Rose Pacatte

Sister Rose Pacatte, FSP, is an American film critic and Catholic nun.

In 1967, at age 15, Pacatte entered the Daughters of St. Paul, an order which conducts religious outreach through mass media.[1][2] She earned an M.Ed in media studies from the University of London's Institute of Education in 1995[3][4] and a doctorate in ministry from the Graduate Theological Foundation in 2018.[5] Her doctoral project was an undergraduate film textbook entitled To Seek God's Face: Theological Approaches to Film.[5]

Pacatte is the founding director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies.[6][7] She has been the resident film critic for the St. Anthony Messenger since 2003 and for the National Catholic Reporter since 2008,[8] reviewing mainstream, independent, and faith-based titles.[9] She has sat on ecumenical juries at the Berlin, Locarno, and Cannes film festivals[10][11] and on the SIGNIS independent jury at Venice.[12] In 2015, she presented the inaugural "Redeemer" award at the Razzies parody award show.[13] In 2016, she hosted a series of classic films condemned by the National Legion of Decency on Turner Classic Movies.[14][15]

  1. ^ Pacatte, Rose (14 August 2009). "Zero Gravity, where God was waiting". National Catholic Reporter.
  2. ^ Freedman, Samuel G. (25 January 2013). "Acting as a Mediator at the Crossroads of Faith and Film". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "Rose Pacatte, FSP". Saint Mary's Press.
  4. ^ "Lectio Cinema". Homiletics Online. January 2006.
  5. ^ a b Herlinger, Chris (2 October 2018). "Q & A with Sr. Rose Pacatte on the intersection of theology and film". Global Sisters Report.
  6. ^ Nastasi, Alison (3 March 2016). ""R-Rated Movies Are Better Than PG-13": Sister Rose Pacatte on the Catholic Church's "Condemned" Films and TCM's New Series". Flavorwire.
  7. ^ "TV's not a black-and-white issue". U.S. Catholic. 18 July 2011.
  8. ^ Ko Din, Jean (25 April 2015). "To Sr. Pacatte, it's all about the story". The Catholic Register. Archdiocese of Toronto.
  9. ^ Kelsey, Eric (5 June 2018). "Sex to superheroes: Sister Rose shepherds Catholics through Hollywood movies". Reuters.
  10. ^ "Rose Pacatte". www.inter-film.org. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  11. ^ "SIGNIS and INTERFILM announce the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes 2019". SIGNIS. 4 September 2019.
  12. ^ Pacatte, Rose (18 September 2015). "Seeing 33 films in 12 days at Venice festival". National Catholic Reporter.
  13. ^ Contrera, Jessica (22 February 2015). "A nun presented Ben Affleck with the 'Redeemer Award' at the Razzies". Washington Post.
  14. ^ Scalia, Elizabeth (26 February 2016). "It's Lent! Bring on the Condemned Movies! And the Nun!". Aleteia.
  15. ^ McKinley, Will (3 March 2016). "C Is For 'Condemned': A Nun Looks Back On 47 Years Of Unholy Filmmaking". NPR.