Racial dynamics are key to our work for social justice and our members in Maryland have made exploring these topics a key part of their work as a chapter. Last week, their day-long mini-conference, Hope for Racial Justice in our Church and Society: Planting the Seeds attracted an interested, passionate and diverse group of over 100 people, including many who were new to CTA.

Last weekend at Motor City Pride, 20/30 Team leader Lui marched with a Catholic coalition and eagerly greeted passers by at a booth with rainbow flyers and bracelets.

When LGBT advocates heard that Archbishop Cordileone of San Francisco was planning to speak at the March for Marriage in DC, they knew this went beyond differences of opinion.

Rev. Lillian Lewis has been discerning her call to the priesthood for decades, so when a Bishop's public warning was followed by anonymous calls to the hosting church, it wasn't enough to scare her.

Our CTA Families group is already planning ahead with advice for one another about travel and calls for sharing a play space for families: the community is getting excited to bring their families to Conference.

Last week, four women were ordained as priests and two as deacons in Brecksville, Ohio. CTA members and other supporters of an inclusive priesthood were among the ordained and those celebrating with them.

Last weekend, CTA Northwest Oregon hosted two members of our national Anti-Racism Team who led a workshop on how we can all work together to dismantle structures of racism in our communities.

We are proud to have been Catholic voices calling for inclusion of diverse sexual orientations, genders and gender expressions – in Catholic schools and everywhere.

The Cleveland diocese recently directed all of its 104 elementary schools to use a contract with a very specific, bullet-pointed "morality clause."

When parishioners of St. Frances Xavier and their friends in the Kansas City community heard that their friend Colleen had been fired, they rallied around her in support.

The LCWR and the religious orders that make up its membership have inspired many of us with their living example of alternative models of leadership and decision making.  A panel discussion on June 7th will focus on these revolutionary models and what we can learn from the experiments in leadership that these courageous women have lived. 

Equally Blessed is looking for LGBT families that are willing to attend World Meeting of Families to speak out for LGBT inclusion in the Catholic Church.

What does the prophetic element of the baptismal priesthood mean for the way Catholic laypeople must exercise their ministry, both to the world and in the church?

CTA members in New York have been very active in the movement to support childhood sexual abuse victims and make sure that abusers are held accountable.

Bishop Patricia Fresen spoke in Santa Barbara last week, brilliant and inspiring as ever, she spoke of the paradigm shift in our Church and hopes for a more inclusive future to an audience of over 100 people.