This issue of America presents the findings of the most comprehensive survey of U.S. Catholic women ever conducted.

The whole array of potential threats to life and human dignity is interrelated.

For Christians, the ministry of social communications does not exist for the sake of mere speech but for the one who is himself the Word.

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

What we see and how we see it largely depends on where we are standing. A shared sense of history, of what was, or might’ve been, or could be again, is the indispensable touchstone of our collective judgement, for memory is the soul of conscience.

I know this is generally not O.K. to do, writing a whole article about joining the Jesuits.