A live broadcast of the Priestly ordination of two Associates on 5th September will be available at the BetaFilms site starting at 10AM (Spain time).

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We have put here a collection of screenshots of the broadcast of the Ordination of 32 Priests last May 8th 2010.

• The broadcast is likewise available at the Torreciudad website.
• Don’t fail to sign up for the Torreciudad Facebook group.

Matthew Warner, who writes for the National Catholic Register, talks here about the use of social media by Catholics, and gives us statistics that indicate little use of Social Media by Catholic priests, maybe because of a mistaken idea that they have no time to write a blog, or that they will have little effect… But they are wrong, as Matthew tells us.

His last statistic is:

“68% of local church members want to connect with their church via social media. This is the crux of the matter. And this statistic is only rapidly getting bigger and bigger. If you’ve been holding out hoping that this whole social media thing is just a passing fad, it’s time to wake up. Regardless of what you think about social media, how much you like using it, or whatever other hesitations you have about it, people want to connect with their parish using it. You can either help them out. Or you can deny them. Those are your choices.

Much more, parishioners need church leadership to help show them the right way to use social media. They need guidance on how to use it in a healthy way. Bottom line, they are looking for truth online – let’s help them find it.”

One of the frequently visited Forum threads is the one on FILMS. It seems that readers come here to look for –among other things– resources related to Movies and Entertainment (assessment, recommended films and TV programs, synopses, etc.).

We found a list of “Top 100 Pro-Catholic Movies” on National Catholic Register.

For updated film reviews and analyses, we recommend the following:

• USCCB Office for Film and Broadcasting;
• Act One Program and Barbara Nicolosi’s “Church of the Masses” blog;
• Sister Rose Pacatte’s movie reviews;
• “Jesucristo en el Cine” (Spanish) (some of Alfonso’s articles have been translated to English in the Forum);
• CinemaNet.info (Spanish).

We encourage you, dear reader, to send in links or resources that you think should be added here.  :-)

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RomeReports.com video – Priests as seen by Italian cinema:

• Benedict XVI appointed Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, as president of the recently created Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization.
• Benedict XVI appointed Cardinal Marc Ouellet, archbishop of Quebec, as prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
• Bishop of Basel Kurt Koch has been named as president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. He takes the place of Cardinal Walter Kasper at the helm of the Vatican’s department for ecumenical outreach.
• The Holy See announced the nomination of priest, medical doctor and philosopher Msgr. Ignacio Carrasco de Paula to the presidency of the Pontifical Academy for Life on Wednesday, 30 June. Msgr. Carrasco de Paula served as the rector of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, 1984-1994, and director of its Moral Theology Department, 1994-2002.

For more up-to-date Catholic news and info, please bookmark Catinfor.com.  Also, if you’re on Facebook, please sign up for Catinfor English.  You might also want to bookmark Vatican Information Service news.

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We share here a video of the song/music “You are a Priest forever…”, shared with us by Fr. Piotr (Polish Priest):

We hope you’d like it…