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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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A Mercy-Filled Lent
A more deliberate approach to sacrifice during this Lenten season
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Come Celebrate “Mercy in the City”: A new book by our managing editor Kerry Weber
You’re Invited!The editors of America invite our readers to join us in conversation and to celebrate the publication of Mercy in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the Thirsty, Visit the Imprisoned, and Keep Your Day Job, by our managing editor Kerry Weber.February 20, 20146:00 p.
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Making Room: Learning to love my neighbor in New York
Managing Editor Kerry Weber on committing to a lifestyle—and lifetime—of mercy.
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Breaking the Glass Slipper
Editor Kerry Weber on empowering girls and young women to write their own stories.
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Rwanda Reimagined
Nearly everything in Rwanda is divided into two parts: before and after the 1994 genocide.
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Remembering Genocide in Kigali
Managing editor Kerry Weber is reporting from Rwanda Oct 21-26 nbsp as part of the Catholic Relief Services Egan Journalism Fellowship Check back for updates at americamagazine orgKigali Rwanda mdash Perhaps one of the most notable characteristics of the Kigali Memorial Centre is its simplici
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Carmen Cervantes on ministry, machismo and meaningful leadership
“When a Hispanic woman wants to be up front, people don’t know how to deal with it.”
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Of Many Things
In this issue America examines some of the personal, political, liturgical and social-justice issues that are most relevant to Catholic women today. We have asked several writers to consider those aspects of faith and church that sustain them, as well as those aspects that challenge. These
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Working at Mercy: Pope Francis calls us to love one another more fully
Before the articles in the national newspapers, before the talk show appearances by our editors, before the debates in the blogosphere, there was the galley. The words that would receive worldwide attention from the media and would mark a milestone in Francis’ papacy first came across my desk