Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
To contribute to Perspectives, email Jason at: Jason@cta-usa.org
Roots and Branches
Laying under a tree
on a hot summer eve
with the solstice sun still hanging
in the deep, blue sky.
Why the feminine face of God matters
Catholics seem to be starved for the feminine Divine in their faith lives. While people may not be comfortable admitting as much, due to the over-emphasis of male-only language used for God, their actions speak otherwise.
We are Pride!!!
We are pride! All of us without exception IS fabulous, fierce, glitterful, amazing, unicornlicious…
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.