RE/GENERATION

Bringing together young Catholic visionaries & changemakers.

About Re/Generation

Now in its seventh year, Call To Action's Re/Generation Program calls young leaders animated by liberatory, life-giving faith to reckon with the injustices of the Catholic institution and incarnate new ways of being Church. Each year, CTA’s Re/Generation Program brings together a cohort of Catholic leaders, change-makers, and visionaries in their 20s and 30s. CTA supports the cohort members as they develop projects and direct-action campaigns that put our faith into action for social justice.  

The Re/Generation Program aims to cultivate young leaders who live in the paradoxes of Catholic identity. Re/Generators gather from North America to support and inspire one another as they share in their faith and build community.

CTA’s Re/Generation alumni network is now over 80 Re/Generators strong and continues to grow.

Image from Jessica Lemes de la Silva’s Re/Generation project, a Queer-focused podcast.

Re/Gen 2024-2025

Our 2024-2025 Re/Generation Program will convene a cohort of 10 to 12 Re/Generators and pair them with an elder in the movement and a Re/Generation alumnus to form a Mentoring Triad. Re/Generators will discern how their Catholic faith moves them to work for justice, healing, and transformation through two retreats and monthly meetings with their cohort and Mentoring Triads. This year's cohort will receive support and mentorship in developing one of the following:

  • facilitate an event or organize a direct action in your parish, community, or college campus, OR

  • produce a creative advocacy project, such as an editorial or article, or a digital media package (graphics or a short video)

The 2024-2025 cohort is limited to 10-12 participants.

For more information, check out our FAQs below.

FAQs

  • Call To Action younger adults are college students, young professionals, parents, vowed religious, married and single folks, LGBTQIA+ and straight. We’re in our 20s and 30s. Our Catholic practice varies, too: some of us go to Mass, others to intentional Eucharistic communities, house churches, or other alternative liturgies – or none of the above.

    Our common bond is our desire for joyful, inclusive Catholic spaces where all are welcome at the table – feminists, LGBTQ people, people of color, those who follow their consciences, and others who have too often felt marginalized in mainstream Catholic life.

  • Re/Generators recognize that our faith is the source of holy, unique, and revolutionary potential for personal and common good. They also acknowledge that our church is responsible for historical and ongoing injustice, particularly toward LGBTQ people, people of color, women, and lay people throughout the world. Digging into this paradox, Re/Generators find fertile soil for decomposing oppressive structures and cultivating the church we are called to be for our hurting world. Re/Generators locate themselves in a broader movement for church reform, joining in the historic work of CTA and honoring the wisdom of many generations through mutual mentoring with elders.

  • The Re/Generation Program is reserved for Catholics between the ages of 21 and 39.

  • The 2024-2025 Re/Generation Program will run between June 2024 and February/March 2025. Re/Generators will be required to attend an in-person retreat in June and a closing retreat in either February or March. Re/Generators also meet monthly as a cohort and in one-on-one sessions with their mentors. Re/Generators will be expected to participate at the in-person retreats an monthly cohort meetings.

  • We welcome project ideas related to Call To Action's history of supporting ordination justice, LGBTQ+ and gender equality, and anti-racist initiatives. For this year's cohort, we are particularly interested in projects related to reproductive justice; Indigenous / anti-colonial organizing and reconciliation; immigration and refugee initiatives; and antiwar and peace initiatives. We also welcome bilingual projects or projects that uplift Latino/a, Black Catholic, and Asian-American Catholic communities.