The New York Times reports on the push for personhood and a new anti-abortion amendment in Mississippi A constitutional amendment facing voters in Mississippi on Nov 8 and similar initiatives brewing in half a dozen other states including Florida and Ohio would declare a fertilized human egg
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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Immaculata’s Miracle: Tim Chambers’s ‘The Mighty Macs’
‘The Mighty Macs’ uses the microcosm of a women’s basketball team to explore the zeitgeist of the 1970s.
Posted inFaith, Film
The Father’s Way: Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez on pilgrimages, family ties and their newest film.
Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez on pilgrimages, families ties and the creation of their newest film.
Posted inIn All Things
ABC Documentary Highlights Struggles of Oglala Sioux Children
Luke Hansen s writing may be known to America readers but his day job mdash as the volunteer coordinator at Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota mdash hasn t been quite so visible However a new special on ABC s 20 20 hopes to shed light on the land and pe
Posted inIn All Things
U.S. Bishops Denied Federal Grant to Help Trafficking Victims
From Carol Zimmermann at Catholic News Service WASHINGTON CNS — Since 2006 the U S Catholic bishops Migration and Refugee Services has helped more than 2 700 victims of human trafficking obtain food clothing and access to medical care That service has come to a halt because the agency re
Posted inIn All Things
Single Catholics, Pets, and the Feast of St. Francis
On this Feast of St Francis Faith Hope and Love the blog of CatholicMatch com offers an interesting look at single Catholic pet owners From a member survey CatholicMatch com learned that 62 percent of single Catholics own a pet and Christina Ries the blog s editor says that this statis
Posted inMusic
Show a Little Faith: My slightly guilty aversion to Christian rock
‘Why the words “Christian rock” make me cringe.’ A confession by Kerry Weber.
Posted inOf Many Things
Of Many Things
Somewhere along the line, I began learning from my younger sister.
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Conference Promotes Dialogue About Voices of Sexual Diversity and the Church
Catholics academics professionals and pastoral workers were among the speakers at a recent Fordham University conference which sought according to the program to ldquo raise awareness and generate informed conversation about sexual diversity issues within the community of faith and in the broad