Rose Pacatte, FSP

Los Angeles - Charter Member - National Catholic Reporter - Pauline Center for Media Studies, SIGNIS, CIMA

Sister Rose Pacatte, FSP, D.Min., is an award-winning film critic for the National Catholic Reporter (since 2009) and St. Anthony Messenger (since 2003). She has also co-written five books on film and scripture with Peter Malone as well as biographies of Martin Sheen and Corita Kent. She has served on Catholic and ecumenical juries at the Venice, Berlin, Cannes and Locarno Film Festivals. Rose is also a Tomatometer-approved critic at Rotten Tomatoes.

A Daughter of St. Paul, a media literacy education specialist, and the founding director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies, Sister Rose is a charter member of the ICFCA.

She also maintains the “Sister Rose at the Movies” blog on Patheos.

She is an award winning author and of books on film, scripture, and media literacy education. Published in 2015, her most recent book is Martin Sheen: Pilgrim on the Way.

Sister Rose is a member of SIGNIS and serves as the president of Catholics in Media Associates in Los Angeles.

She teaches courses on media literacy for catechists and adults. A world traveler, she gives presentations and courses on media literacy around the globe.

She has a bachelor’s in liberal arts with concentrations in catechetics and communications, a masters in media studies from the Institute of Education, University of London, and a certificate in pastoral communication from the University of Dayton. There she has created courses and facilitates them for the school’s virtual learning community.

Sister Rose is a member of the Catholic Speakers Organization, or CatholicSpeakers.com. She resides in Los Angeles.

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Read her reviews at the National Catholic Reporter.

Read her bio at the Pauline Center.

Read her Patheos blog.