the most effective means of propagating the word of Christ, the messages of the Blessed Virgin Mary was through the use of emerging mass communication with the likes of radio, film, and television. Reuter submitted an unsolicited short drama for radio to Peyton in 1947 and it was used in the weekly broadcasts of the Family Theater radio shows that aired on the defunct American radio network Mutual Broadcasting System or MBS. The drama titled, "Stolen Symphony" was awarded as best drama by the Ohio State Awards. Reuter returned to the Philippines in 1948, and on his own established Family Theater Productions, duplicating the efforts of Peyton in the United States, he solicited free radio airtime on radio station KZPI and got named Filipino actors and actresses to volunteer their voices and acting talent to dramatize family oriented soaps and the praying of the Rosary. Reuter brought Family Theater to television in 1953, operating until the declaration of Martial Law on 23 September 1972, when media was forcibly shut and seized by the government of Ferdinand Marcos. During the Marcos dictatorship During the 14 year period of Ferdinand Marcos' authoritarian rule in the Philippines (which included the Martial Law period from 1972 to 1981, and the succeeding period in which Marcos lifted the formal declaration of Martial Law but retained most of his powers), Reuter worked to keep Catholic radio stations going, and to raise concerns about the abuses of the Marcos dictatorship. He also visited political detainees in the various Martial Law "detention centers" (which the administration did not call prisons), and pleaded with diplomats for the west to stop supporting Marcos' administration. Eventually, however, he was arrested and tried by the Marcos administration and then released under a vague amnesty. During the People Power Revolution, he was a key player in making sure that the Catholic AM station Radio Veritas, which was keeping the civilian demonstrators on EDSA updated about Marcos forces' movements, stayed on the air - even when government snipers managed to bring down Radio Veritas' initial broadcast transmission site. Broadcast work after the People Power Revolution With the restoration of democracy in 1986 and the establishment of the Fifth Philippine Republic, Reuter returned to television with a magazine-talk show programme, Family Rosary Crusade, that aired on ABS-CBN. Reuter served as the spiritual guide to the programme's weekly episodes, and until his death hosted another daily