An interview with Cardinal Joseph Tobin on the changing place of women in the church.

I stopped running from the ordination question and started wrestling with it.

My grandmother embodied a distinctly Guadalupan presence: prayerful, patient, joyful and strong. Whether nurturing a child, a friendship or a garden, she knew how to help things grow.

The contributions of women—too often overlooked—speak to what Pope Francis has called the particular “genius of women.”

The appointments are further evidence of Pope Francis’ determination to assign important positions in the Roman Curia to women.

Set in the early ’60s, “Novitiate” is yet another tale of the trauma suffered by the religious and their orders in the wake of the Second Vatican Council.