It’s award season in Hollywood, and although the staff here at America won’t be heading to the Kodak Theater, we do have an honor of our own to celebrate: America has been nominated for a Readers’ Choice Award for Best Catholic Magazine over at About.com’s Catholicism page! We’re grateful for your support! And, hey, if you feel like continuing that support in the form of a vote (or two), feel free to do so here. If we win, we plan to keep our acceptance speech short and hold a rockin’ after-party, Catholic style. i.e. Coffee and donuts for everyone. 

Update: FYI, voters do not have to register on the site or fill out any kind of personal information before casting a ballot.

Kerry Weber joined the staff of America in October 2009. Her writing and multimedia work have since earned several awards from the Catholic Press Association, and in 2013 she reported from Rwanda as a recipient of Catholic Relief Services' Egan Journalism Fellowship. Kerry is the author of Mercy in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the Thirsty, Visit the Imprisoned, and Keep Your Day Job (Loyola Press) and Keeping the Faith: Prayers for College Students (Twenty-Third Publications). A graduate of Providence College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she has previously worked as an editor for Catholic Digest, a local reporter, a diocesan television producer, and as a special-education teacher on the Navajo reservation in Arizona.