"Limiting the diaconate and priesthood to men is painful for many women in the church," Jesuit Fr. Tom Reese writes, "but if we cannot ordain women as deacons, there is no reason we have to ordain men." 
 

During an Aug. 21 panel sponsored by Catholics Vote Common Good, Catholics at the Democratic National Convention discussed both the party's pro-choice platform and the values that prompt them to vote Democratic.

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, dicastery prefect, authorized the local archbishop to issue a document so that the Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows of Chandavila can "continue to offer to the faithful who wish to approach it, a place of interior peace, consolation, and conversion." The cardinal's letter titled, "A Light in Spain," was approved by the pope during an audience Aug. 22 and was published on the dicastery's website Aug. 23.