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In an opening with historic import, Pope Francis has said he wants to study the possibility of ordaining women as deacons, a step that could for the first time open the ranks of the Catholic Church’s all-male clergy to women.

When I think of religious misconceptions and the Catholic Church, I legitimately have to stifle a laugh as I think to myself, “Where do I even start?”

And so, as a Catholic, the 2014 Pew study on America’s religious landscape, while interesting and informative in a certain respect, wasn’t terribly troubling to me on the whole.

I can't tell you how frustrated I am with the bishops. And yet they are no worse than me. If I can lose sight of God and fail to see things his way, then I can't fault the bishops for making the same mistake.

Later this month, at the invitation of Philadelphia’s Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, they’ll be traveling to the City of Brotherly Love to speak on a panel at the World Meeting of Families. The annual event will conclude with a visit from Pope Francis.

Immaculate Heart Retreat Center will offer “Barbecue with Bishop Emeritus Skylstad” on Aug. 25. The theme is “The Family in the Modern World: the Challenges and the Opportunities.”

When Pope Francis last year effectively demoted U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke by moving him out of a senior post in the Vatican to a largely ceremonial role as head of a Rome-based Catholic charity, it was viewed as a way to sideline one of the pontiff’s most outspoken critics on the right.