A graduate of Regis Jesuit High School in Denver interviews her former theology teacher on her experiences in and out of the classroom.

My parents instilled in me the lesson that no matter what life threw at me, God would always be there to guide me.

My vocation is about a far deeper encounter than a TV show about food can offer, and years later I discovered one of the most profound manifestations of this among children before the Bread of Life himself.

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

While at the surface the question about women’s ordination has been asked and answered, rarely has it been asked in this new context where women’s full human dignity is unreservedly affirmed and defended.

More pressing than the question of whether women can be ordained to the priesthood is the reality that clericalism and sexism have created and sustained a system in which women are treated as second-class citizens.