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VIDEO: Dorothy Day – Canonization without representation
Posted in Bread for the Journey, Peacemakers, Video, Young Adults
Tagged Catholic Worker movement, Dorothy Day
NEWS: Pax Christi USA-produced film on Haiti chosen for film festival
The Pax Christi USA-produced film, Cite Soleil: Sun, Dust and Hope, has been chosen for the Idaho Justice Story Festival: Just Stories, taking place October 19-20 in Boise, Idaho. This follows the selection of the film earlier this year for the New York Peace Film Festival.
The Idaho Justice Story Festival: “Just Stories” is a two-day event featuring live storytelling and films. The event is designed to help bring peace and justice to our world through the act of listening and understanding one another.
The Festival is a fundraising event in support of Stories of our City — a nonprofit organization that produces a weekly podcast featuring stories from real people around the globe.
Click here to see the Schedule of Events.
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Posted in Haiti, News, Sakala, Video
Tagged Cite Soleil, Haiti, Idaho Justice Story Festival, Just Stories, New York Peace Film Festival, SAKALA
WOMEN RELIGIOUS: Bill Moyers interviews Sr. Simone Campbell on “Moyers and Company” this week
On this week’s Moyers and Company, Bill Moyers interviews Sr. Simone Campbell of NETWORK, alongside Robert Royal of the Faith and Reason Institute. Weeks before Republican Paul Ryan was selected to run for vice president, Sister Simone – who heads NETWORK, a Catholic policy and lobbying group — hit the road to protest the so-called “Ryan budget” recently passed by the House of Representatives. She and some of her sister nuns rolled across the heartland on a bus trip designed to arouse public concern over what the Ryan plan would mean for social services in America, especially its slashing of programs for the poor. Sister Simone says his budget is inconsistent with Catholic social teaching. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops agrees.
But other Catholics say Sister Simone and the nuns have crossed a line. Robert Royal, editor in chief of The Catholic Thing and founder of the Faith & Reason Institute, believes that issues of economic inequality are being oversimplified and that the focus should be on creating a more dynamic economy for all.
It’s one of the hottest issues of this overheated summer and it’s on Moyers & Company this week (check local listings http://billmoyers.com/schedule/).
VIDEO: Nuns on the Bus tour featured on Moyers and Company this week
from Moyers and Company
Weeks before Republican Paul Ryan was selected to run for vice president, Sister Simone Campbell – who heads NETWORK, a Catholic policy and lobbying group — hit the road to protest the so-called “Ryan budget” recently passed by the House of Representatives. She and some of her sister nuns rolled across the heartland on a bus trip designed to arouse public concern over what the Ryan plan would mean for social services in America, especially its slashing of programs for the poor. Sister Simone says his budget is inconsistent with Catholic social teaching. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops agrees.
But other Catholics say Sister Simone and the nuns have crossed a line. Robert Royal, editor in chief of The Catholic Thing and founder of the Faith & Reason Institute, believes that issues of economic inequality are being oversimplified and that the focus should be on creating a more dynamic economy for all.
It’s one of the hottest issues of this overheated summer and it’s on Moyers & Company this week (check local listings http://billmoyers.com/schedule/). Watch our field report from producers who rode along on the “Nuns on the Bus” tour, then join a passionate, candid discussion with Sister Simone and Royal.
Here’s an excerpt from this week’s show:
FILM REVIEW: Renouncing the nuclear idol
by Art Laffin, in Tikkun
A Review of The Forgotten Bomb, a film by Bud Ryan and Stuart Overbey (available on DVD January 17, 2012) [Click here for order information]
When I first saw The Forgotten Bomb, I recalled the following words from Deuteronomy: “You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship them” (Deut. 5:8-9). This film is a stark reminder of how we, as a people, have betrayed our trust in God and, for sixty-six years, have instead placed our trust in a nuclear idol.
We have, in fact, become a nation that worships the bomb and glorifies war. As a consequence we find ourselves morally blind, psychically numb, and forgetful of the fact that nuclear weapons, deployed on land, air, and sea, still endanger all life and, in a matter of minutes, could destroy our planet and God’s sacred creation. I agree with the late Jesuit peacemaker, Father Richard McSorley, who said: “Our intention to use nuclear weapons destroys our souls. Our possession of them is a proximate occasion of sin.”
The Forgotten Bomb, produced by Bud Ryan and directed by Stuart Overbey, looks at the political and legal implications of nuclear weapons and also digs deeper into the cultural and psychological reasons behind the atomic bomb’s existence…
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Posted in Film Review, Interfaith, News, Nuclear Disarmament, Regional News, Video
Tagged Art Laffin, Bud Ryan, Cinema Libre, Stuart Overbey, The Forgotten Bomb, Tikkun
