirituality for the 21st Century

Patrick Brennan: From 'The Last Priest in America' to the Priesthood of the Faithful; Tradition and McChurch: Baby Busters and Generation X-ers

Mary Ruth Broz, RSM and Barbara Flynn: Entering the Sacred River

Bill Callahan: Liberation Dreams: Buffeted but Alive; Noisy Contemplation

Jim Conlon: Geo-Wisdom: Soulwork for the New Millennium

Bernard J. Cooke: Call to Action? WHAT Action?; Eucharist: Key to Christian Spirituality

Frank Cordaro: Following the Nonviolent Jesus: A Call for a Resistance Church

James Coriden: Canon Law and the Rights of Parishes

Michael Crosby, OFMCap: What We and Our Bishops Can Learn from Robert McNamara; Mary: Model of Liberation

Charles E. Curran: Catholic Moral Theology and John Paul II; Being Catholic in the United States; Living in the Church Today: Theological and Spiritual Perspectives

Bill D'Antonio: Small Faith Communities in the U.S.

Barbara Darling: Small Community Resources: How to Choose 'Em, How to Use 'Em

Terry Dosh: Power, Not Sex: The Core of Mandatory Celibacy

Ray Doud: How to Gather the Fruits: Small Faith Community Reflection

Marianne Duddy: Gay-Lesbian Issues in Today's Church; Gay/Lesbian Spirituality

Peter Eichton: How to Speak with Justice

Fran Ferder, fspa and John Heagle: The Church and Human Sexuality: Frontier for the Future; In the Beginning Is Relationship: Human Sexuality as Energy for Love and Service

Maureen Fiedler, SL: An Initial Agenda for Vatican III: The We Are Church Referendum Campaign; Political Analysis of the Roman Catholic Church: What We Learned from the Referendum

Ruth Fitzpatrick: Discipleship of Equals: Breaking Bread/Doing Justice; Telling Our Stories: Reclaiming Our Church Her/story

Matthew Fox: The Seven Chakra and the Mystics of Creation Spirituality

Tom Fox: Working for Justice - On the Internet

Richelle Friedman, PBVM: Reversing the Myths: A Call to Political Action

Loretta Garing, Diane Maertens & Nancy Siekierka: The Disabled Body of Christ: The Kingdom is Here!

Edwina Gateley: Women in Scripture: Models for the Reform Movement; Spirituality and Healing: The Journey to Wholeness; Mystics, Mysticism and the Return of the Mother God; One Woman's Faith Journey

Paul Giblin: Toward a Spirituality of Marriage and Family

Al Gini: Work, Identity and the Self: How We are Formed by the Work We Do The Lack of Vision and Purpose in Our Work

Dr. Greer G. Gordon: The Inner City Child and the Church

Jeannine Gramick, SSND: Gay/Lesbian Equality: What If We Meant What We Said

Marianne Griebler: How to Start a Grassroots Small Faith Community; Washing Each Other's Feet: Servant Leadership in Small Faith Communities

Thomas J. Gumbleton: Homophobia and the Ministry to Gay and Lesbian Catholics; Call to Action: Past, Present, Future; Focus on the Justice Agenda

Louise Haggett: Rent A Priest: A Solution to Priestless Parishes

Mary Louise Hartman: Building the Parish for the Next Millennium

Diana Hayes: Voices of Women of Color; Liberation Theology and the Black Experience; Reclaiming Our Vision: Seeing Ministry with New Eyes

JosÈ Hobday, OSF: Spirituality and Middlescence; Gifts for You from American Native Spirituality; Toward the Marginals: Your Spirituality in Action

Virginia Hoffman: Small Faith Communities: A Grassroots Revolution; Thinking Outside the Box: From Call to Action

Tom HonorÈ: Why So Few Black Catholics in America?

Gabe Huck: What's Sunday Mass in the Parish Got to Do with Justice?

Mary E. Hunt: Where Reform Meets Revolution and Revolution Meets Reform

Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz: Embracing Differences: A Matter of Survival

Lisa January: The Meaning of "Colorblindness:" What Will the Repeal of Affirmative Action Mean?; Skills for Conflict Resolution

Andrea M. Johnson: "It's About the Elephant in the Living Room:" Ten Reasons to Ordain Women

Theresa Kane, RSM: Towards the 21st Century: Transforming Patriarchy and Domination; A New Millennium: Women Breaking Through a Patriarchal Church

Philip Kaufman, OSB: The Beloved Disciple: Witness Against Anti-Semitism

Patricia Killen: With Wisdom and Skill: Leading "Catholic Communities Under Reconstruction"

Ernest Larkin, O. Carm.: The Mystic and the Prophet

Bernard Lee: Small Christian Communities: Mainstream and Marginal; Catholic Community under Reconstruction: Small Christian Communities

Raymond Lucker: What are the Essential Church Teaching?

Robert A. Ludwig: Reconstructing Catholicism for a New Generation; The Jesus Path: What Did He Teach and What Does It Mean Today?

Robert McClory: Birth Control: The Church's Albatross; Who Runs the Church?

Carmel McEnroy, RSM: Guests in their Own House: The Women of Vatican II

Kathy McGinnis and Gloria Green: Families Against Violence: A Spiritual and Social Challenge

Mary Benet McKinney, OSB: Discernment: A Process for Touching Into the Wisdom of the Spirit

John McNeill: Mature Spirituality: The Holy Spirit is Founder of a Democratic Church

Joanna Manning: Spirituality and Catholic Education: let the Poor Be Our Teachers

Bridget Mary Meehan, SFCC: Family Prayer: Introducing Children t Feminine Images of God

Amata Miller, IHM: New Economic Realities: New Call for Kindom-Centered Spirituality

Ched Myers: Reclaiming the Bible as "People's Book:" Popular Education, Biblical Literacy and Lay Ministry

Diann L. Neu: Creating Feminist Liturgies; Praise the Spirituality of Catholic Women: A Feminist Liturgy

Frances B. O'Connor, CSC and Becky S. Drury: How and Why Women Cooperate in Their Own Oppression in the Catholic Church: Point/Counterpoint; women: Victims or Perpetrators

Brian O'Shaughnessy: Labor and Religion: Two Old Friends That Are Driving You Bonkers

Bishop Albert Ottenweller and Nancy Westmeyer, OSF: Patriarchy to Partnership

Anthony Padovano: The Reform Tradition in the History of the Church; From Cathedral to Cafeteria Catholic: An Exploration of Personal Conscience and Catholic Identity

Lynn Partington and John McCuen: A Nation of Immigrants: A Refugee's Perspective

Michael Pfleger: The Church in the City

Linda and Ralph Pinto: Back to the Future

Azhalea (Sally) L. Ramirez: Jesus: The Experience

Ned Reidy, CSC: Living Creation Spirituality in the Local Context

Gloria Rivera: A Breath of Fresh Air: The Spirituality of the Beijing Conference

Jeanette Rodriguez: U.S. Hispanic Theology; On the Wings of an Eagle: Toward a Modern Guadalupan Spirituality

Rosemary Radford Ruether: Ecofeminism: Spirituality and Justice

Jane Russell, OSF: Small Faith Communities: Fringe Movement or Mainstream Necessity?

Christine Schenk, CSJ: Wo/men Working Within: Forming Feminist Communities of Church Reform; The Future of Priestly Ministry; Inclusive Priesthood: How to Get There From Here

Sandra Schneiders, IHM: How Feminist Interpretation of Scripture is Helping Renew the Church

John Shea: Work and Love as Spiritual Paths

Jean Sonnenberg: How Religious Communities are Birthing Associate Faith Communities

Jack and Judy Speer: A Vow of Non-Violence

John Staudenmaier, SJ: Following Jesus into the New Century: An Ignatian Spirituality for High Tech Hype

Thomas Sweetser, SJ and Mary Beth Vogel: Remaking a Servant Church from the Bottom Up

Brian Swimme: The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos

Nancy Sylvester, IHM: The Gingrich Revolution and Our Future Work for Justice; The 1996 Election and the Christian Coalition

Kathy Thornton, RSM: Acting for Justice: Welfare Reform Vigil

Jim Wallis: A New Spiritual Politics

Mary Jo Weaver: What's Right About, and Wrong With, Being Right?

Margaret Weber: The Global Economy and You

Dick Westley: Fundamentalism and the Catholic Tradition; Small Faith Communities: A "Radical" Two-Pronged Argument

Evelyn and Jim Whitehead: Sexuality and Spirituality: Exploring the Intimate Connections

Ann Willits, OP: To Tell the Truth: Dominican Spirituality

Miriam Therese Winter: Women's Leadership in Biblical Tradition; You Shall Be My Witnesses; A New Testament Spirituality: Women Disciples, Witnesses, Pioneers

Felicia Wolf, OSF: Theology of Money: Where do the Vulnerable Find Security?; Rough Spots in Community; Helping Small Faith Communities Click