The 48th Friday Film Festival, presented by Tablet columnist Father Robert Lauder and the diocesan School of Evangelization, kicked off last weekend and continues through Oct. 17.
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Father Lauder’s Friday Film Festival Begins March 21
Father Robert Lauder and the Office of Faith Formation will present the 47th annual Friday Film Festival at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, starting March 21 with the film “The Mortal Storm.” There is a suggested donation of $25 for the series or $6 per film. For tickets and full details, send a self-addressed stamped […]
Friday Film Festival and Current Film Ratings
Father Robert Lauder and the Office of Faith Formation began their Friday Film Festival at Immaculate Conception Pastoral Center, Douglaston, on Sept. 6 with the showing of “For Greater Glory,” the story of religious persecution in Mexico in the early 20th Century. The film starred Andy Garcia and Peter O’Toole. The festival continues with the […]
Tearless Compassion
by Father Robert Lauder Recently, I gave a talk on compassion. In preparing the talk, the first thing I did was to look up a definition of compassion in a dictionary. I read the following: “sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity.” The […]
Marcel on Love
by Father Robert Lauder Second in a Series I FIND THE philosophy of existentialist personalist Gabriel Marcel very attractive. It speaks very much to my experience. For Marcel, hope, love and fidelity were important human acts that led a person into the realm of value, of what really matters, of what Marcel called the mystery of being. […]
Gabriel Marcel: My Second Favorite Philosopher
by Father Robert Lauder First in a Series MY FAVORITE philosopher is St. Thomas Aquinas. Of course, Thomas was primarily a theologian, but within his writings, there is a great deal of philosophy. When I studied undergraduate philosophy in the seminary, all the courses had a Thomistic emphasis, and this was also true of […]
Discussion Groups on Films And Catholic Novels
by Father Robert Lauder Fourth in a series IN PREVIOUS COLUMNS, I have mentioned how many discussion groups I have been involved with as a priest during the last 50 years. Reflecting on the important role that both Catholic novels and films have played in my own education, I was wondering about how I might […]
Fiction and Faith
by Father Robert Lauder BECAUSE THE READING of them has played a large role in my own education, I have been trying for the last 25 years to encourage people to read Catholic novels. By a Catholic novel I mean a novel whose theme is based on some Catholic dogma, or some Catholic sacramental principle or Catholic […]
Literature, Faith and Death
by Father Robert Lauder Second in a series IN THE MAY 3 issue of Commonweal, Alice McDermott had a very provocative essay entitled “Redeemed from Death? The Faith of a Catholic Novelist.” Though well acquainted with how some Catholics think — about women priests, contraception, homosexuality, the death penalty, just and unjust wars, gun rights and […]
Shedding the Light of Faith on Homeless Teenagers
by Father Robert Lauder A few days ago, I found in my room a copy of the small book, Sometimes God Has a Kid’s Face (Covenant House, 2010, pp. 111), written by Sister Mary Rose McGeady, D.C. I was trying to clean my room just a little bit and I found the book amidst some […]