Sr. Rose Pacatte, who is based in Culver City CA, around 9 miles from Hollywood, is the latest guest on Dr Chris Deacy’s Nostalgia Interviews podcast. Rose is from San Diego originally and we learn that she planned to be a Sister from a young age. She started the Pauline Center for Media Studies and in the interview, Rose talks about how she became a film critic.
Sister Rose Pacatte is a Roman Catholic sister. She entered the Daughters of St Paul in 1967 and has carried out the community’s ministry of evangelization using the modern means of communication since then, from book publishing, to advertising and filmmaking. Rose has traveled to 28 countries to teach and train leaders, catechists, in media mindfulness skills, theory and praxis since 1990, as well as spirituality and media culture. She has been teaching courses on communication, community (conflict resolution) and culture, for the University of Dayton’s Virtual Learning Community of Faith Formation since 2000. Rose also co-founded the National Film Retreat movement (Cinema Divina) in 2000.
Speaking about his latest interviewee, Chris says: “It was a real treat to catch up with Sister Rose Pacatte for my latest Nostalgia Interview. Sr. Rose talks about why she wanted to become a nun, setting up the Pauline Center for Media Studies, being a film critic, the influence of ‘The Searchers’ and ‘The Matrix’, why she isn’t interested in film ‘messages’, the role of violence and Holocaust movies, ‘Nomadland’, why Mel Gibson didn’t like the way she reacted to ‘The Passion of the Christ’, the differences between ‘The Nun’ and ‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose’, being diagnosed with MS, and the difference between hope and optimism.”