Increasing the visibility of women and tapping the wisdom they offer will surely encourage laypeople around the world. Religious sisters and nuns were ranked more trustworthy than bishops, priests and the Vatican in a recent survey of U.S. Catholics sponsored by America.

To date women haven’t been able to vote—not even the religious superiors who participate as representatives of the world’s 641,000 nuns.

The appointment makes her the highest ranking woman in the Roman Curia.

Mary Haddad, R.S.M., the C.E.O. and president of the Catholic Health Association, agrees that more must be done now to halt the advance of the Delta variant.

Sister Percylee Hart, principal of the Olympian's alma mater, has made a habit of encouraging every student to achieve their best.

For many women religious, the Laudato Si’ Action Platform is an opportunity to be creative, writes Kathleen Bonnette, as well as a way to disprove the alarmist idea that their communities are fading into obscurity.