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The magazine took home several awards from this year’s CPA Convention in New Orleans. Browse the links below to read America's best from 2009.

FIRST PLACE:

Best Web Site

Best Review: Review of "Precious," John Anderson (November 30, 2009)

Best Review Section: Fall Books II (November 2, 2009)

Best Investigative Writing: “Then There Was One,” Daniel P. Sulmasy (March 16, 2009)

THIRD PLACE:

Best Online/Multi-Media Presentation of Visuals: "Birth of a Jazz Mass"

OTHER AWARDS:

Culture Editor James Martin, S.J., won for "Best Coverage of the Year for Priests" for his essay in the journal Catholic Update.

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