Perspectives

Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.

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"The final word is love."

Each of these readings recognizes in some ways the challenges of the life of faith and invites us to lean on God and one another – faithfully proclaiming with Paul that “love never fails.”

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"A Bruised Reed He Shall not Break"

I don't know what happens next, but it won't be easy. I've learned not to ask why; I still need to learn how to deal with the feeling of powerlessness.

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My journey with Islam as a Catholic woman

My heart and soul – not just my mind – had been touched through my years of engagement with Islam. Something in my internal landscape had changed.

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My Advent in Review

In an effort to “let peace begin with me,” as the famous song says, I’ve been more observant of my own inner peace.

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Mary and Elizabeth

As I was sitting with this story, I realized how much I WISH that this was the Christmas story. That this was the birthing scene that we read together Christmas Eve.

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Embracing La Guadalupana

Through this story and image, I came to know un DIOS with many names, faces, and bodies—a G-d of and in la lucha … un DIOS who is different and unico…who is spicy, colorful, quirky, and transcends gender norms…

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We are the Immaculate Conception

The story of Mary … A woman who transgressed borders. A woman called to be a mother, prophet, apostle, revolutionary…She has been exulted and divinized, yet her humanity has often been forgotten and ignored …It is her story that we will look at today to wrestle and grapple with the church's teaching on the immaculate conception.