The 2015 Call To Action Conference will be held November 6-8, 2015 in Milwaukee, WI at the Wisconsin Convention Center downtown. 

As we look at these three Marys, we will consider who they were and the strength and leadership they embodied.

We stand with Roy Bourgeois and School of America’s Watch because we stand strong together, outside of institutional hierarchical fear.

At the Call To Action conference in Milwaukee earlier this month, more than 1,000 Catholics affirmed a Catholic Church Worker Declaration, standing with church workers who have lost their jobs in employment disputes, many of them centered on LGBT topics.

Among dozens of workshops, caucuses and keynote presentations at the Call to Action conference here Nov. 6-8, one event was especially poignant. About 30 former and active church workers, along with friends of church workers, sat in a circle and shared stories of how they and others laboring for the church have been fired, ostracized and maltreated.

On the evening of Nov. 6, more than 1,000 people gathered in Milwaukee to kick off the 39th annual Call to Action conference. The event offered an infusion of lay empowerment in a season dominated by the papal visit to the U.S. and the Synod of Bishops in Rome.

Last weekend at our Call To Action conference, Call To Action partnered with Milwaukee's Coalition for Justice and held a march to Red Arrow Park where Dontre Hamilton, an unarmed black man was shot 14 times by a local police officer.

We invite all Catholics to join us in creating Catholic workplaces (hospitals, schools, parishes, diocesan offices, affiliated organizations) where Truth is the guide, Justice the end, and Love the guiding force.