Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
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Palm Sunday reflection
To resist racism is to take risks. It is to endure insult, sometimes harassment, and in Charlottesville, even death. But we must do so even when we are tired, afraid or angry.
Fifth Sunday of Lent
In this text, God acts like a community organizer. God offers to Her people a vision of a new world, where freedom from captivity is the norm and flourishing wholeness, ecological interdependence, and justice are the principles that undergird this freedom.
Fourth Sunday of Lent
This is the challenge of the story for us. We are forgiven: Thanks be to God! But we are to be reconcilers like the Father.
Third Sunday of Lent
How far is our country from the message that the scripture provides? I wonder as this reading is proclaimed in every Catholic church in this country, will people hear the words God is saying?
Second Sunday of Lent
The Second Sunday of Lent challenges us to see ourselves in the light of God. As we allow the Light of God to shine upon us we can see ourselves as God sees us, and be seen as God sees us. And we do not need to be afraid because our God is all Goodness and Love.
First Sunday of Lent
Lent is a season of resistance. Resistance to the evil that can turn us away from the way Jesus lived and asks us to follow.
Ash Wednesday reflection
We as individuals are wounded and corrupted by racism, sexism, xenophobia and homophobia. We have no room to condemn others or to boast about how far we have come.
Palm Sunday reflection
We need only see ourselves in the struggles of the Apostles to realize how difficult it is to see the reality of racism “in a different way.”
Lent’s 4th week, reflection
God never grows weary - “Oh Sons and Daughters of Zion” to love us and forgive us of our sins. We 'inch along,' in the words of Negro Spirituals. We inch along, inch by inch, sinning and repenting. Christ forgives us, and he rejoices in our repentance. He never tires of us his beloved children.
Lent’s 3rd week, reflection
Racism hurts all of us, brown, black and white. We all part of the same family and we need to hold each other accountable to use the gifts we are given for the good of all. Only with trust in God’s will can racism be stopped, it must start with us.