'American Mother,' Diane Foley's and Colum McCann's story of Foley’s life and that of her son, James Foley, is written with a mother’s love, her eventual understanding of hostage situations and her desire for others to understand the struggle she faced.

I was delighted recently to discover that three of my favorite authors, all from extremely different backgrounds and perspectives, have written three extremely different books on aging. Yet even with their differences, they agree on the big points.

America reviewed a range of films over the last year, including many of the awards-show contenders.

One of the nation’s most distinguished sociologists for many years and an expert on the relationship between religion and public life, the Rev. John A. Coleman died on Jan. 17, 2025 in Los Gatos, Calif., at the age of 87.

“Pan’s Labyrinth” embodies the core tension of Catholic life: the push and pull between the eternal and the worldly.

Why is Pansy so angry? That is, in many ways, the raison d’etre of ‘Hard Truths.’