CITVN DOCUMENTARY
ABOUT CITVN
CITVN is an exchange of gifts - CITVN is our gift to you!
501(c)3 nonprofit CITVN Cooperative is owned and operated by a Catholic Worker Movement intentional community of homeless and formerly homeless people labeled mentally ill. CITVN produces and distributes for free feature-length YouTube documentaries and webcast events focused through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching.
CITVN is a member of the Catholic Media Association
OUR MISSION
CITVN Coop is a nonprofit social cooperative corporation operated by the Dayton Catholic Worker Movement, an intentional community organized to provide support to homeless people and nurture cottage industry entrepreneurial business development for disadvantaged people. The coop has bootstrapped over 20 successful startups. 100% of tax preparation and book appraisal PayPal Charitable Giving donations help finance 501(c)3 nonprofit CITVN Coop Documentary Productions and are used to purchase monthly unlimited transit passes given freely to the homeless, removing a significant barrier to acheiving a sustainable life platform with human dignity
Prayer, Daily Mass and community ground our spirituality
"The Church is a home for everyone, especially the sinners,
and we are all sinners." ~ Pope Francis
The Catholic Worker Movement supports personalism, commutarianism, decentralized society, a green revolution and distributist economic theory. Our means are prayer, nonviolence, the works of mercy, manual labor and voluntary poverty. Our sources are the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as handed down in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, with our inspiration coming from the lives of the saints.
Audience
47,000+ subscribers, to include leadership in 13,000+ Catholic parishes, 20,000+ professors at 196 Catholic universities, seminaries and religious orders located in 76 countries.
CITVN produced a series of 36 live webcasts
presented by acadmic experts on
Environment and Sustainability
focused through the lens of
Laudato Si by Pope Francis
The Challenge of Jesus
John Dominic Crossan
Professor Emeritus
DePaul University
FOCUS
Our focus is to publish ideas, art and stories that will help CITVN's audience to have hope. This is the gift of community; to help people think they are not alone. CITVN is media for a culture of peace.
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Pope Francis, EVANGELII GAUDIUM - page 175
There also exists a constant tension between ideas and realities. Realities simply are, whereas ideas are worked out. There has to be continuous dialogue between the two, lest ideas become detached from realities. It is dangerous to dwell in the realm of words alone, of images and rhetoric. So a third principle comes into play: realities are greater than ideas. This calls for rejecting the various means of masking reality: angelic forms of purity, dictatorships of relativism, empty rhetoric, objectives more ideal than real, brands of ahistorical fundamentalism, ethical systems bereft of kindness, intellectual discourse bereft of wisdom.
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Perspectives
We interview homeless people
We interview academics and experts
We interview people in the pews
The goal of nonviolence is dialog
CITVN is a crossing of the bridge experience
Girl Scout and I sit every night and pray the rosary for the special intentions of our benefactors on a park bench in the
Rose Kennedy Garden with homeless people sleeping in
Columbus Park North End Long Wharf Boston Massachusetts
Catholic Workers are voluntarily poor - living with less so that others may live.
COOP EDITORIAL GUIDELINES
CITVN Cooperative may assist independent Catholic film producers in grantwriting, project development and distribution
The informal tests for selection of CITVN documentary projects include:
- no poverty porn that exploits somebody's suffering to achieve a political or economic goal;
- find Good News to announce that leads viewers towards hope by centering human dignity in suffering;
- do not publish anything that is intentionally and directly in opposition to the teachings of the Catholic Church (this was a line in the sand that Dorothy Day drew);
- accentuate the good thoughts of Bishops and ignore bad ideas;
- do not publish anything that harms the faith and morals of readers, i.e., elicits division, despair or provokes violence in a manner that leads people to a place where they can no longer see God or a way towards justice and solidarity; and,
- look for what's missing in our interests and relationships to elevate the lives of Catholics and all people of good faith..
CITVN is a member of the Catholic Media Association.
OUR CURRENT DOCUMENTARY PROJECT
Touring Boston on an Electric Mobility Scooter
with Service Beagle in Tow for Comic Relief
Some travel for discovery. Some travel for recreation. I travel for procrastination. To put off writing a book of spiritual significance, I roam the planet in an elaborate stall. One day it occurred to me that never since the beginning of time had the world been afforded the spectacle of a poor disabled man adventurous enough to undertake a tour of Boston on an electric mobility scooter. After much thought, I decided that I was a person fitted to furnish to mankind this spectacle. So, I determined to do it. I looked about me for the right sort of companion to accompany me in the capacity of agent, and finally selected my beagle Girl Scout for this service. It is my purpose to study Catholic culture, history, jazz, sports, culinary specialties, architecture, flora, animals, and art while touring your city. Girl Scout is in sympathy with me in this. She is as much of an enthusiast in food, culture, sports and the arts as I am, and not less anxious to learn how the idiom "wicked" is used properly. We walk with the poor.
The travelogue series may be of interest to our nation's 18,000,000 mobility-impaired citizens. The demographic includes 1-in-5 elderly persons, 3.6 million college students, 6 million veterans, and their families. There are no free comprehensive travel guides for poor mobility impaired citizens.
Underwriters may include Cities, Regional Transit Authorities, Archdioceses, universities, inner-city parishes, museums, zoos, aquariums, landmark parks, music venues, sporting events, restaurants, hotels, hostels, soup kitchens, homeless shelters and a culturally diverse selection of the more flamboyant local denizens.
Meet Our Executive Producer
Beagles don't care about ideology,
but what they do care about is important
This is Girl Scout. She is a psychiatric service dog. She helps with unseen disabilities, such as anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, depression, etc. These service animals are trained to sense anxiety attacks, depressive episodes, self harming behavior and help support their owner. These dogs have public access rights and certain travel and housing privileges as well.
Owning a Beagle is great fun, as they are sociable and mischievous, and their natural desire to please makes them easy to train. They do not care if their human is differently abled ... just love me.
I can say with a good measure of confidence,
it's love that cures addictions.
Mentally ill people are some of the poorest of people. They encounter discrimination in every market and social organization within society. Not infrequently they lose the support of family and friends. One-in-eight chronically homeless mentally ill people commit suicide each year. Pope Francis said we are, "God's privledged witnesses."
We are differently-abled
We have the capacity to love
We enjoy our mental illness very much
We are grateful for the kindness people.
