Catholic Church and women

Francis, the comic strip: "People have no influence if they have no say," Leo says. "It's not fair."

Album review: In Halsey's latest album, the alternative electro-pop artist reflects on becoming a new parent and grapples with experiences that go along with pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood. For Catholics especially, much of the album will feel familiar.

Commentary: Pope Francis' encyclical Fratelli Tutti was a call to 'dream together' — while not addressing the ways the church perpetuates inequality. Now, a year later, we need to put solidarity into action.

Francis, the comic strip: Some comparisons are embarrassing.

Mary McAleese expressed reservations about Pope Francis' leadership of the Catholic Church, telling a British church reform movement that he is "a conservative leader" blessed with enemies who make him look more liberal than he is.

Lexington Bishop John Stowe and fired Catholic educator Margie Winters were among speakers at the June 3-5 College Theology Society meeting, which focused on the theme "The Human in a Dehumanizing World."

Commentary: This global synodal process is not only ambitious, it is also risky because of its different phases — local, national/continental and central — that will highlight the radical differences in local churches.

For the second consecutive year, a nationwide "Preacher's Day" in Germany pushes for Catholic women to be allowed to give homilies during Mass.