“Rebel Hearts” is an immensely satisfying experience for the viewer, especially for anyone who has chafed against the church’s powerful male hierarchy, but still yearned for belonging in its fold.

“My hope is that the church can use the immense power of its storytelling to move toward more compassion, more kindness.”

Discovering that a pivotal figure like Esther, who saves her people from death, also happens to be childless, can help us understand that childlessness in Scripture cannot be understood only as a curse.

Even within the United States, the Catholic Church encompasses countless subcultures, which send very different messages to young women about femininity, family life, marriage and careers.

‘The availability of online church is a mixed blessing.’

An open letter to Pope Francis from a woman on the eighth anniversary of his papacy