Radical Kindness (2014)

For all who knew him, John Sheridan radiated a fullness of humanity. Radical Kindness tells the compelling story of a Monsignor John V. Sheridan, whose saintly life as a priest in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles gave spiritual strength to all who knew him. The film traces mosignor Sheridan's childhood in Ireland, his youthful brush with death and decision to accept God's call to ordination, his days as a young parish priest in Los Angeles, and his work as a writer and distinguished service as Director of the Catholic Information Center in downtown L.A. His forty-five years of service as a parish priest and Pastor at Our Lady of Malibu are highlighted, where he embodied loving attention to others, humor and humility, and where he prayed daily, with the Psalmist, "Quid retribuam? What can I give?" Like a contemporary St. John Vianney - the only diocesan priest yet to be canonized, and patron of parish priests - Monsignor Sheridan touched the lives of countless people. Through video, photographs, selected writings, and narration by his dear friend Martin Sheen, Radical Kindness asks and strives to answer the question: What does the life of John Sheridan tech us in ous own calling to holiness, our calling to be fully human?