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In conjunction with the party conventions this week and next Matt Malone S J is discussing E J Dionne s Souled Out Reclaimign Faith amp Politics After the Religious Right with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend the former lieutenant governor of Maryland and author of Failing America s Faithful

Hope you ll enjoy America s first foray into video blogging Fr Jim Martin talks about how to incorporate prayer into your daily life nbsp Tim Reidy

Why has The Dark Knight Christopher Nolan s latest addition to the Batman franchise been so phenomenally successful In a review of the film for America two theology students propose that the film s religious imagery is what most resonates most viewers Here is Margaret Stahl a student at

Regular readers of America on the Web may have already encountered the lively discussion of Sister Camille D Arienzo s article Mercy Toward Our Fathers in which she argues that granting forgiveness can bring much-needed healing to victims of sexual abuse A number of sexual abuse victims have

Hear Fr Jim Martin on the newly approved translation of the English Mass Fr Jim s commentary aired Monday on NPR Listen to it here Tim Reidy nbsp

Much has already been said about the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae but this piece is a must-read from one of the giants of moral theology In quot Humanae Vitae 25 years Later quot Richard McCormick S J looked at the quot uneasy silence quot that followed the release of the encylical an

I haven rsquo t read the novels of E M Forster Like many people I suspect I saw the films but skipped the books Still I was taken in by Zadie Smith rsquo s review of ldquo The BBC Talks of E M Forster 1929-1960 rdquo in the New York Review of Books Forster like T S Eliot was the ho

Growing up summer TV seemed like an endless stretch of reruns and four-hour baseball games Twenty-odd years later I rsquo ve grown to appreciate those long baseball games and thanks to Netflix and TIVO I rsquo ll never have to watch a rerun again I rsquo m also happy to report that summer TV