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Editorial director Karen Sue Smith reflects on the importance of slowing down during the Christmas season Tim Reidy

Fr Peter Schineller associate editor at America draws on the wisdom of Mesier Eckhart Origen and St Francis in this reflection for the fourth week of Advent

Former Fordham president, associate editor at America and longtime friend and colleague of Avery Cardinal Dulles, delivered the homily at the Mass of the Holy Eucharist in honor of the late cardinal.

For those culture vultures out there America has just posted two Web-only items of note The first is a review of the film Doubt by Michael V Tueth S J a professor of communications at Fordham University and a frequent contributor to our pages Doubt of course is based on the Tony-award win

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair sat down with religion reporters in New Haven on Thurday before his final class on Faith and Globalization at Yale University and the America Magazine Podcast was in attendance Click here to listen And if you haven t already subscribed to our podcast

Drew Christiansen S J America s editor in chief has written a special commentary on the Vatican s new instruction on bioethics Dignitas Personae Among the topics taken up in the instruction are in vitro fertilization cloning and stem cell research You can read it here The full text of D

Just a reminder that we are posting weekly Advent reflections over at The Good Word and on our YouTube page nbsp Here is Associate Editor Matt Malone S J on a song that always reminds him of the Advent season

In our third Advent video reflection Fr Jim Martin considers the virtues of of St Joseph

Associate Editor Matt Malone S J explains why a song from West Side Story always reminds him of Advent Tim Reidy