• Visit BishopAccountability.org

Endorses no particular analysis of the root causes of the sex abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, and does not advocate for specific reforms. Provides extensive archives on sexual abuse by clergy.

• Visit Call to Action

Call to Action (CTA) is a Catholic movement working for equality and justice in the Church and society. An independent national organization of over 25,000 people and 53 local chapters, CTA believes that the Spirit of God is at work in the whole church, not just in its appointed leaders. The entire Catholic Church has the obligation of responding to the needs of the world and taking initiative in programs of peace and justice.

• Visit Catholic Church's Role in the Jewish Holocaust

Catholics who are unaware of their church's role in some of the worst atrocities in history are looking in the wrong place if they expect help in promoting social justice from a church that can't even bring itself to confess that role in the Jewish Holocaust, not to mention the American Holocaust.

• Visit Catholic Worker Roundtable

The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person.

Today over 185 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and foresaken. Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms.

Explore the life and writings of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin as well as sample contemporary Catholic Worker thought and action.

• Visit Catholics for a Free Choice

Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) was founded in 1973 to serve as a voice for Catholics who believe that the Catholic tradition supports a woman’s moral and legal right to follow her conscience in matters of sexuality and reproductive health.

• Visit Center of Concern

Visit the Center of Concern website

• Visit Dignity USA

DignityUSA works for respect and justice for all gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons in the Catholic Church and the world through education, advocacy and support.

• Visit FutureChurch

FutureChurch is a national coalition of parish-centered Catholics who seek the full participation of all baptized Catholics in the life of the Church.

FutureChurch, inspired by Vatican II, recognizes that Eucharistic Celebration (the Mass) is the core of Roman Catholic worship and sacramental life. We advocate that this celebration be available universally and at least weekly to all baptized Catholics.

• Visit Interfaith Voices Radio

Interfaith Voices is an independent public radio show providing engaging and informative discussion on the key public issues of our day through the lenses of many different faith perspectives. We foster religious tolerance and educate our listeners on the broad diversity of religious traditions and viewpoints in the United States, Canada, and around the world. Our purpose is to promote interfaith understanding through dialogue.

• Visit Internet Library on Women's Ordination

womenpriests.org is the largest international website on
women and sacred ministry. We are Roman Catholic theologians who firmly believe that the discussion on women priests should be left open.

We love our family, the Catholic Church. We fully accept the authority of the Pope. We respect his personal integrity as an outstanding spiritual leader. But we are convinced that the Pope and his advisors in Rome are making a serious mistake by dismissing women as priests. We feel obliged in conscience to make our carefully considered reasons known.

• Visit National Catholic Reporter

National Catholic Reporter is an independent newsweekly that is frequently the first to report on serious issues important to thinking Catholics and the first place to find open, honest and ongoing discussion of those issues. NCR makes a commitment to in-depth reporting of global peace and justice issues and consistently wins national and international awards for "Best Investigative Reporting" and "General Excellence" from the Catholic Press Association.

• Visit Peacemaker Project T-Shirts

The Peacemaker Project communicates GOD's Agape love for all humanity, especially for the poor and the marginalized. T-shirts in English and Spanish depict a delightful Baby Jesus standing up for the principle of love over hatred.

• Visit Roman Catholic Women Priests

The goal of the group "RC Womenpriests" (Roman Catholic Womenpriests) is to bring about the full equality of women in the Roman Catholic Church. At the same time we are striving for a new model of Priestly Ministry.

The movement "RC Womenpriests" does not perceive itself as a counter-current movement against the Roman Catholic Church. It wants neither a schism nor a break from the Roman Catholic Church, but rather wants to work positively within the Church.

• Visit Salt Magazine

Salt of the Earth — your online resource for social justice — is a monthly online magazine published by the Claretians.

• Visit San Francisco Bay Catholic

Every serious issue within the Catholic Church has two sides.

San Francisco Bay Catholic attempts to provide arguments on both sides of the important Issues facing Roman Catholicism today.

We bring you Catholic articles - by Catholics, allowing and encouraging you to make up your own mind. This site will present links and articles which both support and disagree with the Magisterium. We strongly feel that it is important for Catholics to understand what the official positions are as well as the current Catholic theological traditions opposed to those positions.

• Visit SNAP, Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests

Provides resources for self-help to victims of sexual abuse by clergy, educates the general public about the impacts of sexual abuse, and advocates for prevention of sexual abuse.

• Visit The Healing Alliance

By linking the resources of key recovery organizations and those committed to healing, The Healing Alliance offers positive options to those whose lives have been damaged by abuse.

The Healing Alliance found its beginnings though victims of clergy abuse — joined in mutual support through The Linkup. Since awareness of the clergy abuse has risen to the forefront of the national conscience, many more victims of abuse have stepped forward to acknowledge and address the pain within their own lives.

• Visit Voice of the Faithful

A campaign to ensure financial accountability in the church and to reform sexual abuse laws for the protection of children.

• Visit Women's Justice Coalition

Women's Justice Coalition is a group of organizations working for reform and renewal within the Roman Catholic Church in a variety of ways. Catholics Speak Out, a program of the Quixote Center, coordinates the coalition.

WJC sponsors an annual action project to help move the cause of women's equality forward. Our goal is to build a broad grassroots movement to demonstrate that large numbers of Catholics support equality and justice for women.

We say the time has come:

— To affirm the equal rights of women and men in the church,

• Visit Women's Ordination Conference

Women's Ordination Conference (WOC) is the world's oldest and largest national organization working solely for women to be ordained as deacons, priests and bishops into a renewing priestly ministry in the Catholic Church. To this end, WOC works to:

† Bring about justice and equality for women in our church
† Eliminate all forms of domination and oppression against women
† Create inclusive and accountable church structures
† Support and affirm women's talents, gifts and calls to ministry