Taking women seriously as students, staff and faculty means that the Jesuit institution considers them as essential to its mission.

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.

Human beings matter to our common life regardless of whether they are seen as independent and productive members of society.

There is a long way to go before women’s voices are satisfactorily integrated into the central leadership of the church.