Phyllis Zagano is senior research associate-in-residence and adjunct professor of religion at Hofstra University. She is author of Women & Catholicism: Gender, Communion, and Authority (Macmillan, 2011), Women in Ministry: Emerging Questions about the Diaconate (Paulist Press, 2012), and Women Deacons: Past, Present, Future, with Gary Macy and William T. Ditewig (Paulist Press, 2012). Her column “Just Catholic” appears online in the National Catholic Reporter.
