Let’s be real: When it comes to the best films of a given year, the best film is the one you liked best.

Ken Jennings’s “The Gospel of John” is now onstage at New York City’s Sheen Center through Dec. 29.

32 states have now either abolished the death penalty or not carried out an execution in more than a decade

President López Obrador's party and allies control both houses of Mexico's Congress

Many in Tijuana have lived for months at crowded shelters, sleeping on floors, with little access to public health clinics.

This will be the final debate of the year; four more are scheduled for 2020.

The synod on the Amazon has again raised the possibility of women deacons. The New Testament gives us a model and precedent, writes Micah D. Kiel of St. Ambrose University, by the name of Phoebe.

Christmas songs that invoke Jesus’ name or mention the Nativity story are not automatically more respectful than Christmas songs that don’t.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” the hosts explain what information will now be available about these cases.

To help make sense of the Afghanistan Papers, America spoke with Karen J. Greenberg, permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations and director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law.

In the Philippines, the Christmas spirit can be found in a shopping mall chapel.

Wells of Hope also is building homes for those in the community.

Catholic groups involved in climate change advocacy are frustrated over lack of progress in wake of UN climate talks in Spain.

The measure, H.R. 4916, which now goes to the Senate for a vote, would improve conditions for immigrant farmworkers and their families

The Afghanistan Papers suggest that we still have not learned the lessons of history, writes Drew Christiansen, S.J., including a sense of humility and an awareness of human fallibility.

Can poetry matter? Yes. Can the Catholic writer today matter? Of course. But it is instructive that Gioia’s essay and book title does not ask the latter question.

Pope Francis has abolished the pontifical secret for sexual misconduct cases concerning clerics, reports America’s Vatican correspondent Gerard O'Connell, a decision long called for by survivors of abuse.

Each December the university publicly displays around 100 curated sets.

On a podium, a message reads: “What if this family sought refuge in our country today?”

The new show from Damon Lindelof is more than another high concept sci-fi series.