Anyone know of any progressive Catholic websites?

Or how about a Catholic board where there are a lot of progressives present? I've been having a hard time finding one. Thanks in advance.

What the rest of the world watched on Inauguration Day

by Joan Chittister, OSB

Dublin, on U.S. Inauguration Day, didn't seem to notice. Oh, they played a few clips that night of the American president saying, "The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands."

But that was not their lead story.



The picture on the front page of The Irish Times was a large four-color picture of a small Iraqi girl. Her little body was a coil of steel. She sat knees up, cowering, screaming madly into the dark night. Her white clothes and spread hands and small tight face were blood-spattered. The blood was the blood of her father and mother, shot through the car window in Tal Afar by American soldiers while she sat beside her parents in the car, her four brothers and sisters in the back seat.

A series of pictures of the incident played on the inside page, as well. A 12-year-old brother, wounded in the fray, falls face down out of the car when the car door opens, the pictures show. In another, a soldier decked out in battle gear, holds a large automatic weapon on the four children, all potential enemies, all possible suicide bombers, apparently, as they cling traumatized to one another in the back seat and the child on the ground goes on screaming in her parent's blood.

Continued @ http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/fwis/fw012705.htm

I couldn't even begin to imagine what that little girl went through. Watching your parents being murdered right in front of you. Yep another heart and mind won for the Americans

Try Sojourners: http://www.sojo.net/

This site is run by a guy at the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House in Oklahoma City:

http://www.justpeace.org/

He starts off the page with:

"WARNING: The study, practice, and spirituality of Catholic social justice teachings may be hazardous to your hard-heartedness, complacency, skepticism, indifference, and hubris. Proceed at your own risk!

Those who shut their ears to the cry of the poor will themselves also call and not be heard. Proverbs 21:13 |

You are the God of the lowly, the helper of the oppressed, the supporter of the weak, the protector of the forsaken, the savior of those without hope. Judith 9:11"


Nice, isn''t it? :-)

He has tons of links about social justice, sustainable living, spirituality, community organizing, etc.

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This is a great resource, not sure if they're updating it regularly now or not but there's much to see, many links. They have a forum but no one is posting there since the election; maybe it will start up again, especially is some people just go there and post!

http://votingcatholic.org/index.php

:hi:

www.tcpc.org

They have message boards.

http://www.catholicsfordemocracy.org/
http://www.democratsforlife.org/ pro-life
http://www.rcrc.org/index.htm pro-choice
http://www.cath4choice.org/ pro-choice
http://liberalslikechrist.org/index.htm
http://prolife.liberals.com/ pro-life

www.catholicsfordemocracy.org