TV series on life of parish priests, "Feed My Sheep," to air on Boston Catholic Television
New TV series features life of parish priestsBoston, Aug. 26, 2005 (
CNA) - A new television series about the joys and challenges of the priesthood, based on the experience of 12 Boston-area priests, is set to launch the fall line-up on Boston Catholic Television (BCTV) next month.
"Feed My Sheep" features priests at different stages in their ministry. Some are recently ordained, others are long-time priests, still others are nearing retirement. Some priests will share their experience ministering in the city, while others will reflect on their suburban parish experience.
The program includes the question-and-answer format. BCTV's director, Fr. Robert Reed, asked the priests 12 questions on the station’s “Daily Mass” chapel set.
"Feed My Sheep" will run from Sept. 6 through February. It will air weekly on Tuesdays at 2:30 p.m., Thursdays at 6 p.m., Fridays at 11:30 a.m., Saturdays at 9 p.m., and Sundays at 1 p.m.
JPII and Benedict XVI gave thumbs up to 'popedocumentary,' "The Man Who Became Pope"
A hat tip to
St. Peter's Helpers for today's post:
Against the GrainThursday, August 25, 2005
The Man Who Became Pope Posted by Christopher at
11:45 PMI was going to blog about this yesterday but I see
Vivificat already beat me to it. =) This past weekend I saw "A Man Who Became Pope", a dramatization of the early life of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, and I heartily recommend it. If it's any incentive, the film was previewed by both
Pope Benedict XVI and John Paul II himself in a private viewing, receiving great approval:
"A Man Who Became Pope" was warmly received when screened at the Vatican's Paul VI hall on May 19. "The film presents scenes and episodes that, in their severity, awaken in the viewers an instinctive 'turning away' in horror and stimulates them to consider the abyss of iniquity that can be hidden in the human soul," said Pope Benedict XVI. "At the same time, calling to the fore such aberrations revives in every right-minded person the duty to do what he or she can so that such inhuman barbarism never happens again...I...express living gratitude to those who wanted to offer me. . . . the opportunity to view this moving film."
Vatican press spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said Pope John Paul II had seen the film in its entirety in a private viewing before his death and was "very impressed" with the portrayal and "appreciated the many scenes" from that period in his life.
Those watching the film with prior knowledge of JPII's life will enjoy certain scenes (his tutoring a student in the phenomenology of Max Scheler, for example, or his reunion with his lifelong Jewish friend
Jerzy Kluger, who would play an instrumental part in the Vatican's recognition of Israel). But even those for whom this is an introduction to JPII will find the plot compelling and the acting exceptional (I did not realize it until Pedro pointed it out, but one of the actors played Pontius Pilate in Gibson's Passion of the Christ).
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By popular demand, "A Man Who Became Pope," airs again Aug. 27 on Hallmark Channel
TV movie on Pope John Paul II to air again this weekend New York, Aug. 24, 2005 (
CNA) - By popular demand, the heroic, true story of Pope John Paul II returns to television. The four-hour movie, “A Man Who Became Pope,” will air again on the Hallmark Channel Aug. 27, at 7 p.m. (ET).
The Aug. 15th U.S. premiere of the film set a weeknight audience record for the cable channel.
Filmed on location in Krakow, Poland, and in the Vatican City, the film features an international cast, including Piotr Adamczyk as Karol Wojtyla and Raul Bova as Fr. Tomasz Zaleski, Karol’s close childhood friend and a martyr to the Nazis.
more...And, now for a little ironic twist. In 2004 during the making of the film, Pope John Paul II, a former actor, actually met and blessed the Polish actor chosen to play him:
Pope blesses actor who plays role of Karol Wojtyla in new movieVatican City, Nov. 16, 2004 (
CNA) - Expressing his surprise upon learning of the making of a movie about his life, Pope John Paul II left the Polish actor who plays his part in the film speechless on meeting with him. The movie, entitled "Karol Wojtyla: the story of a man who became Pope," is set to be screened on Italian television early next year.
"When I learned that the Pope was going to receive me I became very emotional," said Piotr Adamczyk in an interview with the Italian magazine Sorrisi e Canzoni. "But at the same time I was very nervous because I didn’t know what to say to him."
Adamczyk said that while playing the role of the Pope he had "so many things to ask him, but when his secretary had presented me to the Holy Father, for the first time ever, I forgot my lines."
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