Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
To contribute to Perspectives, email Jason at: Jason@cta-usa.org
Of Habits and Hobbits
What I do challenge is the idea that what women religious wear marks the authenticity of their identity as consecrated women. A nun or sister is not more or less committed, faithful, or prophetic based on her choice of dress.
Cookie Monster and the limits of the theological enterprise
These Phylosophical Dictes and Sayenges of Cookie Monster made me consider the noted eleventh-century theologian Anselm of Canterbury. And to get to him, I had to go through Garry Wills.
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