Editors' Picks
America's Web site now features a range of Web-only content, from podcasts and videos, to television and film reviews and book discussions. Here are some of our favorite selections from the last year.
The editors offer video reflections [3] on the symbols of the Easter season.
Veteran broadcaster and Catholic William F. Baker talks about [4] his long career in public television.
A Byzantine priest recounts [5] his church's transition to a new liturgical translation.
John A. Coleman, S.J., reviews [6] a new documentary on forgiveness.
Musings [7] on Shakespeare, Edmund Campion and "martyrial ecumenism" from Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury.
A closer look at the Vatican art of coin making. View slideshow [8].
A selection [9] of the Jesuit Robert F. Drinan's writings for America.
Michael Paul Gallagher, S.J., introduces [10] the life and writings of Blessed John Henry Newman.
And here are some other worthwhile Web features from past years:
Two eminent moral theologians reflect on [11] the pope's comments on condoms and the transmission of AIDS.
Lisa Fullam, John Coleman and Lisa Sowle Cahill respond [12] to Cathleen Kaveny's article on Catholic citizenship [13].
A podcast discussion [14] with Mark Massa, S.J., about the Catholic '60s.
Parents, scholars and educations discuss [15] the future of Catholic education.
In "Cul-de-Sac Catholicism," [16] Nicholas P. Cafardi asks, why did the U.S. bishops fight health reform to the end? Members of the bishops' conference respond here [17].
A video report [18] on the campaign to restore church art and salvage church archives in wake of the Hurricane Katrina.
A video profile [19] of a Catholic student community at Columbia University.
Fordham University's James T. Fischer tells the story of the Jesuit labor priests who inspired the film "On the Waterfront" in this video. [21]
In the third edition of the America Book Club, a discussion [22] of Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin.
What does Barack Obama have in common with Vatican II? More than you'd think, according to John W. O'Malley S.J. [23]
At Ascension Church in New York City, the demand for an evening Mass lead to a unique liturgy using jazz music. Watch "The Birth of a Jazz Mass," [24] produced by Matthew Moll.
Author Robert Sullivan introduces the Henry David Thoreau you don't know on our podcast [25].
"Hipster Orthodoxy," [26] Sean Dempsey, S.J., on the rock ’n roll theology of the rock band The Hold Steady.
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