Pope Francis, newly 81, will begin 2018 with a focus on Mary and on migrants and refugees.

U.S. agriculture is facing a silent crisis.

“So many other footsteps are hidden in the footsteps of Joseph and Mary,” Pope Francis said. “We see the tracks of entire families forced to set out in our own day.”

Despite the looming threat of deportation, Mirna continues to look ahead.

“Gangs of New York” reminds us that for as long as the United States has been a nation of immigrants, it has been infected by xenophobia.

More than 22,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children are already subject to deportation, and Congress seems no closer to finding a solution.