Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
To contribute to Perspectives, email Jason at: Jason@cta-usa.org
On Bearing Witness at the Minnesota Governor's Mansion
I listened and teared up as an eleven year old African American girl stand up and speak through tears about how adults say that if you're in trouble you should call the police, but now she's scared to.
10 Reasons I believe in the Sacrament of Marriage
I love ritual. It unites us with the cloud of witnesses that have made these same promises before us and all that will in the future.
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.