In the wake of the right-wing campaign targeting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Call To Action’s Vision Council and Anti-Racism Team release a statement in support of the sisters and the LGBTQIA+ community.

On May 26, outgoing CTA Executive Director Donna Tarney announced her departure from Call To Action. The Vision Council released a statement announcing Lauren Barbato as the permanent executive director. Read Donna’s letter and the Vision Council statement.

In the latest blow to trans rights and justice, a doctrinal committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops released a new document forbidding gender-affirming procedures to treat gender dysphoria.

Our statement on the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the powerful conservative intellectual often embroiled in scandal.

Call To Action condemns Frank Pavone and his violent anti-abortion ministry, which promotes single-minded extremism in direct opposition to our mission as Catholics. Dismissing Pavone from his clerical role is long overdue.

CTA calls on American Catholics to unite to protect pregnant people and others who will face increased threats of violence and criminalization from this decision.

The Vision Council, Anti-Racism Team, and wider Call To Action community mourn and pray for the victims, families, and all impacted by the horrific, white-supremacist massacre in Buffalo, New York on Saturday May 14, 2022. Anti-Black racism must end now.

This most recent, devastating news represents another turn toward state-sponsored violence, racism, and misogyny in the United States. We invite Catholics to lean into the conversation. We cannot remain silent.

In a small Pennsylvania town, chalk on the path into the park reads, “When Black Lives Matter, then all lives will matter. Love guides justice. Silence is consent. Don’t be quiet.”