Sister Rose’s blog reaches 500,000 hits today

June 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Since I moved my blog to Wordpress on October 5, 2008 I never dreamed of 500.000 hits or page views. In this day of YouTube videos getting a million hits in a day or an hour, this half million in three years eight months, an average of 300 hits a day with 2,900 in one day in 2010, does not seem like much in the virtual scheme of things. Yet it provides me with a motive of thanksgiving for the Internet and the gift of communication between God's people the world over and who knows? Maybe the … [Read more...]

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Along the Way & The Golden Voice book reviews – on time for Fathers Day

June 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Sr. Rose Pacatte A Golden Voice: How Faith, Hard Work, and Humility Brought Me from the Streets to Salvation By Ted Williams (with Brett Witter) Penguin, New York $26 hard cover Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and a Son By Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez (with Hope Edelman) Free Press, New York $27 hard cover Two books were released in May about what it means to be a man: a father, a son and a grandfather, too. Both are apologias more than memoirs and both have a strong faith … [Read more...]

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War Horse review

December 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Among the many themes that emerge or converge in the films of director, producer, writer Steven Spielberg are lonely children and war, specifically World War II. From the kids in “E.T”: the Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) to the Oscar-winning “Schindler’s List” (1993),  a black and white film but viewers may remember the little Jewish girl in a red coat, waiting for transport to the Nazi death camps. And from “The Color Purple” (1985) for which he deserved an Oscar, to one of my … [Read more...]

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New movie review site at RCL Benziger for Catechesis & Religious Education

December 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

  Click here to access site http://sisterrosemovies.com … [Read more...]

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Have a Little Faith to air Sunday, November 27 (Hallmark Hall of Fame)

November 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Have a Little Faith (Sunday, November 27, ABC, 9/8) is Mitch Albom's fourth book into a made-for-TV movie and the Hallmark Hall of Fame latest holiday offering. The movie will seem familiar territory for Albom fans at first, then it moves beyond the interview with a beloved mentor, to living the lessons learned. Based on a series of interviews, like "Tuesdays with Morrie", Albom (Bradley Whitford) visits Rabbi Lewis (Martin Landau) who asks Mitch to write and deliver his eulogy. Mitch accepts … [Read more...]

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Precious: Based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire and The Blind Side reviews

December 20, 2009 By 1 Comment

Precious: Based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire – The newly emerging screen actress Gabourey Sidibe plays the teen girl Claireece “Precious” Jones in a film about courage, hope, physical and emotional child abuse, rape, incest, determination, tempered with a tiny touch of humor and humanity. Precious lives in Harlem with her no account mother, Mary (Mo’Nique). She already has a Down syndrome child by her father (her grandmother takes care of him) and now she is expecting another. She … [Read more...]

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An Education, Me and Orson Welles reviews

December 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Me and Orson Welles - This story, based on the novel by Robert Kaplow, is from one of my favorite “hip” directors, Richard Linklatter (Waking Life). It is set in 1937, when Welles was a known radio actor and before he took the world by storm both on the radio and in movies.  “Me and Orson Welles” features a teenager (Zac Ephron; High School Musical) who is in love with the theater, acting, and writing, everything about it. He manages to get hired for no pay by Orson Welles’ company … [Read more...]

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Fantastic Mr Fox, Brothers, The Road, 2010 reviews

December 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

The Fantastic Mr. Fox – Based on a story by Roald Dahl (1916-1990), director Wes Anderson (The Darjeerling Limited) tells a wonderful and quirky stop-action animated tale about a wily fox (voiced by George Clooney who could get an Oscar nod just for this; Meryl Streep voices Mrs. Fox) who takes on three mean farmers by stealing cider, turkeys, chickens, and ducks from them. Well, he tries to outwit them as foxes are by nature wont to do.  All the farmers get for their trouble is Mr. Fox’s … [Read more...]

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Movie Reviews Food, Inc., My Sister’s Keeper, Harry Potter & Half-Blood Prince, etc.

August 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment

My reviews for St. Anthony Messenger, September 2009 are online now. After the road trip my sister and I took these last couple of days from Half Moon Bay to Marin County, CA, organic takes on a whole new "feel". In case you haven't been to Marin County lately, it's one big celebration of organic edibles. The film Food, Inc. will make you evaluate the source of everything you put into your mouth, and the consequences of not questioning and speaking up about corn-fed and syrup-ed processed and … [Read more...]

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