What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.

Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.