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catholicnewsherald.com | June 9, 2017 CATHOLIC NEWS HERALD
Catholic radio network looks to expand in the Carolinas Rowan County station launched in April seeing success Kimberly Bender Online reporter
SALISBURY — The new Carolina Catholic Radio Network launched its first full-power commercial Catholic radio station in April and the newly formed group could be adding three more stations as soon as next month. Launched Holy Thursday, people along the I-85 corridor from Concord to Lexington can tune in to Catholic talk radio programming on 1490 AM WSTP. The radio station reaches Rowan County, including the areas covered by Sacred Heart Parish in Salisbury, St. Joseph Parish in Kannapolis, St. James the Greater Parish in Concord and Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in Lexington. Masses have been broadcast on the new station since Easter Sunday, and the area’s Prison Ministry reports that inmates
are listening to the Masses and EWTN broadcasting throughout the week, said David Papandrea, who serves as a “media missionary” for EWTN in the area. Sacred Heart Church’s pastor Father John Eckert will be developing a local program for debut in July. “We’ve had a really good response so far,” Papandrea said. “People are enjoying the broadcasts, as well as we’ve been approached by groups in other parishes that want to help get a station going in their area.” The Carolina Catholic Radio Network hopes to string together existing or dormant AM radio stations in the Charlotte and Greensboro regions to form North Carolina’s first fullpower commercial Catholic radio network. In order to expand with three more local AM stations and to broadcast more local content produced by the parishes, the network is in need of financial support, Papandrea said. “It is also our vision to build and archive a vast library of local content and make it available on our new website, CarolinaCatholicRadio.org,” he said. The network’s organizers have been in negotiations since November with a group of stations in the diocese that will allow Catholic programming to be heard along the I-85/485 corridor from the North and South Carolina
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state line to Greensboro, Papandrea said. “We estimate that 80 percent of the Charlottedesignated media market and 50 percent of the Triad (I-40 South) would have free access to EWTN/CCRN local Catholic radio,” he said. In order to expand, though, the network needs to know if ongoing underwriting support is available. “If we find the necessary support, we could flip the switch in July. We’d like to do it all at once for the next three stations. One to the west, one to the south and one to the east.” That would expand the network, which includes Belmont Abbey College’s WBACLPFM 101.5, to five stations. Belmont Abbey launched an FM station in February.
How you can help fund a new Catholic radio network Donations can be made online to www. CarolinaCatholicRadio.org or by mail to Carolina Catholic Radio Network, P.O. Box 1148, Clemmons, NC 27012-1148. For more information or sponsorship opportunities, contact David Papandrea at 704-8800260 or David.Papandrea@CarolinaCatholicRadio. org.
into her native realm, an event she takes as a signal that her race is being called to bring peace to humanity. Since her mother (Connie Nielsen), who is also the queen of the warrior women, disagrees, she undertakes the mission on her own. Guided by the agent, and with the support of a high-ranking government official in London (David Thewlis), she uses her military training to take on real-life German commander Gen. Ludendorff (Danny Huston) and the fictional, sinister scientist (Elena Anaya) who runs his chemical weapons program. Though director Patty Jenkins keeps the mayhem mostly free of gore, and the dialogue in Allan Heinberg’s script is unspotted by vulgarity, the sexuality that tinges the central romance, though restrained, makes the film best for grownups. Possibly acceptable for older teens. Frequent stylized violence with minimal blood, nonscriptural religious ideas, a scene of immodest behavior, at least one mild oath, a single crass term. CNS: A-II (adults); MPAA: PG-13
‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ Flashy but unsatisfying fifth installment in the theme park ride-based franchise that first set sail in 2003. This time out, series stalwart Johnny Depp, once again playing eccentric buccaneer Capt. Jack Sparrow, joins forces with a young science scholar (Kaya Scodelario) whose learning has led her to be charged with witchcraft and an equally youthful sailor. All three are seeking the same magical artifact, each for a different reason. They’re pursued by the British navy, by the ghost of one of Sparrow’s old adversaries (Javier Bardem) and by a living but one-legged freebooter. Directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg’s special effects-driven adventure is long on spectacle but short on human interest. Parents willing to overlook some adult punning may give mature teens the go-ahead to board; however, much action violence with little blood, a single gruesome image, occasional mature wordplay, at least one crass term. CNS: A-III (adults); MPAA: PG-13
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‘Wonder Woman’ Enjoyable adventure for the DC Comics superhero (Gal Gadot) takes her from her home environment, an island of Amazons isolated from the rest of the world, into the thick of World War I. Her involvement in the conflict follows the accidental intrusion of an American (Chris Pine) who’s spying for the British
When a disgraced Olympic swimmer (Zac Efron) joins the lifeguarding, and amateur sleuthing, team of the title, his selfish ways bring him into conflict with its longtime leader (Dwayne Johnson). Director Seth Gordon’s action comedy, adapted from the television series that began on NBC but had a longer life in syndication, succeeds neither as a pop-culture spoof nor as a crime-solving adventure. Though the film’s self-conscious flesh peddling is mostly just tiresome, its surfeit of low-minded humor eventually registers as degrading. Some gunplay and physical violence with momentary but extreme gore, several profanities and a few milder oaths, pervasive rough and crude language. CNS: O (morally offensive); MPPA: R
On TV n Friday, June 9, 6:30 p.m. (EWTN) “Iraq: Land of Saints and Martyrs.” Ironically, a country rich in Christian history where Sts. Thomas and Thaddeus brought the faith to the Assyrians and spawned thousands of churches and monasteries, the persecuted Church in Iraq pleads for support to survive. n Friday, June 9, 8 p.m. (EWTN) “Saint of Molokai.” Father Nathan Cromly, CSJ, and several young Catholic pilgrims travel to Hawaii and learn about St. Damien’s heroic ministry to those suffering with leprosy on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. n Saturday, June 10, 8 p.m. (EWTN) “Saint Philip Neri.” A two-part film on St. Philip Neri’s mission to catechize the poor and abandoned youth of Rome, and how they helped him grow in the virtues that eventually made him a saint. Part 2. n Tuesday, June 13, 8:30 p.m. (EWTN) “Fatima.” St. John PauI II travels to Fatima to thank Our Lady for sparing his life from the assassin’s bullets. Produced by Centro Televisivo Vaticano. n Friday, June 16, 8 p.m. (EWTN) “Fatima: Altar of World 1916-2000.” Featuring previously unpublished scenes of the beatifications of Jacinta and Francisco Marto, this documentary tells the story of the Fatima shepherds and the apparitions of Our Lady at the Cova da Iria. n Saturday, June 17, 9 a.m. (EWTN) “The Message of Fatima: The Second Apparition of Our Lady.” On June 13, 1917, Lucia and her cousins returned to the Cova da Iria to witness Our Lady’s second apparition and hear her call for mankind to make reparation for sins against the Immaculate Heart. n Saturday, June 17, 8 p.m. (EWTN) “Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God.” Pope John Paul I’s peasant origins, his years as a student and parish priest, and his sunny personality are some of the features in this movie. He succeeded Paul VI in 1978, serving as pontiff for only 33 days before his death. n Sunday, June 18, 4 p.m. (EWTN) “The Father Effect.” John Finch takes a deeper look at the profound effect fathers have on the lives of their children, and how children with absent fathers can find healing and forgiveness. n Friday, June 23, 1:30 p.m. (EWTN) “And a Child Shall Lead Them.” An insightful glimpse into the power and beauty of the Divine Mercy Devotion: through interviews with those involved in the canonization of St. Faustina, and members of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception.