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The Church's antiquated views on gender is hindering its ministry.

"It was so lovely I had to cry / 'Look at the moon!' as if you or I / might never see one again."

"You play the part of a human bandage / On a body that will not stop bleeding."

"Lost in eloquence, Cicero forgot / to hike up his toga, letting it / trail in the muck."

"Through the turnstile, / uptown or down, // past the bench / where life // sleeps"

The editors read nonfiction about the work ethic, a memoir about the body, and a novel from a poet.

A symposium on women's ordination asks: In what ways are women excluded from and undervalued in the life of the Church?

Readers discuss the U.S. embargo of Cuba, debate Israel and "just war," and the meaning of Catholic art.

The summit organizers stated that the initiative needed to facilitate a space that would allow for the formation of alliances across institutions and ideological boundaries.