The July 11 edition of Religion amp Ethics Newsweekly included a nice feature on the 150th anniversary of Lourdes Among those interviewed was Fr Jim Martin who has written about his trips to Lourdes in America here and here You can watch the R amp E piece and read the transcript here Tim Rei

Just a reminder that Jennifer Fulwiler author of A Sexual Revolution will be live-blogging about her article on Monday and Tuesday here at In All Things A former pro-choice atheist Jennifer is a Catholic convert and blogs at Et Tu Jennifer will be blogging about her conversion and resp

Two additions to our Web site this week may be of interest to readers of The Good Word First the editorial in our July 7-14 issue looks at the upcoming synod on the Bible and the working document or instrumentem laboris for the conference that was released earlier this month The editors write

Congrats to America blogger Michael Sean Winters on the release of his new book Left at the Altar How the Democrats Lost the Catholics and How the Catholics Can Save the Democrats George Stephanopoulos hosted a book part for Michael last night at his Georgetown home and the Washington Post was th

Live-blogging starts at 1 p.m.

We re pleased to announce that Austen Ivereigh has joined our roster of bloggers A former deputy editor at The Tablet of London Austen s most recent article for America was about Tony Blair s baptism into the Catholic Church This week Austen offers a British view of the U S race for pres

Readers of the work of literary critic and novelist James Wood will know that he is God-haunted The title of his first novel was after all The Book against God Wood s preoccupation with God specifically the problem of evil is addressed head-on this week s New Yorker in which he cons

The Catholic Press Association announced its annual awards this weekend and America did pretty well OK we did very well please excuse this rare display of pride First and foremost America was named the best magazine in its category winning general excellence honors for our three issues dat

Mark Stricherz s review of HBO s Recount for America is now online Mark once worked as a literary assistant here at the magazine and is the author of Why the Democrats are Blue Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People s Party In his review Mark raises the provocative quest

An excellent article by George Packer in this week s New Yorker traces the steady disintegration of the conservative movement Packer s history is a reminder that from its earliest days American conservativism was deeply attractive to many Catholics Writing about William J Buckley s memorial