"I strongly reaffirm the right of persons with disabilities to receive the sacraments, like all other members of the church. All liturgical celebrations in the parish should be accessible to them."

On the Second Sunday of Advent, the Prophet Isaiah reminds us that the church is ordained to be Christ’s hands extended to the poor, the neglected, the excluded.

Biographer Eileen Markey said that the four women were very aware that their work could put them in harm’s way.

Pope Francis' remarks from his general audience on Wednesday, Dec. 2.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell take a look at this year’s pared-down consistory and how Pope Francis has shifted the geography of the College of Cardinals.

The four churchwomen chose to stay and to suffer, as St. Romero had once said, “the same fate as the poor.”