Mary Gordon's 'Circling My Mother,' reviewed
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
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Catholic Writing & Catholic Reading
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
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His Dark Materials, Indeed: Is ‘The Golden Compass’ anti-Catholic?
‘The Golden Compass,’ reviewed
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Some Thoughts On “The Golden Compass”
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
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The Surprise Child: The third in a series for Advent and Christmas
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
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Matt Malone on Mitt Romney and Politics and Faith
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
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Prince Caspian
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
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Feast of St. Francis Xavier, S.J.
Just in time for his feast day Xavier Missionary and Saint an hourlong documentary written directed and produced by Jesuit scholastics Jeff Johnson S J and Jeremy Zipple S J will show around the country on PBS starting this week and continuing throughout December You can check the Web
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Cleverly Malicious Exercises
My students at Fordham University and I have been reading Mary Gordon s Final Payments as one of the texts in our class on American Catholic novels and the following scene from Gordon s first novel caught my eye To give a bit of context this scene depicts a daughter who cared for her recen
