Arts News

Virgin Mary and Christ Child stained glass at St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church in London, Ont., created in 1983 by artist Christopher Wallis.

Western University project aims to preserve stained glass

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Dr. Cody Barteet quickly became fascinated by the art and craft of stained-glass production when he joined St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church in London, Ont., over a dozen years ago.

Hollywood heavy hitters push Hallow higher

Hollywood heavy hitters push Hallow higher

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Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minn., is seen speaking at the spring general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore in this June 11, 2019, file photo.

Boldly going to frontier of ‘science and religion’

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Are science and religion fundamentally opposed to each other? That common notion has “worked a lot of mischief,” said Bishop Robert Barron, who launched a new conference Jan. 13-14 to show how the Catholic Church champions “the unity of faith and reason.”

Pope Francis waves to members of the Vincentian religious orders and lay communities Nov. 9, 2022, after blessing Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz' new sculpture, Sheltering. The statue, which features a dove laying a blanket over a homeless person, will be used in conjunction with a Vincentian project to build homes for some 10,000 people in 160 countries.

Pope blesses Schmalz’s begging statue'

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Pope Francis blessed a statue by renowned Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz that will be used in conjunction with a Vincentian Fathers and Daughters of Charity project to build homes for 10,000 people. 

After two long years, the Canadian Badlands Passion Play was back in the natural amphitheatre bowl outside Drumheller, Alta.

Badlands Passion Play makes triumphant return

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Following two summers of cancellations brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian Badlands Passion Play returned each Friday, Saturday and Sunday July 1 through 17 to dramatize the epic life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Pieter Claeissens the Elder’s Moses Breaking Pharaoh’s Crown is part of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s European Collection, c. 1530-1572. Oil on panel, gift of Joey and Toby Tanenbaum, 1995. © Art Gallery of Ontario 95/138

AGO exhibit marks our mortality

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When Pieter Claeissens the Elder was painting Moses Breaking Pharaoh’s Crown, Europe was entering a complex and confusing period of continual warfare. The crude version of this history blames it all either on Catholics trying to wipe out Protestants or Protestants trying to eliminate Catholics. Actually, it had more to do with money, geo-politics, empire, trade and a ruling class that was deeply incompetent.

Mary, Queen of Scots, right, and Queen Elizabeth I.

Exhibit tells history in ‘Royal Cousins, Rival Queens’ words

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LONDON -- In a basement of London’s stately British Library, the light plays through interconnected rooms on a glittering array of paintings, jewels and statuettes, encased amid ancient books, manuscripts and letters.

St. Luke’s Church, left, built in 1895 in Downeyville, Ont., remains at the heart of what was once a stauch Irish Catholic town in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes region.

Remembering town’s Irish, Catholic past

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The hamlet of Downeyville in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes region is a very different town from when author and community historian Dan Sullivan grew up there in the 1950s and ’60s.

R.H. Thomson as Matthew Cuthbert in Anne With an E.

Actor sees similarities between Dickens’ age and today

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Celebrated Canadian actor Robert Holmes (R.H.) Thomson is about to step back into his element after a pandemic-induced hiatus.

Aaron LaVigne as Jesus and the ensemble from Jesus Christ Superstar, touring again 50 years after the original first hit the stage.

'Superstar' resurrected for 50th anniversary

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Count Fr. Paul Massel among the Canadian theatre lovers hyped for the return of Jesus Christ Superstar, now on stage in Toronto.

El Greco’s Penitent Magdalene With the Cross (1576-78), left, was one of the works central to Pablo Picasso’s formation. Such faithful renderings influenced Picasso’s work.

The Catholic Picasso

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When Pablo Picasso said “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls,” it wasn’t a casual remark. Picasso thought a lot about his own soul, the soul of the Spanish nation, the soul of 20th-century modern art, and he thought about it in very Catholic terms.

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