Press Releases
Call to Action Metro NY supports USCCB Pastoral Letter on Racism and applies it to the Chapter Call to Action on Mass incarceration
The letter defines racism as people “… either consciously or unconsciously…holding that his or her own race or ethnicity is superior and therefore judges person of other races or ethnicities as inferior and unworthy of equal regard.” The letter notes that when this conviction or attitude leads “individuals or groups to exclude, ridicule, mistreat or unjustly discriminate against persons on the basis of their race or ethnicity, it is sinful.
CTA Metro NY expresses solidarity with the NYC theater communities forced out of the Connelly Theater
As Catholics called to be church to one another, CTA Metro NY strongly disapproves of the Archdiocese of New York’s overreach and mismanagement of their property known as the Connelly Theater. The Archdiocese’s recent decision to increase scrutiny of theater productions performed at this space is directly responsible for New York Theater Workshop and SheNYC Arts vacating the space and the resignation of the theater’s general manager.
CTA Metro NY Responds to Vatican’s 'Dignitas Infinita': A Call for Compassion, Inclusivity, and the Affirmation of Transgender Rights
The LGBTQ community and our allies are not gripped by a dangerous, death-dealing “gender theory” debunked by scientists. The Vatican actually is, in their insistence that gender identity be limited to these rigid, binary labels we impose on one another as fallible human beings. Transgender Catholics show us that gender identity is a beautiful part of the human experience that each of us personally co-creates with God.
POLICE REFORM
This quote is from the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (2005), no. 398 was incorporated in a letter from Bishop Coakley, Bishop Dorsonville and Bishop Shelton Fabre, Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, United States Catholic Conference of Bishops calling for police reform.