Catholic in Film School

If you’re in the New Orleans area, Holy Cross College is hosting the Reel Faith Vocation Film Festival on Tuesday, Apr. 8 from 6-10 p.m. (You can find the Facebook group here.)
The main screenings are of “The Human Experience” at 6 p.m. and “The Calling” at 8:10 p.m. The festival is free and both screenings [...]

I hope you’re enjoying the three day weekend.
On Saturday I went to my first Catholic wedding, and today I went to a gun range! I’ve handled guns before, but I’ve never actually shot one. A friend of mine goes to the range regularly and he promised to take me and [...]

In this episode:
* Footage from my Triduum and Easter celebrations
*My second project for my production class
*My current screenwriting projects.
*Picks of the Week
- No Catholic in the Media this Week (I was too busy to research anyone.)
- Into the West (1992)
- Jen’s blog

Pax Christi, [...]

Greg Wilits from over at Rosary Army called the Japanese show Ninja Warrior “TV crack”.
I think he’s right. I was watching this crap for hours last night.
The Fireman

The first female Ninja Warrior!

Pax Christi, Rebecca.

I know Lent isn’t about numbers and God isn’t going to condemn me because I didn’t do every single thing on my Lenten sacrifice list, but I’m a goal-oriented, keep-track-of-the-score type of a person and the fact is that my Lent sucked.
I didn’t finish Papa Ben’s book, I didn’t finish reading all of the Gospels, [...]

I was reading the FFOR’s eletter as I do every so often, and this is the greeting it began with.
I hope you had a marvelous Triduum and a beautiful Easter. I stayed on campus this year to serve as a sacristan and I had a really great time. I went to my first Easter Vigil [...]

O, yes.
It’s time for another Catholic celebrity and entertainment gossip post. For the first edition of the “Rumor has it” thread, click here.
…I’m quite surprised I didn’t know this, but apparently American Idol winner and pop star Kelly Clarkson is Catholic…now that I think about it, I did see her wearing a rosary in [...]

So.
A couple of posts ago I was reeling over the threat of impending adulthood. Juniors and seniors are not guaranteed campus housing, and in the event that I was not able to get a place on campus I was going to have to move to LA, get a “real job”, be fully independent, and [...]

Yes, I am fully aware this feast day has been changed too, but o well, I wore green today anyway (as did the rest of the world.)
This parody came out two years ago, but I still laugh out loud whenever I see it. (If you’re from Alabama, I hope you have a good sense [...]

I’m publishing this waaaaaay later than originally intended, but here it is, the Q&A from “The Human Experience” screening. I realize that this isn’t a legit vlog episode, but since I had to edit it, I’ve decided that it should count for at least half of an episode. (Lol!)
After watching the film, listening to the [...]

Technically, St. Joseph’s feast day isn’t until the 19th, but to prevent a conflict during Holy Week, Papa Ben has changed my beloved patron saint’s day of recognition to today.
St. Joseph became my patron saint last year. He came to me in a dream once, and since then I’ve grown a bit of a [...]

Seriously.
And the saddest part is that I already have two jobs.
I’m at that weird point of transition in my life where I’m away from home and I essentially take care of myself, but I’m still on my mother’s health insurance and she still pays off my credit card bills. So I’m independent, (but not [...]

In this episode:
* My trip to the Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, CA
* My trip to San Francisco for the Human Experience and the Cinema Vita Film Festival
* Picks of the Week:
- Sheree Brown, Catholic author of “Zhakanaka”
- “The Human Experience” (2007)
- InsideCatholic.com
I cleaned my camera, but there’s still [...]

I didn’t say this in the vlog episode, but the Cinema Vita Film Festival was definitely a success. All of the winning films are now up on the website for viewing.
My favorite by far was “Wrinkles in Time”, winner of the high school category. It was a documentary by homeschooler Nathanial Sharpe, that expressed [...]

So I finally saw it! And I did enjoy it.
The film follows two brothers, Cliff and Jeff Azize (who also work for Grassroots Films) as they travel the world to try to understand what it means to be human. It’s quite a lofty concept to undertake in 90 minutes, but to do so the brothers [...]

I came across this rather comedic facebook group for all of those Catholic women who can be found “anywhere a priest, seminarian, or acolyte finds themselves in need of a little Feminine Genius, particularly in practical matters (and often before they realize the need).” After I read the description all I could think was, “My [...]

Here’s the list of all of the films shown and their companies. I wasn’t able to watch all of them on either day because of dinner obligations, but for the most part I liked what I saw.
Day 1: Friday, Feb. 29
1. The Human Experience (Trailer), Grassroots Films
I saw it while I was in San [...]

I’m back from Congress, and at the moment I’m at home in San Diego. Tomorrow I will be driving back to LA to drop my stuff off on campus and then fly out of LAX to San Francisco.
Tonight I will be recording vlog episode #2, but I won’t have enough time to edit it [...]

Unless you live under a rock, you’ll know that the contemporary American university is a breeding ground for the Culture of Death. Out here in SoCal, it’s highly unlikely to find any pro-life students, let alone any who are willing to stand up in the face of peer admonition. I’ve gotten into arguments with students [...]