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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

CatholicTV and Roku, Inc. Announce Partnership


Nation’s Premier Programmer of Faith-Based Content Now Available Via Roku Streaming Network

WATERTOWN, MA (February 29, 2012) -- The CatholicTV® Network and Roku announced that the two companies have officially launched CatholicTV on the Roku streaming platform. With CatholicTV on Roku, viewers across the nation will be able to instantly access the CatholicTV LIVE video stream and many CatholicTV shows for free beginning today.

CatholicTV content can now be streamed to viewers’ televisions, computers, tablets and mobile devices for convenient, on-demand viewing. Available on all Roku streaming players, The CatholicTV Network will join Roku’s large and growing collection of news and entertainment channels.

“For fifty-seven years, The CatholicTV Network has been a staple in millions of homes,” said CatholicTV President Father Robert Reed. “Beginning today, Roku customers across the world can stream CatholicTV LIVE along with some of our most endearing and exciting programming through their Roku players. Now our world-class network is more accessible than ever."

Roku is the leading streaming platform, delivering news and entertainment to more than two million customers in the U.S. The award-winning Roku players are renowned for their ease of use, value and selection of content. Roku players retail for as little as $49.00.
 
The CatholicTV Network provides family-friendly religious news and educational programming 24 hours daily and offers the Daily Mass, The Rosary, ground-breaking special programming such as Father Robert Barron’s series, Catholicism, Papal programming from around the world, and Catholic talk shows and news including This is the Day, and a new program for women and families, The Gist. Users will also have access to CatholicTV’s on-demand library.

“The CatholicTV Network continues use all forms of technology to expand our reach.  We are very excited about being added to the Roku channel lineup and look forward  to the possibilities  this technology presents us to continue to spread the message of CatholicTV,” said Jay Fadden, Executive Vice President and General Manager.


For more information on CatholicTV visit www.CatholicTV.com

Visit www.Roku.com to learn more about the Roku streaming platform and the partnership with CatholicTV.

Contact: CatholicTV

Shannon Muldoon
Public Relations Coordinator
617-923-0220

About the CatholicTV® Network:

Founded in 1955, CatholicTV Network is a national broadcast television network streaming a live feed 24 hours a day at CatholicTV.com. Heeding Pope Benedict XVI's call to greater utilize the power of television and new media, the CatholicTV Network features its cable TV station, Catholic web site, mobile apps and widget. Celebrate Mass online; pray The Rosary; enjoy programs on prayer, the saints, the Scriptures and the Catholic Church on America's Catholic Television Network.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Special Ceremonies for Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York

On Saturday, February 25, 2012, the CatholicTV® Network will air two special ceremonies at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, NY, to honor Timothy Cardinal Dolan. The prayer service will air LIVE at 10:30 a.m., and at 4 p.m., Cardinal Dolan will celebrate Mass which will also air LIVE on CatholicTV.

His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan was named Archbishop of New York by Pope Benedict XVI on February 23, 2009. He was installed as Archbishop of New York on April 15, 2009.

He had served as Archbishop of Milwaukee since he was named by Pope John Paul II on June 25, 2002. He was installed as Milwaukee's 10th archbishop on August 28, 2002, at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, Papal Nuncio to the United States, installed Archbishop Dolan.

Cardinal Dolan was ordained to the priesthood on June 19, 1976. He then served as associate pastor at Immacolata Parish in Richmond Heights, Mo., until 1979 when he began studies for a doctorate in American Church History at the Catholic University of America. Before completing the doctorate, he spent a year researching the late Archbishop Edwin O'Hara, a founder of the Catholic Biblical Association. Archbishop O'Hara's life and ministry was the subject of the Archbishop's doctoral dissertation.
 
On his return to St. Louis, Cardinal Dolan served in parish ministry from 1983-87, during which time he was also liaison for the late Archbishop John L. May in the restructuring of the college and theology programs of the archdiocesan seminary system.

In 1987, Cardinal Dolan was appointed to a five-year term as secretary to the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, D.C. When he returned to St. Louis in 1992, he was appointed vice rector of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, serving also as director of Spiritual Formation and professor of Church History. He was also an adjunct professor of theology at Saint Louis University.

In 1994, he was appointed rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome where he served until June 2001. While in Rome, he also served as a visiting professor of Church History at the Pontifical Gregorian University and as a faculty member in the Department of Ecumenical Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. The work of the Cardinal in the area of seminary education has influenced the life and ministry of a great number of priests of the new millennium.

On June 19, 2001 – the 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood – then Fr. Dolan was named the Auxiliary Bishop of St. Louis by Pope John Paul II. The new Bishop Dolan chose for his Episcopal motto the profession of faith of St. Peter: Ad Quem Ibimus, "Lord To Whom Shall We Go?" (Jn 6:68).

Cardinal Dolan served as chairman of Catholic Relief Services from January 2009 – November 2010. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of The Catholic University of America. He is also a member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization and the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.

On June 29, 2009, Cardinal Dolan received the pallium, a symbol of his office as an archbishop, from His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, at St. Peter's Basilica.

On November 16, 2010, Cardinal Dolan was elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He succeeds Cardinal Francis George of Chicago.

On January 6, 2012, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI announced that Cardinal Dolan was to be appointed to the College of Cardinals. He was elevated in the Consistory of February 18, 2012.

Tune in to CatholicTV on February 25, 2012, or on www.CatholicTV.com.

About the CatholicTV® Network:

Founded in 1955, CatholicTV Network is a national broadcast television network streaming a live feed 24 hours a day at CatholicTV.com. Heeding Pope Benedict XVI's call to greater utilize the power of television and new media, the CatholicTV Network features its cable TV station, Catholic web site, mobile apps and widget. Celebrate Mass online; pray The Rosary; enjoy programs on prayer, the saints, the Scriptures and the Catholic Church on America's Catholic Television Network.

Twitter: @CatholicTV

Contact: CatholicTV
www.CatholicTV.com  MA, 02472 US
Shannon Muldoon- Public Relations Coordinator
617-923-0220

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The CatholicTV® Network to Air Special Lenten Programming


During the season of Lent, the CatholicTV® Network will offer Lenten programming focusing on this solemn time of year. Enjoy original CatholicTV programming and specials from around the universal Church, concluding with Holy Week broadcasts from Notre Dame, Boston and Vatican City. Tune in for various special programming commemorating the death, burial and resurrection Jesus Christ.

Lenten programming will include special programming and broadcasts.

Each day after the Chaplet of Divine Mercy at 3 PM and after the Daily Mass rebroadcasts on CatholicTV, President of the CatholicTV Network, Father Robert Reed, will offer a Lenten reflection based on the book "A Lenten Journey with Jesus Christ and Saint Therese of Lisieux".

During Lent, the original CatholicTV "series", Blink, takes on a Lenten theme. Blink features Catholics from around the universal church sharing their belief and their wisdom. See a Lenten Blink segment with video from Catholic Relief Services for Operation Rice Bowl and reflections from Father Reed, Father Warren Savage and seminarians on Father Romanus Cessario’s “The Seven Last Words of Jesus.” Tune in for a new Blink on Wednesday at 7:30 PM each week during Lent.

The Seven Last Words of Christ, a series of reflections offered by the Gregorian Concert Choir from the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence, R.I., under the direction of Father Anthony Mancini will also air during the season of Lent.

Join priests, religious and members of the laity for the special Lenten series, ARISE. For six weeks, each half-hour show will feature readings and reflections on Lenten themes.

Journey with our blessed Lord on his way to Calvary in this classic Catholic mediation on the Passion of Christ. During Lent, three different versions of the stations of the cross air with hosts Father Reed, Msgr. John Zenz and Father Frank McFarland.

Msgr. Zenz, from the Archdiocese of Detroit, presents a mini-series examining the Sunday Gospel reading based on the Gospel of Mark. Actors play out the reading, followed by a theological reflection. Catch A Path to Glory on CatholicTV.

Tune into CatholicTV during Lenten season to see the great programming CatholicTV has in store. If you miss any of the CatholicTV Network’s Lenten programming you can also visit www.CatholicTV.com/Lent.

About the CatholicTV® Network:

Founded in 1955, CatholicTV Network is a national broadcast television network streaming a live feed 24 hours a day at CatholicTV.com. Heeding Pope Benedict XVI's call to greater utilize the power of television and new media, the CatholicTV Network features its cable TV station, Catholic web site, mobile apps and widget. Celebrate Mass online; pray The Rosary; enjoy programs on prayer, the saints, the Scriptures and the Catholic Church on America's Catholic Television Network.

Twitter: @CatholicTV

Contact: CatholicTV
www.CatholicTV.com  MA, 02472 US
Shannon Muldoon- Public Relations Coordinator
617-923-0220