TV Show Idea

[DeniseR]

I wasn’t sure where to post this but I figured it’s a media topic so I thought I would try “In the News” forum.

There has been a lot of interest in religious topics, especially Catholic, lately (The Passion, new of JPII and BXVI, The da Vinci Code, Time magazine cover stories, and the new TV show Revelations and Medium, etc…) Radio and TV (EWTN and Relevant Radio and Ava Maria) are starting to have an impact as well.

My idea is for someone true to the Catholic Church to produce a weekly TV show on network television in the news magazine format of Dateline or 48 Hours or an interesting documentary on Miracles of the Church. There are so many Eucharistic miracles and apparations that would fascinate the average person if presented in a serious and true manner. The miracle of Fatima is one example. A true Catholic would have to produce and control the subject and edit for content. Any thoughts?

 

[Friar_David_O.Carm]

DeniseR:

I wasn’t sure where to post this but I figured it’s a media topic so I thought I would try “In the News” forum.

There has been a lot of interest in religious topics, especially Catholic, lately (The Passion, new of JPII and BXVI, The da Vinci Code, Time magazine cover stories, and the new TV show Revelations and Medium, etc…) Radio and TV (EWTN and Relevant Radio and Ava Maria) are starting to have an impact as well.

My idea is for someone true to the Catholic Church to produce a weekly TV show on network television in the news magazine format of Dateline or 48 Hours or an interesting documentary on Miracles of the Church. There are so many Eucharistic miracles and apparations that would fascinate the average person if presented in a serious and true manner. The miracle of Fatima is one example. A true Catholic would have to produce and control the subject and edit for content. Any thoughts?

My only issue with this is that these miracles and apparations are extras. They are not part of the deposit of the faith, no one is required to believe in them.

I think it is wrong to use these sort of things in evangelism or apologetics.

Then there is the issue of the Church’s ruleing on said miracles and apparations. You would be surprised but I believe that the ones that are approved are very small in comparison to the numbers of reported events.

 

[Lucania]

It won’t work in the MSM as they are for the most part left-leaning media outlets. They would never promote any organized religion like the Catholic Church in a good light,imo. To them organized religion especially Catholic is oppressive/bad. The honeymoon we saw in the media recently was short lived, don’t expect anything good beyond that. That is the way I see it, sorry to say. They think they are more enlightened than us anyway. It just would not fly. Last night I noticed MSNBC had a special about the Da Vinci Code. There will be plenty of that stuff all over the networks especially with Ron Howard making a movie about it and starring Tom Hanks.

 

[SaintlySinner]

I think these extras are a great idea to evangelize! They are what helped to make me a believer. Like it or not, there are Thomas’s in this world who need to see, and I think thats why its a slap to the Lord for people to dismiss his miracles simply on the basis of “we aint required to believe”…too many take that as a reason to blow these awesome miracles off altogether…and THAT is like telling God, he is wasting his time on them… :twocents:

 

[DeniseR]

SaintlySinner:

I think these extras are a great idea to evangelize! They are what helped to make me a believer. Like it or not, there are Thomas’s in this world who need to see, and I think thats why its a slap to the Lord for people to dismiss his miracles simply on the basis of “we aint required to believe”…too many take that as a reason to blow these awesome miracles off altogether…and THAT is like telling God, he is wasting his time on them… :twocents:

Exactly. Miracles don’t have an explanation that people can easily grasp - that’s why they are miracles! Tens of thousands of people saw the sun spin on October 13, 1917 in Fatima, Portugal (if I have my date correct). Reporters who were originally skeptical reported what they eyewitnessed. The miracles from the intersession of saints are many.

People are looking for something to believe in that is superior to themselves. Call it mysticism or spirituality or whatever you want. God has built in all of us a desire to know him.

As for if the MSM will go along with it or not… It would need a good salesman to sell it and once it produced money for a network they would welcome it. It would be a stretch to assume it would be easy but anything is possible with prayer.

Pope John Paul urged all of us to use the media and Catholics have been stepping forward to do so to evangelize. I’m not the right person to sell and produce such a venture but someone out there is. Look at what Mel Gibson did!

 

[snowgarden]

I’d love to see a magazine style tv show on EWTN like the old Evening Magazine back in the 80’s. We had a Catholic show on local tv back then that was also magazine style called “Real to Reel” that focused on the lives of Catholics. It had Msgr. Charles B. Mynaugh and Jane Rudolph Treacey (later on QVC) to introduce stories. I remember one was about Arlo Guthrie and his conversion (he later turned to something else!) and another was a family that adopted an “unwanted” child with hydroenchephaly. Some of the segments were produced locally and others were packages from other Catholic localities.

And remember the Insight series with Paulist Father Ellwood (Bud) Kieser on Sunday mornings. Was it national? It had all kinds of whimsical stories with big name movie stars.

 

[SaintlySinner]

I’d be happy just to see new programming period on EWTN. I am getting bored with their extreme repeats and old stiff from the 1950s (except Bishop Sheen of course) I watched the Papal election from the Vatican, but now I am officially tired of seeing an “encore” presentation of it… enough is enough already… there, I said it.