Over the years, SQPN has created many different offerings for our community: audio and video productions; conferences and meet-ups; training sessions and workshops, and we recently announced our first SQPN community pilgrimage to Rome in 2017. But we’ve found that the SQPN name doesn’t sufficiently describe the heart of what we do and what we’re […]

We have an exciting end of 2016 in store for you over the next three months. First, as you heard in Episode 1000 of The Break, Fr. Roderick announced that he will be leading an SQPN community pilgrimage to Rome in 2017. (Make sure to stay subscribed to this newsletter and to our social media […]

In part 1 of Fr. Roderick’s vlog, he is up for quite an adventure and gets lost at night during a thunderstorm. Will he make it to his hotel before the desk closes?

The whole Catholic world was in Krakow, Poland last week. Or so it might seem as several million young people and Pope Francis gathered in the hometown of Pope St. John Paul II for the World Youth Day celebrations he inaugurated.

On the first episode of our show “Let’s Talk“, the successor to our long-running Catholic Weekend series, we asked *you* to vote on the topic for the next show. The results of the vote are in, and you have chosen the topic of “wearable technology”! We carry around smart phones, activity trackers, tablets and smart […]

After nearly eight years of daily episodes, SQPN’s Verbum Domini show is coming to an end. Created by Brian Noe, produced for many years by David Sweeney and Pat Denny, and using the voices of numerous volunteer lectors, Verbum Domini provided each day’s Scripture readings used in the celebration of the Mass. Verbum provided a […]

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During the Christmas holidays, we have been going through the audio archives of SQPN to sort and to preserve the thousands of podcast episodes we have recorded over the years. We came across a special unedited episode of one of our most successful series, The Secrets of Harry Potter. In the series’ last episode, Lyn Francisco, Denise Roper and Ariadna Quijano talked about the music written by composer John Williams for the Harry Potter movies. Because of the extensive editing work that this special episode needed, it was ultimately never finished or published.

SQPN is seeking a highly experienced, motivated managing director (COO) to build and grow the organization. We’re looking for someone with a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university, who has five to ten years of experience working in non-profit management. The position is for one day per week.

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https://media.blubrry.com/jimmy_akins_mysterious_world/traffic.libsyn.com/sqpn01/SSW014.mp3Podcast: DownloadUpon close examination of the recent spy photos published on TMZ (link), I discovered a number of cool details that I almost overlooked! Here they are: See those octagonal elements on the floor? They have a shape that is almost identical to the back of an X-wing fighter. *Almost* identical. Because is that really […]

2013 in retrospect: the five most memorable moments for SQPN.

ROSWELL, GA (November 1, 2013) – Three podcasts of the Star Quest Production Network, a community of Catholic new media producers, have been nominated for the 9th Annual Podcast Awards. Daily voting starts today, November 1, and will close on November 15th at 2100 EST.

Monsignor Paul Tighe, the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, will be the keynote speaker at the Catholic New Media Conference in Boston on October 19, 2013.
Since his appointment by pope Benedict XVI in 2007, Monsignor Tighe has been involved in all the major new media initiatives of the Vatican.
We are looking forward to learning from his experiences in the field of new media and the new evangelization!