With Crispina and Her Sisters, Christine Schenk, C.S.J., has performed a singular service in making accessible additional sources about early Christian women.

The women who spoke at this year’s Voices of Faith are exemplars of faith and courage.

Wherever you stand on the matter, it's clear that the church teaching on ordination represents a problem for evangelization.

Some dicasteries once led by cardinals are now led by bishops and priests and, thus, pave the way for more participation by laypeople, especially women, in church decisions, said Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa.

“Behind all this is the unfortunate idea...that priests are everything in the church while sisters are nothing.”

Mary McAleese, who has a gay son and has criticized the church’s position on L.G.B.T. issues, was invited to participate in a panel discussion on women in church governance.