Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
To contribute to Perspectives, email Jason at: Jason@cta-usa.org
The Right to Build A Family
Not satisfied with the reversal of Roe v. Wade, some people have their eyes set on more restrictions. Read to find out how you can help preserve freedom of choice.
Third Sunday of Advent: Are We to be the Light?
For the Third Sunday of Advent, 2022, Anti-Racism Team and Indigenous Solidarity Collective member Mary Ann Reed reflects on healthcare inequity.
Second Sunday of Advent: How Do We Anticipate With Joy?
For the Second Sunday of Advent, 2022, CTA’s new Executive Director Donna Tarney reflects on the complexity of brokenness and joy.
First Sunday of Advent: Stay Awake!
For the First Sunday of Advent, 2022, Interim Executive Director Lauren Barbato reflects on what it means to “stay awake” as North American Catholics grappling with our ugly personal and collective pasts.
Sacred Necessity
Interim Executive Director Lauren Barbato reflects on the 2022 midterm elections, violence, and abortion. She writes that it’s time for Catholics to take sacred, necessary action.
CTA Constituencies Speak Out in the Synod on Synodality
A compilation of synod reports from around the country.
Our Church is Out of Time
CTA member Joseph Ramelo on disavowing capitalism and exploitation from our way of being church.
How the Poor People’s Campaign is making ‘good trouble’
CTA member Angela Howard-McParland in U.S. Catholic: “…we have a pope who has stated clearly that a good Catholic meddles in politics.”
Surveillance, Suspicion, Criminalization: The Dangers of Post-Roe America
Lauren Barbato: "We haven’t been ushered into an era free from abortion, but an era of increasing, unrestrained suspicion, surveillance, and criminalization of pregnant people. How far will we, as Catholics, allow the pro-life movement to continue down this road?"
As Catholic bishops punish dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s life and legacy show the way forward
Lauren Barbato in Religion Dispatches: “At a time when Roe will likely fall, and Catholics have substantial representation in the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, the choice to remain silent carries almost as high stakes as the choice to dissent.”