Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
To contribute to Perspectives, email Jason at: Jason@cta-usa.org
3rd Sunday of Advent
Advent is a time for us to truly pray for equality–the sacred right of every one of us to have at least the basics of life and more.
2nd Sunday of Advent
This Advent I resolved to look again at people I may label strange and to ask myself “How are they ‘John the Baptist’ for me? What message or lesson do they have for me?”
1st Sunday of Advent
“Would that you might meet us doing right, that we were mindful of you in our ways!” Isaiah 64:4
Changing of the guard in Chicago
I am a progressive Catholic who writes and works within a movement that is leery of hierarchy. So I have to be suspicious of any talk about “grace of office,” and I am. But as a Catholic who is at home with messy paradox, and who participates in the historic Catholic imagination, I still maintain a stable of traditional sacred persons. The departing Chicago archbishop is one of them.
Come, Holy Spirit, Come!
The Holy Spirit is foundational to who we are. It inspires and informs our work to act for justice and build inclusive communities. The Spirit’s dynamic presence embodies our quest for transformation. This is where the Spirit has called us – and continues to do so.
"We were just sitting there talking": the Guerrilla Communion saga continues
We get to a point where we must define what “we are the church” means operationally. It becomes insufficient to simply go around reassuring each other: “We are the church.” Church must become a verb.