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.

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.

As many as 295 people were killed in a series of apparently coordinated raids on some 30 villages in Nigeria’s Plateau State that began on Dec. 23 and continued through Christmas Day.

Reaffirming their fidelity to the pope and the Gospel, Catholic bishops in Africa have released a common response to a recent Vatican declaration, saying they “generally prefer” not to offer blessings to same-sex couples.

“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.”

With “Fiducia Supplicans,” Pope Francis turns the church’s attention to the pastoral needs of same-sex couples. We can chart this development over the past two years.

'Exodus 90' is meant as a spiritual and athletic exercise for men that centers on prayer, fasting and fraternity. It gets some things wrong and some things right. In the process, it reveals some of the failures of the church today.