Call To Action calls on white Catholics: dismantle white supremacy in the Church and in the world
White silence is violence. Today, we say “no more.”
Fire of Justice, Fuego de Justicia: A Pentecost Prayer Service Calling on Catholic Leadership to Support Immigrants
We, as Catholics in the United States, call on others in Catholic leadership to disavow Dolan's unholy alliance with Trump, and to take further action to provide sanctuary.
Denounce Catholic Alliance with Donald Trump
Call To Action’s Vision Council was outraged to hear about the recent phone call that Catholic bishops and leaders had with high-profile members of the Trump administration.
CTA Vision Council Urges Bishops to Act for Immigrant Justice
With the recent deaths at our southern border, reports about the horrifying conditions inside multiple U.S. government immigration facilities, and the deplorable actions of many border patrol and ICE agents, we at Call To Action believe that this is a time that Catholic Social Teaching calls all Catholics to stand in solidarity with immigrants.
2019 Anti-Racist Lenten Reflection Guide
Throughout Lent, members of Call To Action will be writing weekly reflections based on that Sunday’s liturgical readings. These reflections are an offering of CTA’s Anti-Racism Team.
2018 Anti-Racist Lenten Reflection Guide
Throughout Lent, members of Call To Action will be writing weekly reflections based on that Sunday’s liturgical readings. Check back at this page each Thursday to read new Lent reflections as they are posted. These reflections are an offering of CTA's Anti-Racism Team.
NCR: Charlottesville Catholics challenged to confront sin of racism
The national Catholic group Call To Action worked behind the scenes and helped finance the gathering as part of its own anti-racism initiative. Zachary Johnson, Call To Action's executive director, was encouraged that laypeople took the lead in organizing and promoting the event.
Awaiting the Birth of Justice
Throughout Advent, members of Call To Action's Anti-Racism Team will be writing weekly reflections based on that Sunday's liturgical readings.
CTA Affirms, Challenges USCCB’s “Committee Against Racism”
Call To Action Vision Council member Debra Brittenum said “To be effective, this committee must include people with lived experience of racist oppression–including those who do not have theological degrees.
The Church After Charlottesville
“The pictures of Protestant, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders standing up to neo-Nazis in Charlottesville were so inspiring,” you told us. “But where were our priests, bishops and cardinals?”
Theresa Orlando Honored as a Jefferson Award Winner
Theresa Orlando, a Call To Action member for over 20 years and one of the original members of the CTA Anti-Racism Team was named as a finalist for the 2016 Pittsburgh Jefferson Award winners for the Most Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award.
Join us at the SOAW Convergence at the US/Mexico border next week!
We are going to take a stand for justice and demand fundamental change in US policies that goes beyond elections. Come out and amplify the demands of the convergence:
Join CTA Maryland’s Racial Justice Circle Movement!
To live out the words of our mission, CTA MD planned two community events – “Planting Seeds of Racial Justice” in June 2014 and “Racism, Immigration, and the Latino Community” in October 2015.
National Black Catholic Congress (NBCC) Issues A Call to Prayer and Action
The NBCC invites Black Catholics and all people of good will to join in a time of prayer and action. We believe in the power of prayer. We also believe that we must cooperate with how God will answer our prayers.
NCR: Facing up to privilege requires conversion
This essay, an autobiographical narrative reflecting on my awareness of racism and white privilege in my theological journey, has not been easy to write.
Racial Justice Pilot Learning Project
SURJ-Faith has developed a Pilot Learning Project to support congregations/spiritual communities in responding to the call for white people of faith to be more bold in taking action for racial justice.
Wendy's protest in Florida
This Sunday, join us in letting Wendy's know that farmworkers and consumers will not tolerate the fast food chain's blatant disregard for farmworkers' human rights, and the boycott will only grow stronger the longer they hold out.
Wendy's Boycott
The Alliance for Fair Foods is organizing a boycott of Wendy's and encouraging people to stop eating at Wendy's, write a letter to their local Wendy's, and picket in front of Wendy's as well as spreading the story in social media.
Open Letter to Church Officials Calls for Racial Justice
A statement from the Archdiocese could move hundreds of thousands of white Minnesotan Catholics to deeper discernment about how we both enact and benefit from systemic racism, and how we can embody Jesus’ message of social justice in confronting this aberration of God’s creation
Say Their Names
Say Their Names is a bold and groundbreaking multimedia project designed to reclaim the stories of black lives lost unjustly to police and vigilante brutality.