‘The Story of God’ with host and guide Morgan Freeman

Last updated on: April 3, 2016 at 3:52 pm By Sister Rose

National Geographic’s beautiful and intelligent filmic pilgrimage about God is narrated by an actor who comes with solid credentials: Morgan Freeman played God in two feature films directed by Tom Shadyac: “Bruce Almighty” (2003) and “Evan Almighty” (2007). In “The Story of God,” aired as a six-part series beginning Sunday, Freeman moors himself in Greenwood, Miss., his hometown and source of his family and identity. From Greenwood, he travels the world in search of beliefs about the afterlife, the end... Read more

‘God’s Not Dead 2’ is an altar call for a militia

Last updated on: April 1, 2016 at 7:59 am By Sister Rose

In a city like many others in the United States, a diverse group of students and faculty go about about their daily routines. The football team bends a knee in prayer and the flag is prominent. In a history class about non-violence to achieve civil rights Brooke (Hayley Orrantia), a junior, asks the teacher Grace Wesley (Melissa Joan Hart) if the teachings of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. are like those of Jesus because they all taught non-violence, stood... Read more

“Miracles from Heaven” on the red carpet with Sr Rose

Last updated on: March 29, 2016 at 7:34 pm By Sister Rose

Click here for the video of my red carpet interviews for the LA premiere of “Miracles from Heaven”. Read more

‘The Young Messiah’ on the red carpet with Sr Rose

Last updated on: March 29, 2016 at 7:09 pm By Sister Rose

Click here to see the Red Carpet interviews and mini review. Read more

Easter bees enrich Easter Vigil

Last updated on: March 27, 2016 at 9:02 am By Sister Rose

The 2011, the revised English translation of the Roman Missal restored the mention of bees found in the original Latin version of the Exsultet: The Proclamation of Easter. I have no inside information to offer as to why the bees were ever left out of the previous translation. But their return enriches the sensual experience of the Easter Vigil because it engages the imagination and invites us to contemplate God’s creation in the Easter mystery. Perhaps it is because there... Read more

‘Miracles from Heaven’ is the perfect film for Easter

Last updated on: March 18, 2016 at 2:59 pm By Sister Rose

Annabelle Beam, “Anna” (Kylie Rogers) is a ten year-old girl who lives with her two sisters and parents, Christy (Jennifer Garner) and Kevin (Martin Henderson) in Burleson TX. Anna suffers from “pseudo-obstruction motility disorder” meaning that her intestines are not able to function. As her condition worsens with increasing pain, Christy desperately tries to find a doctor that can help Anna but is frustrated at every turn. Christy finally finds Dr. Nurko (Eugenio Derbez) in Boston and makes repeated calls... Read more

‘The Young Messiah’ a unique imagining of Jesus as a child

Last updated on: September 20, 2016 at 11:47 am By Sister Rose

In this cinematic imagining of Jesus (Adam Greaves-Neal) as a child of about seven or eight living with his parents in the small Jewish community of Alexandria, Egypt, we meet a young boy who is bullied and willing to stand up for another child, a girl, being picked on as well. With some devilish mischief thrown in the brawl, a child dies and Jesus is accused. When Jesus sneaks to the boys bedside he lays his hands on his face... Read more

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Last updated on: June 5, 2025 at 12:48 pm By Sister Rose

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The Catholic Legion of Decency – a bibliography

Last updated on: March 2, 2016 at 6:29 pm By Sister Rose

I am posting this bibliography as a reference to the Turner Classic Movies series “Condemned” that I am hosting on the Thursdays of March, 2016 (17 of the 27 films, that is.) Please feel free to add titles that I may have missed and refer to my previous post with a paper on the history of the Catholic Legion of Decency. These titles are listed on Amazon but some are no longer available or are very expensive; a library may... Read more

Statement from Daughters of St. Paul: “Condemned” series on TCM hosted by Sr. Rose Pacatte

Last updated on: February 29, 2016 at 6:02 pm By Sister Rose

Statement from the Daughters of St. Paul Beginning on Thursday, March 3, Sr. Rose Pacatte, the founding Director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Culver City, CA, will be providing introductions and commentary on a series of films for Turner Classic Movies (TCM) entitled “Condemned.” While the title is provocative, the subject consists in twenty-seven films that were condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency between the years 1933 – 1965, and then some in the following years.... Read more