One of the more intriguing questions Pope Francis prompted earlier this year when he announced that a Vatican commission would study whether the early church had women deacons was: How would Catholics react to women preaching?

Mary is known most as “mother,” while many women today are single longer or single mothers.

Apart from restricting life choices among young Catholics, debt also creates new relationship structures within their families based on guilt and co-dependence rather than on love.

A new website called Catholic Women Preach will publish videos of women breaking open Scripture.

The statement was signed by more than 70 women active in various Catholic ministries.

Jennifer Fulwiler is a lay Catholic writer, speaker and host of a daily radio show on SiriusXM's "The Catholic Channel."