Today on quot America This Week quot on The Catholic Channel on SiriusXM we will count down the top ten stories in the church and the world for 2014 Here is our complete list Did we miss anything What 39 s your top story of the year Join the discussion in the comments boxes below nbsp 10

It was Christmas for demographers last week, as the U.S. Census Bureau released new data.

'Kinship Across Borders,' by Kristin E. Heyer

The year 2014 was an awful one for Washington, with too little leadership from the president and too much obstruction from Congress. I find liturgical litanies comforting, but 2014’s litany of Washington woes was demoralizing. The year was a roll call of crises, anger and sadness: Ferguson, &l

Preparation for the October 2015 Synod on the Family may help the U.S. church face pressing problems.The church faces a challenge of disunity, some of it from polarization. Threats to unity have crept into the church from adversarial politics that permeate cultural warfare and political skirmishes r

Administration action on immigration is only a first step in long road to comprehensive reform.

Breakthrough is low hanging fruit for first Latin American pope

Catholics have never held the kind of political capital in the U.S. that they hold now.

Citing a lack of funding, the World Food Program announced on Dec. 1 that it was suspending food vouchers for more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees, a move its president called “disastrous for many already suffering families.” • The final report of a Vatican-ordered study of co

When President Obama spoke to the nation of Nov 20 making his case for taking executive action on immigration he turned to Scripture ldquo we shall not oppress a stranger for we know the heart of a stranger We were strangers once too rdquo Even those with little familiarity with the Bible