Article: Small miracles of the soul: awards alarm entertainment that dignifies. (Ministries).(Bill Moyers on Father Ellwood "Bud" Keiser)

Bill Moyers got it right when he described the essence of the Paulist Fathers' ministry to moviedom as not "bellyaching" but "affirmation."

On the stage of the Universal City Hilton this summer, Paulist Productions director Fr. Frank Desiderio nodded in agreement. The setting was the Paulists' annual Humanitas Prize awards--the Catholic version of an Oscar ceremony. PBS reporter and storyteller Moyers--who won the first Humanitas Prize for documentaries in 1977--told the assemblage of big screen and little screen greats and lesser-knowns that the Paulists' initial Hollywood presence, the late Paulist Fr. Ellwood "Bud" Kieser, "believed he was here to do battle ...

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