“Even if you leave the ordination question aside for a moment, there is still a great need to explore ways of engaging women in all other levels of the life of the church in significant roles. There is still a lot of work to be done.”

"A society that erases women from public life is a society that becomes impoverished," he said.

A Reflection for Monday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Molly Cahill

A Reflection for Saturday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke

In their first private one-on-one conversation, the president of the Australian Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, S.D.B., told Pope Francis, “The church in Australia is alive!”