The night before my sister’s wedding five summers ago, my family and our new in-laws gathered for dinner at an Italian restaurant in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Because mine is a big family—I am the sixth of eight children, and my siblings have among them 14 offspring—we chose this

To accompany America editor Tim Reidy s profile of Brooklyn-based painter Alfonse Borysewicz America is also offering an online slide show in which Borysewicz comments on his own religious art Finding new ways to present the Gospel story may be a rare artistic endeavor today Reidy comments

America has a new online article by Jesuit scholastic Sean Dempsey S J who was recently ordained a deacon and will be ordained a Catholic priest this coming June Dempsey is a pop-culture aficionado extraordinaire a vocation not often found among religious but crucial in my opinion for evang

Mary Gordon's 'Circling My Mother,' reviewed

As I ve been preparing for a new semester of teaching at Fordham a course on Catholic novels I ve been rereading Flannery O Connor s brilliant essay collection Mystery and Manners One of the essays included in that volume edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald was originally published

'The Golden Compass,' reviewed

The America review of the controversial movie The Golden Compass is now out and can be found here The review focuses both on Phillip Pullman s novels and on the film which opened strongly but suffered an enormous drop in per-screen viewers after its first week Was its failure due to a

For many Christians it has perhaps become commonplace to view Advent as a season of inevitability, a ritual expectation of the birth of the Son of God, surely, but one that lacks suspense. We already know how the story will turn out, dont we? The Holy Family will make it to Bethlehem; they will find

Here is America editor Matt Malone S J on Mitt Romney s presidential campaign and his attempt to convince voters his Mormon faith should not be an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign Watch it here UPDATE Matt Malone s article on God and Politics is now online

This is going to be unspeakably cool Narnia fans will know that Prince Caspian is the second book of the Narnia series It occurs chronologically after The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe but in terms of Narnia history is after The Magician s Nephew which institutes Narnian history It