{"id":785,"date":"2009-04-17T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/04\/god-bless-america.html"},"modified":"2009-04-17T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T07:56:00","slug":"god-bless-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/04\/god-bless-america.html","title":{"rendered":"God bless &#8220;America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/SehwG6EpZwI\/AAAAAAAAFbk\/3O1RXNs2cBY\/s1600-h\/cupcake-candle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 200px;height: 200px\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/SehwG6EpZwI\/AAAAAAAAFbk\/3O1RXNs2cBY\/s400\/cupcake-candle.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irishcatholichumanist.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/happy-birthday-america.html\">Doc Mac<\/a> reminds us that today is the Big Day for a venerable and enduring Catholic institution: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Today marks the hundredth anniversary of America magazine. The founder was father John J. Wynne, the Jesuit who conceived the idea of the Catholic Encyclopedia. Wynne had edited the Jesuits\u2019 Messenger of the Sacred Heart since the 1890\u2019s, but he wanted to create a magazine that was less devotional and more wide-ranging so that readers might \u201cfind God in all things.\u201d The title was meant to show the magazine\u2019s scope, and it was subtitled \u201cCatholic Review of the Week.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Your Humble Blogger has popped up in the pages of <i>America<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/content\/article.cfm?article_id=11376\">a time<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/content\/article.cfm?article_id=10652\">two<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/content\/article.cfm?article_id=2857\">three<\/a>, so I&#8217;m hardly objective about this.  But I think the magazine has been a valuable contributor to the ongoing conversation about Catholicism in America.  <\/p>\n<p>And the people who work there are awfully nice, too.  <\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, <i>America<\/i>!  <\/p>\n<p>Indeed: God bless <i>America<\/i>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Mac reminds us that today is the Big Day for a venerable and enduring Catholic institution: Today marks the hundredth anniversary of America magazine. The founder was father John J. Wynne, the Jesuit who conceived the idea of the Catholic Encyclopedia. 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