You’re Invited!

The editors of America invite our readers to join us in conversation and to celebrate the publication of Mercy in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the Thirsty, Visit the Imprisoned, and Keep Your Day Job, by our managing editor Kerry Weber.

February 20, 2014

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

106 W 56th St.

New York, NY

This event is free and open to the public.

Please RSVP by Feb. 14 to Judy Felix.

e-mail: judy@americamagazine.org

phone: 212-515-0105

Donations of canned goods will be accepted on behalf of the Society of St. Paul the Apostle Church in Manhattan.

Mercy in the City is available at your local bookstore or online.

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.