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I'm really looking forward to this! This artcle about the series appears in the NC Register.

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Dean
Most people's sense of history goes back to breakfast time - Benjamin Netanyahu

Dean,

Aren't you afraid of what those liberals at PBS will do?

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David L (CA)
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” - Groucho Marx

Did you read the article?

I'm also a bit more fair-minded about PBS than others. Are you sure you have me pegged correctly?

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Dean
Most people's sense of history goes back to breakfast time - Benjamin Netanyahu

I too look forward to it. I think Father Barron will keep it on track and it will most likely bring many back home to the Church.

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Daniel

"Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division." -- Luke 12:51

If George Weigel recommends it (and it appears from the article that he does), then it's probably pretty good.

Meanwhile, I don't think it's "those liberals at PBS" so much as "those liberals at NPR." PBS programming tends to show the range of its member stations.

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Rose West
"May God help us not to spoil His work" (Bl. Mother Theresa)

Anyone know if the original series was called "Catholics in America?" My wife was interviewed in 2003 when we converted; we thought the project was shelved until now. This occurred when we lived in Maryland and attended a pretty liberal church. Should be interesting.

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Andrew McAllister

Respect for the dignity of every innocent human being from conception/fertilization, without exception, without compromise, without apology.

Andrew,

I doubt it's the same program. From the article it appears they traveled all over the world.

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Dean
Most people's sense of history goes back to breakfast time - Benjamin Netanyahu

Dean,

Thank you for the information. I don't get cable, and so PBS is my "History Channel" and I'm personally a fan of much of the programming on our local PBS station. It includes some of the best programs of U.S. history that I have seen, as well as some very good biographical programs of famous people.

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Sincerely in Christ,
Fr. Angel

I am very excited to see this program! But, I noticed that PBS will be broadcasting it mainly on the East coast. Any idea if we'll be able to access it anywhere else?

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Mindi D.

In the second paragraph it says it's going to air nationwide.

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Rose West
"May God help us not to spoil His work" (Bl. Mother Theresa)

I'll watch it as long as Dominick Croissant is not in it. Why do television shows about Christianity/Catholicism almost always get Croissant as an expert?

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Pax et bonum,
Marie

JMJ

I don't know who he is, but he makes me hungry!

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David L (CA)
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” - Groucho Marx

David:

He was one of the scholars of the Jesus Seminar, which used to vote on which sections of the Gospels were actually true. Some of the scholars, for instance, did not believe in the resurrection accounts, preferring to think that Jesus' body just stayed on the cross until feral dogs came and ate it (which happened with the bodies of others who were crucified).

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Sincerely in Christ,
Fr. Angel

This article makes me wish so much I could see this series! Maybe after a few years, EWTN will show it. I hope!

George Weigel: Father Barron’s ‘Catholicism’


(At the end, are the broadcast times for Denver).

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

Why can't you? Isn't PBS everywhere?

I've got a season pass created for it on our TiVo now!

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Jeff Stevens

Is it like EWTN? Can I watch it on my computer?
I thought it was a TV station in the U.S.

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

Jeff,
You made a season pass for PBS or for Catholicism specifically? Is it expensive?
I've been looking at the PBS web site, and it is overwhelmingly complicated. I can't even find the Catholicism series.

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

Tivo is the programming system to record certain shows so you can watch them later. If Jeff's works the way ours does, a season pass means you've set it up to record every episode unless it's identical to one you've already watched within x number of past weeks. It's nothing one has to purchase.

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Rose West
"May God help us not to spoil His work" (Bl. Mother Theresa)

Amen, Grace! I spent about ten minutes there looking for information about it Using the site's search mechanism, keying in "New 2011 series on Catholicism" yielded thousands upon thousands of result, even when restricting the search to the PBS site.

Though I watch a lot of PBS programs, I am reasonably sure I won't be visiting the website very often.

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In Christ,

Jim B

I will consider your position if stated with firm, well-thought-out, quiet reasoning. Hateful diatribe, ad hominem attacks and shouted rhetoric don't impress.

Oh. We don't have Tivo here.
Anyway, Jim reminded me that the OP link says it will be on EWTN in November. Yay.

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

The OP also says that it will be shown on various PBS stations throughout the country in the coming year. Maryland Public Television, which I receive via antenna, though imperfectly, is one of the first to show it. Not surprising, given the rather large Catholic population in Maryland.

We don't get EWTN. I won't pay $50 a month for TV service when I can get 90% of what I want for free. This costs us Mythbusters and Monday Night Football, but I can live with that sacrifice.

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Jeff Stevens

It is showing tonight is some places in the U.S. I saw here http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/wh ... tholicism/ .

I watch EWTN for free on my computer. I will be forever grateful to EWTN.

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

Out here in the remote hinterlands, antenna TV will only provide me with channel 62, the local county information channel. I can't even get cable. I have to rely on satellite TV for programming, which gives me waaay more channels than I want or need...

...except when foul weather rolls in and I can't get any just when I need weather info the most!

Ah, well! Such is the price of country living, which I am more than willing to pay. I have a battery powered lamp and lots of books, so i'm good for those rainy days!

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In Christ,

Jim B

I will consider your position if stated with firm, well-thought-out, quiet reasoning. Hateful diatribe, ad hominem attacks and shouted rhetoric don't impress.

I don't know if this makes any difference for you guys, but I didn't get a lot of channels at first with my antenna. Then, I hoisted the antenna onto the rectory roof, and now it stands probably about 25 feet in the air. That really helped a lot, and now I get quite a few channels from the antenna.

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Sincerely in Christ,
Fr. Angel

Father Angel, sitting in the neighbor to the north's field (who lives in Las Vegas — a local farmer tends to his acreage) sits an abandoned, vine-covered water windmill, sans blades and sitting over a long-dried up and filled-in well not a football field's length from my front door.



In the summer, it more resembles a tree than a man-made tool.



Though the blades have long-since succumbed to the vagaries of the harsh mid-western wieather, the tower itself, made of galvanized steel, is quite sturdy.

Long have I cast envious eyes on this tower that no longer serves a utilitarian purpose. Moved to my place and anchored to a concrete platform, with an antenna at the top, it would allow me to receive the Omaha and Saint Jo — and maybe even Kansas City — television stations and I would have no need for satellite.

One of these days I'm going to contact the owner of the farm about taking it off his hands. All it is for him and his share cropper is a nuisance in the middle of a row crop field.

To me, it would represent a $59 a month savings.

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In Christ,

Jim B

I will consider your position if stated with firm, well-thought-out, quiet reasoning. Hateful diatribe, ad hominem attacks and shouted rhetoric don't impress.

It was on this evening here in L.A. Unfortunately I was only able to watch the first 15 minutes. However, I noted in that short time that Jesus was referred to as a radical and a subversive.

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David L (CA)
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” - Groucho Marx

David L,

Well he was a radical and a subversive but I think it matters how they were using the terms.

Recently had an exchange with an FB "friend" of someone else who declared in no uncertain terms that Jesus was a liberal and even a socialist and made it clear with the "render unto Cesar" parable that Jesus was in favor of taxation ....he never responded to my reply which tends to happen when I use facts with some people.

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Valerie Garcia
vals1990@yahoo.com

"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him ....." St. Benedict

He was! And following Him today is! I love what Alice Cooper said, ""Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that’s a tough call. That’s real rebellion."

For people who can only watch Catholicism online, EWTN is starting to show it on 15 November: EWTN November Specials

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

Next week. Starting Wednesday on EWTN.

Catholicism Episode Listing

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

Grace,

Thanks for the info

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Valerie Garcia
vals1990@yahoo.com

"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him ....." St. Benedict

Father Barron has also released a book titled, "Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith" It is described as being paired with the documentary and he describes it as emerging from the scripts used for the series. I bought the book with a gift certificate, thereby breaking my new rule of not buying new books until I complete the 10 or so books that I need to read that are floating around my apartment, but sometimes rules are made to be broken!

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Valerie Garcia
vals1990@yahoo.com

"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him ....." St. Benedict

Val,
Did you see any of the episodes on your local TV station?

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

Grace,

No, that would have required turning on my TV which I virtually never do...and, I forgot.

I'm going to try to watch it online though I don't particularly care to watch things online.

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Valerie Garcia
vals1990@yahoo.com

"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him ....." St. Benedict

I got up before 6 a.m. to be able to watch it, and 30 minutes into Episode 2, my internet connection disappeared. Grr

BUT anyway what I saw, it is fantastic. The imagery that Fr Barron creates with his words and with the visuals is just beautiful.

For example, he compares the Church to a ship and then we see a picture of Notre Dame looking like it is moving down the Seine, and he notes how the flying buttresses look like oars.

It is not at all "just" a history of the Church, or a dry documentary. I think most people (?) will find something fresh about the way Fr Barron presents themes. The half hour I saw was so packed with ideas and images that I could hardly process it fast enough. He talked about (again the ship) and Noah hunkering down and then coming out again, and segued into John Paul II and the way he did that in Poland, how the Catholic Poles went underground, and then --- ah, when you see the part about John Paul going back to Poland as Pope-- it is awesome. Episode 2 talks about how the Church is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic.

I hope everybody watches this. It is great. Catholics will love it, and I wish non-Catholics would be open-minded enough to watch it.

Also pray for protection for Fr Barron. This project will seriously annoy someone.

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

Grace, is this on EWTN television?


Mary

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"Those who encounter the Risen Jesus
and entrust themselves docilely to him have nothing to fear.
This is the message that Christians are called to spread
to the very ends of the earth." Benedict XVI

Mary,
I'm watching it on my computer. It's free.
Today (Thursday) at 11 pm Eastern time they are showing Episode 3: Fr. Barron explores the ancient practices of the Church’s worship that endure to this very day, and shows how the Sacred Liturgy embodies the whole of the Faith in diverse places as Jerusalem, Rome, Chicago, Orvieto and Mexico City.

Here is the schedule:
http://www.ewtn.com/tv/NA_2011_Nov_Advance.asp

Here is the page I start from.
http://www.ewtn.com/tv/index.asp

Click on the box on the right side where it says:
WATCH TELEVISION LIVE
EWTN

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

Here's a schedule. (The big one turned out funny-looking when I tried to copy & paste).

Catholicism
Ep. 3: Thu. Nov. 17 at 11 PM ET & Sat. Nov. 19 at 4 PM ET
Ep. 4: Fri. Nov. 18 at 10 PM ET & Sat. Nov. 19 at 5 PM ET
Ep. 5: Fri. Nov. 18 at 11 PM ET & Sat. Nov. 19 at 6 PM ET
Ep. 1: Sat. Nov. 19 at 1 PM & 10 PM ET
Ep. 2: Sat. Nov. 19 at 2 PM & 11 PM ET


Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/tv/index.asp#ixzz1dzSDNoYK

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

Episode 3 is all about the Eucharist. I loved the examples given to show how reality and appearance can be quite different. One was that it looks to us like the sun travels across the sky, but in reality it doesn't. Fr Barron explains well about how words can change reality and that the Eucharist is not just symbolic. In the Gospel of John when Jesus asks, "Will you also go away?" after many followers left because of the hard teaching, I thought ... how Protestantism has left Jesus.

I have a question about something. It seemed to me that they showed a priest lifting the Chalice and the congregation clapping instead of somebody ringing the little bells. Is that a custom in some places? (I might have perceived wrongly).

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

Grace,

Part one is being aired at our parish on the 14th...I'm hoping to be able to attend that day though I'm not certain.

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Valerie Garcia
vals1990@yahoo.com

"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him ....." St. Benedict

Val,

Do try your best to go.

And encourage any RCIAers and Catechism kids to go. I wish I had lots of extra money: I would love to buy the set for the local Catholic school. If I were running a Catholic school, I would have all the kids see it around 6th grade and every 2 years after that.

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla