How can the church unite clarity of teaching with pastoral closeness to people in their struggles?

A Reflection for Saturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Christopher Robles

Men's college basketball's finest squad did not come from one of the N.C.A.A. powerhouses of the past three decades, but from the University of San Francisco, where Bill Russell led the team to consecutive national championships in 1955 and 1956.

How did this Wonka, unfazed and insisting that salvation is at hand, become the jaded, suspicious entity we know he will become?

We must all learn to change our mindset regarding our role and participation in ecclesial life if we want to experience a truly synodal church.

'Fiducia Supplicans' does not alter church teaching on marriage, but it does encourage pastors to accompany others on their journeys in new ways that are simpatico with the pastoral vision of Pope Francis.

A Wisconsin judge suspended charges against defrocked Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, accused of sexually assaulting a boy in the 1970s, ruling he is incompetent for trial because of dementia.

“Inside the Vatican” hosts Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell discuss Pope Francis' “State of the World” address and reveal some of his plans for 2024.

Whatever the court decides, Mr. Trump’s brazen refusal to accept the will of the voters or constitutional limits on presidential power still needs to be confronted and rejected.

“It has just expanded my worldview and deepened my spirituality," Susan Braddock said of her six years as board chair. ”That doesn’t happen that often in life.”