I am so pleased to let you know that my August 2006 column featuring SUPERMAN RETURNS and AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, “Eye on Entertainment”, St. Anthony Messenger, among others, received a Second Place Award for Best Review Section (magazines) from the Catholic Press Association. www.catholicpress.org.   Pauline Books & Media, the publishing house of the Daughters of St. Paul, received three book awards as well.   Award M13 Best review section Second Place St. … [Read more...]

Yesterday was the 41st World Communications Day. I suggest that you to visit this website from the Ponitifcal Council for Social Communications: http://www.pccs.it/Doc_GMCS_eng.htm The following is a commentary on Pope Benedict XVI's Address for this special day that asks us to consider the mediated world in which we live, in freedom and responsibility. Please note the list on the website of all the talks given over the last 41 years. This site is for all those who are interested in … [Read more...]

Friends have been calling or emailing to ask about the fire that began yesterday at Griffith Park/Griffith Park Observatory. We are located about 13 miles due west of the park. Sister Frances was driving home along the I-10 just after the fire started and when she got home told us of how high the flames were burning. I looked out of an upstairs window and could see what looked like a huge mushroom shaped cloud rising from the park beginning to move to the west. The skies are blue and clear today … [Read more...]

A Film Study Guide to Spider-Man 3 By Sr. Rose Pacatte, fsprpacatte@paulinemedia.com   The 2007 summer movie season will be known as a season of “threes”: Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, Rush Hour 3, and films that are third in their franchises: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Ocean’s Thirteen and The Bourne Ultimatum. Spider-Man 3 launches the summer box office with a bang. This essay explores what makes Spider-Man 3 interesting to believers and people of good will and … [Read more...]