Dear Reader: So Long, Sister Rose…

Sister Rose Pacatte

I knew it was something important when Rose Pacatte, FSP, asked me to call her one afternoon in late 2022. Though I did my level best to avoid the conversation, Sister Rose is (bless her) tenacious. So, I called our longtime film critic for what I knew was coming: 2023 will be her last year with St. Anthony Messenger. In fact, June is her final issue with us. Where to begin?ย 

I met Sister Rose in a downtown Cincinnati restaurant more than 20 years ago. In time, I would come to edit her column. And our friendshipโ€”as well as a shared love of filmโ€”took root. As those close to me know, I can be exhausting in my enthusiasm for pop culture, but in Sister Rose I found an inexhaustible mentor and sounding board. 

Like all the greats, Sister Rose shows more than she tells. Film is, after all, a visceral experience, one that can challenge or enrich our faith lives. In Sister Rose, our readers have a champion of the kind of storytelling that moves humanity forward. While the media landscape can be a veritable highway of trash, Sister Rose was our exit ramp to media that informs and inspires. Sheโ€™s won awards, written books, traveled the world, and rubbed elbows with Hollywood royalty. But that is secondary to what brings her real joy: finding God in the media we consume every day. 

What words could possibly commemorate the two decades of knowledge and grace sheโ€™s given to this magazine and my life? I can think of only two: Thank you.



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4 thoughts on “Dear Reader: So Long, Sister Rose…”

    1. THOMAS MARIA SOOSAI RAJAN, india

      We wish REV SR ROSE PACATTE all the best for her involvement in Catholic media education. In fact, I was her student at CREC AVEX, ECULLY, FRANCE ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท DURING 2001-2002.

  1. Thanks to Sister Rose!! Sending my loving thoughts and Marys Special blessing… that I received so completely at Medjugorje ๐Ÿ˜˜๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ’•
    I’m thankful for St Clare and St Francis, ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ with love and gratitude, for hearing my/our prayers, answering our questions, being the models then which I need now, in my time/and advanced age, to help us all to live a life He would smile about.
    Let me please the Lord Jesus of Nazareth. Amen.

  2. My mom will miss your column. She is not a moviegoer but, like Walker Percy, she knows that knowledge and insight into movies is something she needs to converse in society, with her grandkids and great-grands.

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