The extensive New York Times series in support of legal abortion unfolds as if the last 46 years of the abortion debate following Roe v. Wade never happened and did not need to.

Pope Francis reminds us to get back to basics in a way that is desperately needed.

Its truest purveyors are neither elite nor even much noticed.

The argument tying more legal abortion to the plight of poor women is old.

The "instrumentum laboris," or working document for the coming October Synod on the Family, is a rather overwhelming wish list of pastoral outreach initiatives that the universal church hopes the local church will undertake more fully and better than before. To be sure, its subtitle a

There are huge risks to talking about women, qua women, in the church.

The pope reminds me that I have to query my choices about time and money and the stuff I buy.

It is no small challenge to speak about “the family in America” given family diversity in this country. It is possible, however, to speak generally about the forces acting on families, and some of their effects within households, in light of the coming deliberations at the Synod of Bisho

There's still no consensus about whether child care is a worthy expenditure of women’s time.

It is good for Catholics to cheer on one another’s varied works of charity.