James Bertram Reuter SJ BLD (/ˈrɔɪtər/ ROY-tərz; May 21, 1916 – December 31, 2012) was an American Jesuit Catholic priest who lived in the Philippines since he was 22 and taught at Ateneo de Manila University.

[2] Reuter later retired to the Xavier House in Santa Ana, Manila, before he was transferred to the Our Lady of Peace Hospital in Parañaque, where he remained until his death on New Year's Eve 2012.

Both Reuter and Peyton believed that 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 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.

[7] 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.

[citation needed] He served as the spiritual adviser to American Marine Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, an accused in the highly controversial Subic rape case.

[8] The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines officially announced Reuter's death at 12:51 PST (UTC+08:00) at the church-run Our Lady of Peace Hospital along Coastal Road in Parañaque.