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Check out TNR today for America blogger Michael Sean Winter s take on the Catholic vote and how it may hurt or help nbsp Barack Obama Barack Obama has a Catholic problem While Catholics constitute only 23 percent of the nation s population their numbers are higher in such critical states a

As some of you may have noticed you can now share America s articles on Facebook and other networking sites Simply click share in the upper right hand corner of an article page and your favorite article from America will appear on your Facebook page The best part if you re a subscriber a

The July 11 edition of Religion amp Ethics Newsweekly included a nice feature on the 150th anniversary of Lourdes Among those interviewed was Fr Jim Martin who has written about his trips to Lourdes in America here and here You can watch the R amp E piece and read the transcript here Tim Rei

Just a reminder that Jennifer Fulwiler author of A Sexual Revolution will be live-blogging about her article on Monday and Tuesday here at In All Things A former pro-choice atheist Jennifer is a Catholic convert and blogs at Et Tu Jennifer will be blogging about her conversion and resp

Congrats to America blogger Michael Sean Winters on the release of his new book Left at the Altar How the Democrats Lost the Catholics and How the Catholics Can Save the Democrats George Stephanopoulos hosted a book part for Michael last night at his Georgetown home and the Washington Post was th

We re pleased to announce that Austen Ivereigh has joined our roster of bloggers A former deputy editor at The Tablet of London Austen s most recent article for America was about Tony Blair s baptism into the Catholic Church This week Austen offers a British view of the U S race for pres

Readers of the work of literary critic and novelist James Wood will know that he is God-haunted The title of his first novel was after all The Book against God Wood s preoccupation with God specifically the problem of evil is addressed head-on this week s New Yorker in which he cons

The Catholic Press Association announced its annual awards this weekend and America did pretty well OK we did very well please excuse this rare display of pride First and foremost America was named the best magazine in its category winning general excellence honors for our three issues dat