Too much coverage of Downton Abbey in the media nbsp Never nbsp For our second-season roundup we knew that there was only one writer for the job our film reviewer John Anderson who often writes for The New York Times and Variety nbsp My favorite apercu nbsp Perhaps the most remarkable t

There is an absolute nbsp plethora of spiritual resources on the web to help you in your journey during Lent nbsp In fact there are so many and I ve gotten so many emails promoting them that it s somewhat hard to keep track nbsp But here goes nbsp First off is our own series of bri

Mary Valle a smart savvy writer and an editor at Killing the Buddha recently attended a one-woman show on the life of St Catherine of Siena performed by an Adrian Dominican Sister named Nancy Murray mdash who is incidentally Bill Murray s sister What can Catherine of Benincasa say to us n

Cardinal-designate Timothy M Dolan head of the USCCB and archbishop of New York told John Allen of NCR nbsp that the bishops are not Obama haters despite what some may think nbsp More importantly he stresses a posture of openness and dialogue with respect to the HHS decision nbsp We

Seven years ago today Dorothy Stang an American Sister of Notre Dame de Namur was martyred in the Amazon as a result of her work with the landless poor there When two hired gunmen met her on a muddy path they asked if she was carrying a weapon In reply she took out a Bible and began to recite

Six stupid things that I never want to do again

I rsquo m an over-the-top ldquo Downton Abbey rdquo fan nbsp Lately I rsquo ve been nbsp avoiding all Sunday night engagements at least those that continue past 9 00 PM ET and am downcast if I haven rsquo t heard the Dowager Countess rsquo s most recent nbsp aper ccedil u nbsp Despite the sh

Happy Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes nbsp Here is a report from Religion amp Ethics Newsweekly from the French shrine showing what happened there in 1858 and what happens there today Watch Lourdes 150th Anniversary on PBS See more from Religion amp Ethics NewsWeekly

Today is the last day of our longtime literary editor Patricia A Kossmann who joined the staff of America in 1999 nbsp Among many other distinctions she was the first full-time female editor at our magazine nbsp It rsquo s difficult for me to describe with any degree of objectivity all that