Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
To contribute to Perspectives, email Jason at: Jason@cta-usa.org
The Spirit of Non-Violence, delfín style
Soulforce is about solidarity not imposition, it is not replacing one oppressive dominant narrative with another…it is about being with people and together finding ways to transform community into spaces where all are welcome and where all coexist, across and because and with our differences.
4th Sunday of Advent
Reflecting on these readings reminds me of God’s presence in all of creation and the presence of all in God – whether or not we recognize this presence.
4th Sunday of Advent
We treasure this relationship with God and use language of kinship to describe it because that’s what’s deepest in our hearts and that is the way God has approached us, has energetically struggled to get through to us, from the beginning.
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.