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CatholicTV Network to Air Lenten Retreat Guides

The CatholicTV Network will air Retreat Guides from Regnum Christi Spirituality Center with Father John Bartunek.

The Regnum Christi Spirituality Center creates and produces life changing Catholic formation materials in many different media formats. The RC Spirituality Center serves clergy and laity, individuals, groups, and parishes. More information can be found at www.rcspirituality.org.

Fr. John Bartunek, LC, S.Th.D, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. After college he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and baseball coach. He then spent a year as a professional actor in Chicago before entering the religious Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ in 1993. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 2003 and earned his doctorate in moral theology in 2010. He provided spiritual support on the set of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ while researching the 2005 Catholic best seller, Inside the Passion, the only authorized, behind-the-scene explanation of the film.

The RC Spirituality Center Retreat Guides with Father John Bartunek will air during Lent on Mondays at 10:30PM ET and Thursdays at 5PM ET on CatholicTV and CatholicTV.com.

The CatholicTV Network Launches New Website

The CatholicTV Network launches its new website, on January 15, 2014. The website has been designed using the latest technology with the user experience in mind.

The CatholicTV Network invites viewers to explore the new enhanced website with improved functionality, offering viewers worldwide a broad range of faith based programming available online as well as a 24/7 live stream.

“After two years of thought and work, the new web presence for The CatholicTV Network is live, said the network President, Father Robert Reed. “The site has been designed to target our growing viewership online and projects a clean and professional appearance which is dynamically elegant. Our focus is on image and video, telling the story of individual Catholics and the Church Universal.”

CatholicTV.com is designed to become the premier destination for Catholics, keeping viewers up-to-date with Vatican events and programming from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and parishes nationwide. The CatholicTV Network broadcasts programming relevant to Catholic viewers, including live religious services, talk shows, devotional programs, educational programming, entertainment, and children's programs.

New content is added to CatholicTV.com daily. The CatholicTV Network is also available on all mobile devices for iOS and Android.

CatholicTV Network’s Holy Week Broadcast Schedule

Mass from the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame live at 10AM ET; Mass with the Holy Father from the Vatican at 11:30AM ET and 8PM ET; Mass from San Antonio’s San Fernando Cathedral at 4PM ET, and Mass from Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross with His Eminence Seán Cardinal O’Malley at 7PM ET.

Tuesday, March 26
The Chrism Mass from Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross with His Eminence, Seán Cardinal O’Malley, will broadcast live at 11AM ET and rebroadcast at 4PM ET.

Holy Thursday, March 28
Masses will be broadcast at the following times:

The Vatican Chrism Mass with broadcast at 11AM ET, the Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Last Supper from Cathedral of the Holy Cross at 7:30PM ET.

Good Friday, March 29
The Stations of the Cross will broadcast at 12PM ET and 6PM ET; Liturgy of Good Friday with Cardinal O’Malley from the Cathedral of the Holy Cross will broadcast at 3PM ET; and the Vatican Good Friday service will broadcast at 5PM ET.

Holy Saturday, March 30
The Way of the Cross from the Coliseum in Rome will broadcast at 10:30AM ET; the Vatican Easter Vigil at 4PM ET (rebroadcast at midnight); The Great Vigil; first Mass of Easter with Cardinal Seán O'Malley will broadcast at 8PM ET (rebroadcast at 3:30AM); and the Mass from the National Basilica Mass from Washington, D.C. scheduled at 11:30PM.

Easter Sunday, March 31
Masses will be broadcast at the following times:

Mass on CW56 at 7AM ET (rebroadcast on CatholicTV at 7PM.); Notre Dame’s Easter Sunday Mass live at 10AM; Vatican Easter Sunday Mass at 11:30AM ET and 9PM ET; The Papal Easter Blessing at 3:30PM and 8PM; and Easter Mass from San Antonio at 4PM.

‘Don’t give a !#@?#’ about curse words on TV? You should

Have you noticed all the “harmless” curse words on TV and in video games? If so, it should come as no surprise that studies are showing children who hear that cursing pick up the profanity themselves – and tend to exhibit more aggressive behavior than youngsters who don’t watch profane TV or play video games containing curse words.

“It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that children are going to emulate what they see and hear on TV, in the movies, and in video games,” said Teresa Tomeo, the bestselling author and syndicated radio host whose newest book is EXTREME MAKEOVER. “When we talk about violence in the media for example, we know that there are a number of studies that show at least a casual connection to violence in the media and aggressive behavior in children.”

One of the most recent, from Brigham Young University, revealed that youngsters who are exposed to profanity in the media tend to use it themselves, and exhibit more aggressive behavior. After studying a sample of 223 middle-school students in Missouri and applying statistical models to the results, the BYU researchers concluded that exposure to profanity was little different than exposure to violence on TV or in video games.

“This latest report regarding the impact of children’s exposure to bad language in media is alarming,” Tomeo said. “Not only are those children exposed to profanity more likely to use it themselves, but they are also likely to become more aggressive toward others. This is just another strong reminder for parents to develop and enforce media guidelines in the home."

In EXTREME MAKEOVER, Tomeo discusses the pervasiveness of media in today’s culture and talks about ways that women and their families can make an “extreme media makeover” to rid themselves of the messages and toxic images that bombard them daily and seek to destroy their basic human dignity.