Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
To contribute to Perspectives, email Jason at: Jason@cta-usa.org
The history of accomplicehood that is Pride Month
Solidarity is messy, accomplicehood is messy. It changes the narrative of “I support you” to “I am with you” … “I am willing and I will get my hands dirty with you and for you when you can’t.”
Encountering the Holy at the Threshold
At the opening retreat of this year’s Re/Generation cohort, I met so many others who also found themselves on that threshold. They helped me see that it does not have to be a temporary pass-through.
You make decisions because you love yourself: a personal story of abortion
I sometimes wish I had a “nicer” abortion story, but not because it would have made the decision or procedure easier.
A Witness to Pain, A Witness to Healing
“Am I a vessel for stories? How can I hold these stories as beloved rather than burdensome? Can God hold them with me?”
Easter reflection
Despite the issues that plague our world and society we must never forget that this world, this creation, is good. Our hope relies on the fact that the one who models the way of openness, Jesus Christ, has been resurrected.
Palm Sunday reflection
To resist racism is to take risks. It is to endure insult, sometimes harassment, and in Charlottesville, even death. But we must do so even when we are tired, afraid or angry.
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.