Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast

Thomas Mirus, Nathan Douglas, and Andrew Petiprin gave this panel session at the 2024 Notre Dame Fall Conference, presented by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. The theme of the conference was "Ever Ancient, Ever New: On Catholic Imagination."
30 Years of the Vatican Film List – Catholic Cinema's Past and Future
Thomas Mirus (Catholic Culture) – The Vatican Film List: Introduction and Reflections
Nathan Douglas (Independent Scholar/Filmmaker) – The Filmmaker as Auteur
Andrew Petiprin (Spe Salvi Institute; Word on Fire Institute) – Europe for Everyone: Yesterday's Vatican Film List and Catholic Imagination Today
Chair: John O'Callaghan (University of Notre Dame) 
Video of the panel: https://youtu.be/-7oE8d6RcCw?si=x4cTzl847-A8bG5M

Paul Duda joins James and Thomas to discuss Steven Spielberg's first extant UFO movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and what it says about the kind of meaning and transcendence people are seeking in the current UFO obsession. Paul also talks about the film he is producing about St. Bernadette.
Links
Bernadette movie: 
www.10thhourproductions.org
 www.Bernadettemovie.com
www.Instagram.com/bernadettemovie
Frank and Lou Creative www.Frankandlou.co 
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Music is The Duskwhales, "Take It Back", used with permission. https://theduskwhales.bandcamp.com

On May 30, Thomas is giving the keynote address at the first annual conference of the Thomistic Artists Guild at the parish of St. Vitus in Los Angeles, CA. Free to attend!
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/thomistic-artists-guild-2026-conference

Thomas Mirus, Nathan Douglas, and Andrew Petiprin gave this panel session at the 2024 Notre Dame Fall Conference, presented by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. The theme of the conference was "Ever Ancient, Ever New: On Catholic Imagination."
30 Years of the Vatican Film List – Catholic Cinema's Past and Future
Thomas Mirus (Catholic Culture) – The Vatican Film List: Introduction and Reflections
Nathan Douglas (Independent Scholar/Filmmaker) – The Filmmaker as Auteur
Andrew Petiprin (Spe Salvi Institute; Word on Fire Institute) – Europe for Everyone: Yesterday's Vatican Film List and Catholic Imagination Today
Chair: John O'Callaghan (University of Notre Dame)
Video of the panel: https://youtu.be/-7oE8d6RcCw?si=x4cTzl847-A8bG5M

Thomas Mirus, Nathan Douglas, and Andrew Petiprin gave this panel session at the 2024 Notre Dame Fall Conference, presented by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. The theme of the conference was "Ever Ancient, Ever New: On Catholic Imagination."
30 Years of the Vatican Film List – Catholic Cinema's Past and Future
Thomas Mirus (Catholic Culture) – The Vatican Film List: Introduction and Reflections
Nathan Douglas (Independent Scholar/Filmmaker) – The Filmmaker as Auteur
Andrew Petiprin (Spe Salvi Institute; Word on Fire Institute) – Europe for Everyone: Yesterday's Vatican Film List and Catholic Imagination Today
Chair: John O'Callaghan (University of Notre Dame) 
Video of the panel: https://youtu.be/-7oE8d6RcCw?si=x4cTzl847-A8bG5M