Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
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Fifth Sunday of Lent
In this text, God acts like a community organizer. God offers to Her people a vision of a new world, where freedom from captivity is the norm and flourishing wholeness, ecological interdependence, and justice are the principles that undergird this freedom.
Fourth Sunday of Lent
This is the challenge of the story for us. We are forgiven: Thanks be to God! But we are to be reconcilers like the Father.
Third Sunday of Lent
How far is our country from the message that the scripture provides? I wonder as this reading is proclaimed in every Catholic church in this country, will people hear the words God is saying?
Second Sunday of Lent
The Second Sunday of Lent challenges us to see ourselves in the light of God. As we allow the Light of God to shine upon us we can see ourselves as God sees us, and be seen as God sees us. And we do not need to be afraid because our God is all Goodness and Love.
First Sunday of Lent
Lent is a season of resistance. Resistance to the evil that can turn us away from the way Jesus lived and asks us to follow.
Ash Wednesday reflection
We as individuals are wounded and corrupted by racism, sexism, xenophobia and homophobia. We have no room to condemn others or to boast about how far we have come.
Easter reflection
Lent is a time each year to focus on leaving behind the slavery of Egypt and adapting the ways of the wilderness. Shaking off the bonds of privilege is our wilderness journey.
Palm Sunday reflection
We need only see ourselves in the struggles of the Apostles to realize how difficult it is to see the reality of racism “in a different way.”
Consider The Puppies
What Shiloh doesn’t know about are the systems that she and her owners live in. She doesn’t know that peeing on a laptop or ripping up the carpet means that her owners have to pay their landlord or a computer company extra money.