What were your favorite films this year?

Stricter laws and quicker removals of criminal foreigners cannot replace a societal debate.

America editors offer their hot takes on President Obama's final State of the Union address.

Throwing more federal money at cancer research does not in any way guarantee cures will materialize sooner rather than later.

Donald Trump was the unnamed topic of the night.

Janet E. Smith: "Those who contracept are having sex on their terms, not God’s."

"We will always be in favor of truth, of justice, in favor of the victims," Archbishop Escobar said during a Jan. 10 news conference in which he said the files on war crimes investigated in the 1980s by the church's legal aid office, Tutela Legal, are available for the public and investigators.

The bishops wrote, "Our organizations have first-hand knowledge that these actions have generated fear among immigrants and have made their communities more distrustful of law enforcement and vulnerable to misinformation, exploitation and fraud. We find such targeting of immigrant women and children—most of whom fled violence and persecution in their home countries—to be inhumane and a grave misuse of limited enforcement resources.”

Some considerations as you stand on line for your chance at $1.5 billion

GOP voters find it compassionate to vote against government.

The interview was hardly more than an encounter that shed little light on an important story.

Tune in tonight at 7 p.m. ET for live stream of this conversion featuring America's Matt Malone, S.J., James Martin, S.J., and Kerry Weber.

After many years, I found that I actually had a fondness for Bowie songs, because they made me think of my husband.

Francis has made concern for migrants a centerpiece of his papacy, and on Jan. 11 in his annual address to diplomats accredited to the Holy See he again urged governments to “overcome the inevitable fears associated with this massive and formidable phenomenon.”

Trump could block the path taken by McCain and Romney.

One of the first to note the rocker’s passing was a senior Vatican official, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, head of its Council for Culture, who tweeted the famous lyrics from Bowie’s 1969 classic, “Space Oddity.”

Coming together through a little music can bridge many a difference.

It's an ill wind for the future of the region a key player seems so indifferent to the consequences of its action in sowing sectarian division.

Looking at the potential for negative financial “contagion” effects throughout the region or the world after the recent meltdown and the suspension of trading in the Chinese market.

As we return to Ordinary Time and ordinary lives, God gives us manifold reasons for new years and new hopes.