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A movement of the spirit.


Some of the goals of VOTF:

• Giving the laity a voice
• Calling for full accountability in our church
• Strengthening the arm of justice
• Helping restore integrity, transparency, and good judgment to our church.
• To return our priests, the laity and church leadership to the work we are called to do establishing the Kingdom of God on earth.

TASSC is looking for voices against torture. Many victims and survivors find themselves voiceless in a world that often claims ignorance of their situation. The TASSC web site provides each of us an opportunity to add our voice calling for an end to torture. On the web site you will find articles, a bookstore, commentary and events including the upcoming Annual UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims and Survivors on June 26.

We are once again witnessing genocide in Africa. Please visit www.AfricaAction.org. They have a sample letter which you can edit and email to President Bush.

Please know that a local group is planning an event April 2-3.

The Interview With God is a website of a hauntingly beautiful video, accompanied by music, in which a child of God shares a dream of God's responses to questions that resonate deeply in the heart.

To activate the video click the "view presentation" icon

Ephphatha! Be Opened!

Cultureofconversation.org is a web site created by leaders of diverse organizations who are calling for a culture of conversation to transform the culture of silence that prevails in our Church.

Submitted by Theresa Orlando

The Quixote Center was founded in 1976 in Hyattsville, Maryland. Their projects have included equality for women and men in church and civil society, spirituality, ministry for lesbian and gay people, and church reform.

A website for the spiritual path known as The Course In Miracles has recently been developed. "The Course" is a spiritual path devoted to the teachings of Jesus through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit focusing on love and forgiveness.
Submitted by Rose Marie Hogan

NETWORK is a lobby and education organization that operates a web site operated by Catholics and organized around economic and social justice using Catholic social teaching.

The site offers links to legislators and an on-line publication called NETWORK Connection. The group was founded in 1971 by 47 Catholic sisters and they have their offices in Washington, DC.