Many people who oppose the idea of women as deacons fear that the potential candidates aren’t faithful Catholics. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Too often the pro-life movement has been tempted into the pursuit of political power and domination over pro-choice opponents. But women worried about their rights are not the enemy.

Abortion is being promoted as a workaround for the far messier and more urgent task of building an economy that is not mired in sexism. It is not a real choice for those in poverty.

I feel qualified to tell everyone who has not attempted to nurse an infant to shut it.

In “The Agitators,” Dorothy Wickenden explores 19th-century intersections of class, racism and patriarchy through the lives of the escaped slave Harriet Tubman and the activists Martha Wright and Frances Seward.

This week on “Jesuitical,” hosts Ashley and Zac talk to the authors of a new report on maternity leave in the U.S. Catholic Church and react to the leaked Supreme Court opinion that could spell the end of Roe v. Wade.