We love being able to claim we’re solely responsible for our successes. But today’s readings remind us that none of us get to where we are on our own, nor should we want to.
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.
Posted inFaith, Lent Reflections
Reflection: It might be cliché, but Jesus really is there with us for good times and bad. Let’s embrace it.
It’s a cliché but these two miracles say it well: Jesus is there for us in good times and bad. Jesus celebrates with us; Jesus heals us when we are broken.
Posted inFaith, Politics & Society
Springfield’s new bishop on the attacks on the Capitol, healing and transparency in the church
“The role of prayer and prudential judgment on behalf of all Catholics, but also especially, in a particular way, the shepherds of the church is so important.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
In ‘The Crown,’ the royal family is miserable. What would St. Ignatius say about duty, freedom and the monarchy?
James Martin, S.J., and Kerry Weber on ‘The Crown’: What does it mean to uphold one’s duty? What does it mean to be free?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
So you’re about to watch a livestream Mass with a toddler
I commend you. I sympathize. I need your advice.
Posted inAdvent Reflections, Faith
God wants us to understand Jesus’ (and our own) family history
A Reflection for the Third Thursday of Advent
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A Coronavirus Prayer for this Weary Winter
As we walk through this time of darkness, give us faith that we are headed toward brighter days.
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Remembering George Anderson: a Jesuit for and with the poor
George M. Anderson, S.J., who died on Aug. 4 at age 86, was for many years the conscience of America magazine, especially in his focus on and commitment to the poor.
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Social distancing and the sacraments: How the coronavirus pandemic has changed our sense of communion
What that community looks like these days has changed, most notably in the inability to gather to celebrate the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
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The hope and uncertainty of being pregnant during the coronavirus pandemic
These days, the only thing I am certain about is that because of the pandemic everything has changed and will continue to change in ways I can’t yet know.