Oprah’s Movie A Wrinkle in Time is Catholic Produced!
The new movie starring Oprah Winfrey took four years to make – hardly a wrinkle in time – as the Catholic co-producer told MARK PATTISON.
Category: Media
What is Net Neutrality and How Does it Affect Christians?
“Without open internet principles which prohibit paid prioritisation, we might be forced to pay fees to ensure that our high-bandwidth content receives fair treatment on the internet”
Sermon on the Screen: Priest plays himself in ‘Lady Bird’
Part of a voice-over in the trailer for “Lady Bird” – playing over scenes from the movie and in between dialogue – comes from a homily delivered to Catholic high school students attending a school Mass in the beginning of the movie.
Sunday Times Associate Editor Talks to Seminarians
Catholic seminarians hosted prominent political journalist Ranjeni Munusamy as a guest lecturer. Ms Munusamy, currently associate editor of The Sunday Times and previously of The Daily Maverick, comes from Dundee diocese and is at present a parishioner in Bryanston, Johannesburg
Would You Watch Jesus on Reality TV?
Julia Beacroft asks: If Jesus were to appear on our screens today as a chat-show guest, would you follow my son’s example and enthusiastically shout: “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!”?
Make Way for the Gospel: Vatican Ensures Media Give the Message
As the Vatican Secretariat for Communication works to unify Vatican media efforts, a key pastoral concern is to keep open all the channels that allow Pope Francis to speak to the world. “With a...
Rigid Thinking isn’t Divine, Pope tells Jesuit Magazine
Discernment is needed to understand life’s ambiguities, not rigid thinking that tends to silence the Holy Spirit, Pope Francis said. True discernment can only be achieved by interpreting the signs of the times and...
Journalistic Truth in a Spin Today
Guest editorial by Michael Shackleton – It is instructive that the upcoming presidential elections in France have pushed some internet giants to prepare for them by providing new fact-checking tools. Facebook, Google and others already...
Don’t use Media to Lie, or Hurt, Frighten People
The media must not stir up fear when covering issues or events such as forced migration due to war or famine, Pope Francis said. While criticism and exposing wrongdoing is “legitimate and, I would add,...
Catholic Leaders hope film Spotlight will focus Church’s efforts on abuse
By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service Catholic leaders, both ordained and lay, said in essays they welcomed the attention certain to be paid to the Catholic Church upon the nationwide release of the movie...
Salt+Light witness interview: Fr James Martin SJ
February 28, 2014 – Fr. James Martin SJ, is a Jesuit priest, award-winning author and Editor-at-Large at AMERICA, the national Catholic magazine published by the Society of Jesus in the United States. After working...
