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.’

Bob Dylan, more than anyone, fused the pop cultural and the religious experience into one.

Octavia Butler, the Black science fiction writer who died in 2006, did not just create imaginary worlds with parallels to ours. Sometimes she created worlds that are eerily a little too much like our own.