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Email a FriendPosted by Josie on Tuesday, Sep 27, 2011 5:47 PM (EDT):
Oh, I heard about this and totally forgot it was on when it was on! So happy to revisit it! I will pray with you! God bless.
Catholicism: Are You Watching?
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 3:00 PM
Back in May Danielle alerted us to Fr. Robert Barron’s Catholicism Project. It’s here!
I haven’t been home to see the first installments on public television, but some friends were telling me last night that it’s blockbuster: stunningly gorgeous, and not didactic or preachy.
If you haven’t caught the buzz, here are a few links which describe what people are excited about, and how parishes and prayer groups are using the DVDs and the accompanying study guide to re-present the joy of the faith to people who have reduced it to a set of rules.
George Weigel describes the scope of the project:
In the fall of 1972, a group of us, philosophy majors all, approached our dean of studies, Father Bob Evers, with a request: Under the supervision of a faculty member, could we build a two-credit senior seminar in our last college semester around Kenneth Clark’s BBC series, “Civilization,” which had been shown on American public television. Father Evers agreed, and we had a ball. “Civilization” was the perfect way to finish a serious undergraduate liberal arts education; it brought together ideas, art, architecture and history in a visually compelling synthesis of the history of western culture that respected Catholicism’s role in shaping the West.
Over the next four decades, I wondered whether someone, somewhere, at some point, would do a “Civilization”-like series on Catholicism itself: a Grand Tour of the Catholic world that explored the Church as a culture through its teaching, its art, its music, its architecture—and above all, through the lives it shaped. That has now happened. The result is the most important media initiative in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States.
Here’s how one parish is using the program.
It’s airing right now in many PBS markets, which is exciting. The series, with study guide, is also available here.
Will you join me in backing up this amazing initiative with prayer for its good fruit?
Are you watching?
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Posted by JM on Tuesday, Sep 27, 2011 9:28 PM (EDT):
I’m looking for information about this on PBS.org. Is the PBS series called Catholicism Project? I’m not coming up with anything.
Thanks!
Posted by Jenny on Wednesday, Sep 28, 2011 8:37 AM (EDT):
Go to http://www.catholicismseries.com It lists the stations/channels, air date, and time by state. It is not being shown in a majority of the states.
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