It is a Sunday morning in 1992, and I am 10 years old and visiting relatives in the midwest. We head to church, pile into a pew, sit, stand and then sing the entrance hymn at Mass. I happen to look up from my missalette just as two girls who are about my age walk up the aisle; they are wea
Kerry Weber
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.
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Running on Plenty
From the moment “McFarland, USA” begins, you know how it will end.
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Facing Terminal Illness with Mercy
Sister Mary Ann Walsh say her experience of cancer “is like a living wake.”
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In Defense of Altar Girls
It is a Sunday morning in 1992 and I am ten years old and visiting relatives in the midwest We head to church pile into a pew sit stand and then sing the entrance hymn at Mass nbsp I happen to look up from my missalette just as two girls who are about my age walk up the aisle they are wearing
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Laws of Attraction: Love and loss in ‘The Theory of Everything’
The struggle to form and sustain relationships is a universal experience. The struggle to understand the existence of black holes, less so. So it makes sense that The Theory of Everything, a new biopic about Stephen Hawking, the physicist and cosmologist, puts more focus on his love life than on the
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Body-Building
Both saints and celebrities are often reduced to mere ideas or idols, avatars of their flesh and blood bodies.
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A Complicated Grief: Persevering in faith in the midst of suffering
When my cell phone rings early one sunny fall morning, I reach for it groggily, see that the call is from my mother and know that whatever she is about to say will be heartbreaking. I am still in bed in my pajamas, and my mom tells me that Marian Elizabeth has been born. Everything else my mother sa
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Of Many Things
With expanded coverage, ‘America’ aims to draw a fuller image of what church means.
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Why you don’t have to love baseball to love ‘Field of Dreams’
The film is a beautiful reminder of the power of faith in things unseen.
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Shadowed by Tragedy: Rwanda strives to rise above a history of horror
One of the most notable characteristics of the Kigali Memorial Centre is its simplicity: a small fountain; a stone courtyard; some gardens with water fixtures flowing through them. Most striking, perhaps, are the plain, long, brown slabs of brick marking the graves of 250,000 of the men, women and c