Perspectives

Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.

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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.

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10 Reasons I believe in the Sacrament of Marriage

I love ritual. It unites us with the cloud of witnesses that have made these same promises before us and all that will in the future.

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We are Pride!!!

We are pride! All of us without exception IS fabulous, fierce, glitterful, amazing, unicornlicious…

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Staying Active in the Holy Spirit

How do we face spiritual stagnation head on?

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The Story of Resurrection is a Story of Transition

The Resurrection is a transition—a transition that will never end as living into our being-ness is a never-ending transition. One does not complete transition, one does not finish resurrecting—both are ongoing adventures of struggle and resilience, of ups and downs, of tears of pain and tears of celebration

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The Seven Last Words of Christ: Singing the Passion

Jesus's response reminds us that God's justice is not our justice and that God's mercy is tremendous.

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Gone is the Light

Gone is the Light/From which to guide us./The earth sits still/Breathing, waiting.

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"We like it here"

Those who have left the church or who are proud of their own faith tradition will see the "cold and miserable weather" that we've gone through as Catholics (the sexual abuse scandal, bishops and Cardinals getting in the news for being unwilling to welcome LGBTQ Catholics, etc.) and ask us, "why stay Catholic?" And the best answer I can give them is that "we like it here."