Media / Pope Francis / Religious Art
by Christen Torres · Published August 14, 2018 · Last modified August 13, 2018
A critically acclaimed documentary about Pope Francis by award-winning director Wim Wenders will not go on circuit in South African, or any African, cinemas anytime soon. The feature-length documentary Pope Francis: A Man Of His Word, which was lauded by film critics worldwide, will not come to Africa because the international distributors have no plans at present of bringing it to the continent with the world’s fastest-rising Catholic population.
The new movie starring Oprah Winfrey took four years to make – hardly a wrinkle in time – as the Catholic co-producer told MARK PATTISON.
Christian Living / Media / Social Media / Technology & Christian Life
by Kilian SC · Published December 9, 2017 · Last modified December 6, 2017
“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”
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.
Church / Media / News / Priests / Vocations
by hazelelponiSC · Published November 23, 2017 · Last modified November 21, 2017
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
Christian Living / Jesus / Media
by asiel · Published September 20, 2017 · Last modified September 21, 2017
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!”?
Media / Pope Francis / Vatican
by Kilian SC · Published March 31, 2017 · Last modified March 30, 2017
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...
Church / God & Salvation / Media / Pope Francis
by Jael SC · Published February 20, 2017 · Last modified February 17, 2017
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...
Church / Editorials 2017 / Media / Shackleton
by Michael Shackleton · Published February 19, 2017 · Last modified February 17, 2017
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...
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,...
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...
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...
