An anthology of documents that includes official church teaching on women in the family, the world, and the church.

Four hundred of the 3,800 people who permanently live or work in the State of Vatican City, the smallest sovereign and independent state on the globe, are women

The historical record does not show (until now) that there were Vatican Council Mothers as well as Fathers--23 of them, in fact, and their contributions were en

Summoning everyday Catholic laywomen to the forefront of twentieth-century Catholic history, Mary J. Henold considers how these committed parishioners experienc

Eleanor Herman, the talented author of the New York Times bestselling Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen goes behind the sacred doors of the Catholic Church