Better sexual education can help uphold the dignity of women’s embodied existence and diminish damaging stigmas.

I would not want to replace the reverence of the Mass with the endorphin-fueled exhilaration of a contra dance. But I do want us to find ways to extend an enthusiastic welcome to all who walk through our doors.

We have been told we are too gay or too female or too mentally ill or too divorced to serve in the church.