1992: Ruth Fitzpatrick leads a trip to the Czech Republic to find Ludmila Javorova, one of the women ordained a priest in the underground Catholic Church of Communist Czechoslovakia. 1994 ...

approved by 368 delegates after three years of discussion "at every level of the Catholic Church," laid out a "vision for structural reform" that would give "lay leaders, especially women," a ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion ... ‘Blest are you among women and blest is the fruit of your womb. But who am I that the mother of my Lord should come to ...

Until the 1930s, the Catholic Church was not alone in ... the Vatican might bend on birth control. Since 1957, Church law had allowed women with "irregular" cycles to take the Pill to regularize ...

His love for women nevertheless urged him to find common ground. A master of language, he deftly redefined terms like Marx’s “alienation” for his anticommunist purposes. His use of the word ...