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Editors' Picks

May 5, 2008 [1]
Maurice Timothy Reidy [2]
The best of America on the Web

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.

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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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Maurice Timothy Reidy is the online editor of America.

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