2010-10-04T07:21:27-06:00

Last updated on: October 4, 2010 at 7:21 am   By

Media literacy education, or media mindfulness, is about learning skills to navigate popular, media culture through the dual lens of faith and critical thinking. Media literacy leads to media mindfulness: thoughtful media choices for intentional living. Media literacy provides a values-based strategy based on social analysis and theological reflection to build character and contribute to culture and vital citizenship. Media literacy education in the faith community explores Church teaching about media and communication and contributes to understanding culture and a... Read more

2010-10-02T16:35:23-06:00

Last updated on: October 2, 2010 at 4:35 pm   By

Teresa Deevy 1894-1963 Theater aims to rescue Irish Catholic playwright from unmerited obscurity By Retta Blaney National Catholic Reporter She had six plays produced at Dublin, Ireland’s Abbey Theater in six years in the 1930s. When her seventh met with rejection, she began writing for radio, despite having been deaf since 19, the result of Ménière’s disease. In 1954 she was elected to the prestigious Irish Academy of Letters. The Irish Timescalled her one of the most significant Irish playwrights of... Read more

2010-10-02T10:13:12-06:00

Last updated on: October 2, 2010 at 10:13 am   By

The Social Network: It’s all about character Last week an 18-year old Rutgers University student, Tyler Clementi, took his own life after two students videotaped him having a sexual encounter with another male, then posting it on the Internet.  I was listening to NPR on the way home from the theater today and the talk was about privacy issues in the age of the Internet.  Perhaps we are all guilty of hurtful gossip as children and teenagers, saying things about... Read more

2010-09-26T17:22:15-06:00

Last updated on: September 26, 2010 at 5:22 pm   By

Oscar-winner Oliver Stone’s new film “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” is a dark, prophetic masterpiece showcasing some of the best acting this year and some of the weakest.  Yet, it is profoundly disappointing because its premise forgoes morality and any consequences of the evolutionary inevitability of capitalism’s dominance over our humanity. In a way it mourns transcendence. Money may never sleep, and human nature, despite our best impulses, cannot stand up to the temptation to fill up our barn banks... Read more

2010-09-21T05:20:22-06:00

Last updated on: September 21, 2010 at 5:20 am   By

Here is my take on movie nuns behaving badly in The Town and Machete: Two new films outdated stereotypes Read more

2010-09-21T04:12:22-06:00

Last updated on: September 21, 2010 at 4:12 am   By

The Los Angeles Times‘ observant and opinionated journalist Steve Lopez is often irritating but always honest about life in the city of angels. In Sunday’s paper Lopez recounts his visit last Friday to A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles. Duffy reacted negatively, as would be expected, to the L.A. Timesrecent investigation and values-added formula analysis of teachers. Los Angeles Times published on its website a database of names and grades of teachers in the L.A. Unified School District , the largest in... Read more

2010-09-07T04:11:01-06:00

Last updated on: September 7, 2010 at 4:11 am   By

For more information about the film The Labyrinth and an interview with producer Jason Smith The Labyrinth Interview Ron Schmidt, SJ Read more

2010-08-29T09:35:21-06:00

Last updated on: August 29, 2010 at 9:35 am   By

Just saw The Tillman Story; the theater was almost sold out. Heartbreaking and though there was a mockery of a congressional investigation, you should hear those generals and Rumsfeld play semantics – for the record. Our country is brought low this day because of the coverup of the reason for Tillman’s death. When lies are needed to protect a war, we need to ask what is being done in our names. Here is a longer review just posted on NCR:... Read more

2010-08-29T02:31:51-06:00

Last updated on: August 29, 2010 at 2:31 am   By

The  deeply felt television film, starring Kimberly Williams, will be released on DVD September 14, 2010. It is based on true events about how  the Amish community dealt with the tragedy of the Amish school shootings on October 2, 2006. Here is a link to my reviews as well as others for this highest rated ever Lifetime movie: Amish Grace The film is an exercise in forgiveness and reconciliation but is never preachy. Deeply moving but never sentimental. My only... Read more

2010-08-28T08:51:58-06:00

Last updated on: August 28, 2010 at 8:51 am   By

This YouTube video can tell us so much: innocence, talent, how smart kids really are, how to silence women who are only trying to verbalize their views, body language, and so forth. I just love this… Read more

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