Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
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A Cape Cod sleep-over with Sr. Helen Prejean
“I didn’t have the luxury of despair,” Sr. Helen said during the Q&A session after the viewing of Dead Man Walking.
Pentecost Reflection: Wind and Fire and Water
As a child beginning in 1959, our family lived directly across the street from St Mary's Catholic Church high in the Rocky Mountains insulated from the Black Liberation Struggle in the United States. In that clear thin air, we, four little Black children, walked into the Mass of the faith that our father had passionately wrapped his arms round in 1938.
A Banquet of Diversity
My prayer is that Call To Action’s mission reaches out to the margins of the society and the Church, and the strength of the mission will call people together, creating a banquet of diversity for the betterment of the world.
The Story of Resurrection is a Story of Transition
The Resurrection is a transition—a transition that will never end as living into our being-ness is a never-ending transition. One does not complete transition, one does not finish resurrecting—both are ongoing adventures of struggle and resilience, of ups and downs, of tears of pain and tears of celebration
5th week of Easter
Resurrection is not about changing who one is, like transition, it is about affirming who one is, who we have always been, and who we will always be.
4th week of Easter
In my short time as a lay ecclesial minister, and as a young male adult for that matter, I have participated in the paschal mystery of dying and rising.