Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
To contribute to Perspectives, email Jason at: Jason@cta-usa.org
Easter: Parousia
Darkness and light,/in cycles come./When darkness envelops all/The light begins to thrum.
Good Friday
March honors the legacy and witness of Archbishop Óscar Romero, a prophetic voice who called for change in church and society—a voice for peace in the midst of a wilderness of violence.
Holy Thursday
Revolutionary love, love grounded in service, is always baffling. Acts of service, solidarity, and justice make no sense in a world grounded in white supremacy, sexism, and economic exploitation. But that’s exactly why they matter.
Palm Sunday
How can anyone who hears fearless Mary’s voice in the Magnificat think she would not have insisted on holding her precious Child once more? I do believe she would have challenged the witnesses to His lynching to acknowledge His humanity and own their complicity in His torture and death.
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Not only do we have to give up our personal plans, we also have to be willing to live with insecurity, uncertainty, even danger, in order to speak truth to power.
Fourth Sunday of Lent
It is in living my truth as a gay man, a queer human, that I am saved through God.
Mutual aid: material and spiritual
Deepening our commitment to all forms of mutual aid could help us change the church.
Third Sunday of Lent
Like Jesus, we need only to upend what conforms to our known context and experience.
Second Sunday of Lent
With the experience of working with families of mixed status, I can truly say that I have “journeyed with the Lord in the land of the living.”
First Sunday of Lent
As we live into the Lenten season, a solemn time in our liturgical calendar and lives, I share my struggles with understanding and commemorating this time of the year.