Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
To contribute to Perspectives or submit an article, contact cta@cta-usa.org.
People’s History: Jim Mize
It is one thing to think of the Second Vatican Council as a historical event and another to understand it as a living legacy… It was, and still is, a call for the people of God to re-imagine their own day-to-day practices.
People’s History: Marion Flynn
Perhaps this — the reality of unfulfilled promises — is why Marion now stands with one foot out of the Catholic Church. And perhaps it is exactly why she keeps one foot in — holding out for reforms that have not yet come.
Diana Marin writes on "Love in a Time of Climate Change"
How can the story we tell about the world move beyond destruction, to the possibility of a more beautiful future, the future we long to inhabit?
In memoriam: Robert McClory (1932-2015)
Bob McClory represented the gold standard of his trade, and of post-Vatican II lay engagement, when he died at the age of 82 on April 3, 2015: the day commemorating Jesus' own death, two weeks before a gala dinner celebrating the founding generation of CTA, and at the very moment I sat on a commuter train, riding up to Bob's hometown to represent the organization he had helped create.