Sister Rose Pacatte, FSP, is an American film critic and Catholic nun.
In 1967, at age 15, Pacatte entered the
Daughters of St. Paul
The Daughters of St. Paul ( la, Filiarum Sancti Pauli; it, Figlie di San Paolo), also known as the Media Nuns, are an international Catholic religious congregation of consecrated womenhttps://www.paoline.org/who-we-are/the-pauline-family/?lang= ...
, an order which conducts religious outreach through mass media. She earned an M.Ed in media studies from the
University of London's
Institute of Education in 1995 and a doctorate in ministry from the
Graduate Theological Foundation in 2018.
Her doctoral project was an undergraduate film textbook entitled ''To Seek God's Face: Theological Approaches to Film''.
Pacatte is the founding director of the
Pauline Center for Media Studies. She has been the resident film critic for the ''St. Anthony Messenger'' since 2003 and for the ''
National Catholic Reporter'' since 2008, reviewing mainstream, independent, and faith-based titles. She has sat on
ecumenical juries at the
Berlin,
Locarno, and
Cannes film festivals and on the
SIGNIS independent jury at
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...
. In 2015, she presented the inaugural "
Redeemer" award at the
Razzies
The Golden Raspberry Awards (also known as the Razzies and Razzie Awards) is a parody award show honoring the worst of cinematic under-achievements. Co-founded by UCLA film graduates and film industry veterans John J. B. Wilson and Mo Murphy, ...
parody award show. In 2016, she hosted a series of classic films condemned by the
National Legion of Decency on
Turner Classic Movies.
References
External links
Pacatte at Rotten Tomatoes
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Alumni of the UCL Institute of Education
Graduate Theological Foundation alumni
20th-century Roman Catholic nuns
Pauline Family
Turner Classic Movies
Living people
American women film critics
American film critics
1952 births
21st-century American Roman Catholic nuns