National Catholic Reporter: Content by Sr. Rose Pacatte

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 …

I wish I had been home that day in 2004 when the 6-foot-6-inch Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant visited our Pauline Books and Media Center in Culver City, …

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 …

While I am not a football fan, I have watched almost every Super Bowl game for the last 30 years for three reasons: the commercials, the food and the company. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …