In All Things

Yesterday National Public Radio s show On Point produced by WBUR in Boston arranged a conversation on The Golden Compass with Hanna Rosin the journalist who wrote a terrific piece in The Atlantic Monthly that told the story of the way that the film s producers grappled with the controv

I m not sure what s worse about this story Nun Reads List of Curse Words to Kids That it was listed on MSN com s home page as one of the top stories of the day That so far 86 news organizations have picked it up Or that it caters to the same hoary anti-Catholic stereotypes about women re

Some of you may know that America s former editor Thomas Reese S J is a contributor to On Faith a blog co-sponsored by Newsweek and the Washington Post Well here s Fr Reese on Mitt Romney s speech on religion and politics Governor Mitt Romney s speech shows the importance of havi

The ever prolific Gerald O Collins has reviewed Pope Benedict s encyclical Spe Salvi for America An early preview is now online Here s a taste The pope s message combines a pastor s concern for his people with a scholarly use of the scriptures and an effective appeal to some great v

Here is America editor Matt Malone S J on Mitt Romney s presidential campaign and his attempt to convince voters his Mormon faith should not be an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign Watch it here UPDATE Matt Malone s article on God and Politics is now online

Feminists were made happy on reading two headlines in last Tuesday s New York Times One headline reads Girls Make History by Sweeping Top Honors at a Science Contest The other reports In Iran Group of Mothers Criticizes Nuclear Policy Concerned Iranian women calling themselves M

This is going to be unspeakably cool Narnia fans will know that Prince Caspian is the second book of the Narnia series It occurs chronologically after The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe but in terms of Narnia history is after The Magician s Nephew which institutes Narnian history It

The New Republic has just put out one of their best issues in years It s hard to know which article to recommend first Included in an issue that focuses on the death or dearth of book reviewing on the face of it a topic that would make only authors upset though the mag prove otherwise ar

Kudos to my friend and colleague Bill McGarvey over at BustedHalo for snagging an interview with author Richard Russo I m a big fan of Russo who is one of the funniest writers around Straight Man made me laugh as much as Lucky Jim Well almost as much Perceptive readers of Russo s fic

Just in time for his feast day Xavier Missionary and Saint an hourlong documentary written directed and produced by Jesuit scholastics Jeff Johnson S J and Jeremy Zipple S J will show around the country on PBS starting this week and continuing throughout December You can check the Web