The students enrolled in the Project Management class at the University of Notre Dame are carrying one less heavy book this semester They ll still have to read the usual textbook Project Management in Practice but only after the electronic version has been downloaded to their new iPads The unive
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.
Park51 Controversy Echoes Anti-Catholicism of Another Era
An interesting article from CNS highlights the similarities between the backlash against the building of Park 51 and the prejudice of 19th-century Nativists The controversy over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque a couple of blocks away from ground zero in New York is but the late
The Benedictines’ Casket Controversy
It s nearly impossible to argue that the Benedictine monks of St Joseph Abbey in Louisiana should not be allowed to sell their simple handmade wooden caskets Unless of course you re a funeral director concerned about your own profits According to CNS Louisiana law allows only licensed funera
Catholic School May Relocate to Better Serve the Poor
The neighborhood surrounding the Nativity Mission Center a Jesuit-run middle school on Manhattan s Lower East Side has undergone significant changes over the past few decades Increasing gentrification has resulted in positive changes like fewer worries about prostitutes or neighborhood drug deal
Cost of Papal Visit is Cause for Debate (and Souvenir Sales)
There s been some debate in the U K over who should pay for the upcoming papal visit According to the BBC nbsp The total bill for the invited visit mdash without the cost of police and security mdash is estimated by the Foreign Office to be about pound 15m Of this pound 7m will come from t
Catholic Charities of New Orleans in Need of Funds to Help Fishermen
During my travels to New Orleans this past June I saw first-hand the good work that Catholic Charities of New Orleans is doing to help those affected by the oil spill in the Gulf including Chris Nelhig the fisherman pictured at right Catholic Charities has provided food rent assistance and cou
British Atheist Challenges Pope to Debate
Geoffrey Berg author of The Six Ways of Atheism recently challenged Pope Benedict XVI to a public debate about the existence of God which Berg hopes will take place during Benedict rsquo s upcoming visit to the U K In an open letter to the pope a copy of which also was sent directly to the Vati
Benedict XVI’s New Book for Children
Those who never got around to reading Jesus of Nazareth might have a better chance of getting through Pope Benedict XVI s latest work a children s book The 48-page book is called The Friends of Jesus and is based on texts from the pope s Wednesday general audiences The cover illustration by an It
Wuerl Discusses Women in the Church
From a U S C C B press release WASHINGTON mdash Archbishop Donald W Wuerl of Washington Chairman of the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops USCCB responded to a clarification from the Vatican that raised the attempted ordination of a women to a ldquo mor
