Rose Pacatte
Director, Pauline Center for Media Studies
RCCongress 2010 Workshop:
Helping Kids Mind the Media in Faith Communities
Sister Rose Pacatte, FSP, is the founding director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Culver City, CA.
The PCMS is a non-profit organization and project of the Daughters of St. Paul, a Catholic community of women religious. The mission of the PCMS is to develop and encourage media literacy/media mindfulness for parents and teachers within the context of culture, education, and faith formation.
Sister Rose was involved in evangelization through media for three decades before specializing in media literacy. Since 1995 she has presented media literacy training seminars nationally and internationally, has co-directed the National Film Retreat since 2000 and written curriculum and facilitated media and theology of communication courses for the University of Dayton’s Virtual Learning Community.
She has also been a member of Catholic and ecumenical juries at the Venice, Berlin, and Locarno International Film Festivals and co-written the award-winning series Lights, Camera, Faith on film and scripture. She has received numerous DeRose-Hinkhouse Awards from the RCC for her writings, including Media Mindfulness: Educating Teens about Faith and Media that she wrote with Gretchen Hailer, RSHM (2007, St. Mary’s Press). She is also the award-winning film/TV critic for St. Anthony Messenger magazine.
Sister Rose has an MEd in Media Studies from the University of London’s Institute of Education and a Certificate in Pastoral Communications from the University of London.
Helping Kids Mind the Media in Faith Communities
Media, in all its forms, has a fascinating allure for many of us. But today’s youth spend a great deal of time interacting with the media with little discernment skills. Navigating the media requires understanding how each medium works.
In this session Sister Rose will present and explore the strategy of “media mindfulness” — a method of engaging the media and popular culture through the eyes of faith and responsible citizenship in a globalized world.
We have become multi-literate and children who have access to technology learn to multitask using this literacy from a young age.