Media Mindfulness Blog

Let’s put it out there right off the bat. I’m a realist and very pragmatic. I love stories about people, even if they are fictional, stories that delve deeply into human struggles in order to bring out the best of humanity—the values, the heroism, and the beauty. So, with that said, I sometimes struggle with fantasy stories that force me to think in symbols rather than in actual concepts and concrete images. That’s the gift of fantasy. These stories take us into another w...

Sr. Nancy helps us see how to find God and grace at work in film stories.

Our Pauline Brother in Poland submitted a film to the Hollywood Short Film Festival and it was accepted and screening along with dozens of other films by creative filmmakers. Sr. Helena and I were there to represent him and all the Paulines worldwide.

God's presence in our world means we can find His grace at work in that world, even in film stories, if we know how to look. Sr. Nancy reflects on the elements of grace in Greta Gerwig's film, "Lady Bird."

Sr. Nancy gets us in the Thanksgiving spirit with reflections on food films and sacramentality.

The fourth of seven articles connecting media and the themes of Catholic Social Teaching.

What are the challenges of a digital life? Media mindfulness is a method of inquiry, as Sr. Hosea has been writing about on this blog (click here for the introductory article). Part of this strategy is bringing a virtue ethics into the process of inquiry as a way of balancing it with our values, and most importantly our Christian values.

The third of seven articles connecting media and the themes of Catholic Social Teaching.

Sr. Helena recommends these films and TV shows as a way to enter into JP II's Theology of the Body.

Great stuff happening at the 2017 Media Literacy Course in Los Angeles.