Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
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Bridge-Building and Radical Forgiveness: Standing Rock and Beyond
We're about to dive head-first into some deep and old historical traumas and wounds, and we're going to bleed in the process. But we're going to start the long work of healing.
Spirit Alive at Standing Rock: Nathan Holst's Experience
What is the legacy that we want to leave? What story do we want to give those who come seven generations after us? Though life can often be complex and simple answers sometimes elude us, the choice is still right in front of us, and those who come after us are waiting to see what we will do.
Call to Standing Rock
If we are to say we are working for justice in our church and world, if we are to take seriously the call of our faith to care for other creatures and the land, if we are to be disciples of Laudato Si, if we are to unearth and claim the deep thread of the Old Testament that ties our well-being with the flourishing of the places that sustain us, then we must be in solidarity with Standing Rock.
AYA/ATF Day 2: Surat Thani welcome
The conference has about 60 young adults from all over Asia… with the common thread between all of us-Catholicism and a focus on social justice.
Prayers of God's People for the Feast of Blessed Mary
Wondrous God, hear us. Hear our prayer, O God of Mary.
This week's RNC circus as seen through "The Armor of Light" documentary
“We’re deceived into believing that we’re so powerful because we have something that will protect us, instead of looking to God righteously as the protector--we have replaced God with our guns.”
Sr. Helen Prejean sets Cape Cod hearts on fire
Only the death of the son who is also divine can make atonement for the divine who has been offended. It’s substitutionary violence, he pays and the rest of us benefit.
On Bearing Witness at the Minnesota Governor's Mansion
I listened and teared up as an eleven year old African American girl stand up and speak through tears about how adults say that if you're in trouble you should call the police, but now she's scared to.
A Cape Cod sleep-over with Sr. Helen Prejean
“I didn’t have the luxury of despair,” Sr. Helen said during the Q&A session after the viewing of Dead Man Walking.
Pentecost Reflection: Wind and Fire and Water
As a child beginning in 1959, our family lived directly across the street from St Mary's Catholic Church high in the Rocky Mountains insulated from the Black Liberation Struggle in the United States. In that clear thin air, we, four little Black children, walked into the Mass of the faith that our father had passionately wrapped his arms round in 1938.