National Catholic Reporter: Content by Sr. Rose Pacatte

Adam (Charlie Plummer) is in his senior year when he transfers to St. Agatha’s Catholic High School after he is diagnosed with schizophrenia. At his former school, he wrecked the …

Do film awards matter? I think they do, especially if they are bestowed from one’s peers. It is incredibly challenging and complex to get a film made and distributed. Film …

There is nothing like being unexpectedly homebound, as the coronavirus has done to us all.

Even if you are working remotely, the days may be shorter because others are in a …

In 1954, 13-year-old Bernard Garrett hangs around a bank in Marlin, Texas, listening to men in suits talk money and business and real estate deals. He writes mathematical formulas in …

In 1971, when the new television series “Mrs. America” begins, Phyllis Schlafly, played to perfection by Cate Blanchett, is at the top of her game.

With a graduate degree in government …

In the first episode of “Unorthodox,” a new original series from Netflix, Esther Shapiro or “Esty” (Shira Haas) as she is known in her family and ultra-Orthodox Yiddish-speaking Satmar Hasidic …

An hourlong documentary about the man who could be the second Native American (after St. Kateri Tekakwitha) and first American Indian male to be canonized a saint, is airing on …

It’s always hard for me to think of actor and director Ron Howard as a grandfather. To me, he’ll always be Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor’s (Andy Griffith) son Opie, permanently about 9-years-old. But even television kids …

One day, Canadian filmmaker Jon Hyatt looked at his three sons, his wife and his own screen time use and started asking questions: who or what is in control of …

As ongoing news stories and commentaries on COVID-19 are filled with conflicting information and excess verbiage that distracts from real human needs, talking about truth seems like an excellent idea.

Ann …

If there is one thing about one of America’s most famous Catholic novelists, Flannery O’Connor, it is that she defies the boxes we seek to put her in.

A new documentary, …

Do film awards matter? I think they do, especially if they are bestowed from one’s peers. It is incredibly challenging and complex to get a film made and distributed. Film …