The issue of women priests may be a settled matter, but that doesn’t mean a woman can’t serve the church as a deacon.Celebrating the opening of the archives of her work on women in the diaconate at Loyola University Chicago’s Gannon Center for Women and Leadership, scholar Phyllis Zagano minced no words about the topic that has been her life’s project: “Women as deacons is not a concept for the fu

It’s time for parishes to help battered spouses and their children step out of the shadows and get the assistance they need.Not long ago Juan and Carmen came to see me to register for the baptism of their third child. I had officiated at their wedding 10 years before.

Young people can change the world, this Muslim interfaith organizer says. They just need a chance to share their traditions with each other.

The translators of the new Mass prayers have neglected one cardinal rule: Consider your audience. As the days dwindled before their triumphal entry, the new liturgical changes had not yet risen to even an underwhelming response. “One in being” in the creed pretty much satisfied the mass of still-loyal Catholics, since they neither understood what it meant nor cared enough to Google it.