PBS Shows aired this
week by most PBS stations (check local listings) include Christmas
With the Annie Moses Band, a concert of traditional carols by the
six Wolaver children, ages 11-26; Andre Rieu Live in Dresden:
Wedding at the Opera, in which violinist Rieu, the... READ MORE
New this week from Ignatius Press, The 13th Day
is the best movie ever made about Fatima and a DVD for virtually every Catholic
home. Told in flashback by... READ MORE
Church architect Steven Schloeder has advanced
degrees in both architecture and theology, and he is concerned with both the
practice and theory of sacred architecture.
After
working for international architecture firms both in the United States and
England, he founded Liturgical Environs in... READ MORE
Pope John
Paul II changed the course of Catholic-Jewish relations on April 6, 1993, when,
on the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, he uttered, “As
Christians and Jews, following the example of the faith of Abraham, we are
called to be a blessing to the world.
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
“I believe, when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of
their public duties … they lead their country by a short route to chaos.” So
says Thomas More, played by Paul Scofield, in this 1966 film classic... READ MORE
In theaters,
Roland Emmerich’s 2012 completes the job that Ron Howard’s Angels & Demons — new this week on DVD — began with an antimatter bomb: destroying St.
Peter’s and the Vatican. It has been a rough year at the movies for the... READ MORE
CatholicTV Presents: An Uncommon
Kindness: The Father Damien Story
CATHOLICTV This 2006
documentary profiles Father Damien de Veuster (1840-1889), now St. Damien. Born
in Belgium and ordained in 1864 in Honolulu, he volunteered in 1873 to care for
the lepers whom authorities had... READ MORE
J.J. Abrams’ Star
Trek was among the summer’s best surprises and most enjoyable
popcorn entertainments. New this week on DVD, Star Trek boldly goes
where... READ MORE
Christ-Centered Music Strikes a Positive Chord in Robust Spectacle
November 15-21, 2009 Issue
Arguably the
most surprising thing about Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol is
not the lavish visual spectacle of the visitations of the Christmas spirits and
Scrooge’s visions of the past, present and future, nor the loopy roller-coaster
departures from the text.
At some point in their Christmas shopping this
year, parents will be greeted with a wall of video and computer games bearing
titles that look, to their eyes, like “Deathgore Killer 4: The Bloodening.”
Families
with kids — and even adults — who play games ask themselves before they... READ MORE
New on DVD,
the debate documentary Collision: Christopher Hitchens
vs. Douglas Wilson follows the self-proclaimed anti-theist
polemicist Hitchens and the Reformed pastor Wilson as they meet in formal and
informal debate promoting their jointly authored book Is
Christianity Good for the World?... READ MORE
CATHOLICTV This varied
slate of shows for little ones includes cartoon stories of the Bible and of
Catholic saints and heroes, as well as programs about our Catholic faith.
SUNDAY,
8 p.m.
Extreme Makeover:
Home Edition
ABC The crew, builders
and volunteers... READ MORE
What do you do after you make the acclaimed vocations film about the priesthood, Fishers of Men, and follow it up with God in the Streets of New York, a documentary following a Eucharistic procession in Manhattan?
If you’re the folks at Grassroots Films in Brooklyn, N.Y., you tackle a... READ MORE
When it comes to musical talents, the Hanson
family has been blessed with quite a few. For close to 10 years, the Elmira,
Ore., family of seven children has entertained audiences with their angelic harmonies,
cowboy yodeling and good old-fashioned tunes from the great American songbook.... READ MORE
This week,
two perennial Christmas classics come to Blu-ray — one a Vatican list film, the
other a celebrated tale of redemption. (Even if you don’t have Blu-ray, keep
reading: One new set comes with standard DVD,... READ MORE
COMMUNITY CHANNELS Each
week this cable program, begun in 1994, offers an eight-hour slate of
five-minute-or-less video clips. Many are from early TV, with performances in
the classic arts such as ballet, chamber and choral music, dance, opera,
orchestral works,... READ MORE
It’s not that Father Robert Reed, a Boston Archdiocese priest, is a MTV groupie. After all, as a television network director and TV show host himself, he already has a favorite station — Boston-based, nationally broadcast CatholicTV.
But when Father Reed began looking for a way to promote... READ MORE
Where the Wild Things Are Is a Grown-Up Childhood Fantasy
October 25-31, 2009 Issue
Maurice
Sendak’s poetic, luxuriantly illustrated Where the Wild Things Are
is revered as a childhood classic, but I think it speaks more powerfully to
grown-ups than to children, or at least children of the age for picture books.
I’ve met grown-ups who don’t like
it, but I suspect they... READ MORE
ABC The crew and
volunteers build a new home for Nathan and Jenny Montgomery and their four
children in Philo, Ill. Nathan gave up a career in engineering to found the
Salt & Light Food Pantry in nearby Champaign and now helps feed 250
families a week.... READ MORE
