Arts News

Ron McCrorie is seeking a new home for Josyp Terelya’s Divine Mercy painting that he commissioned from the artist in 2004.

Wanted: church home for the Divine Mercy

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TORONTO - Roger McCrorie is searching for the perfect home to hang his treasured Josyp Terelya rendition of the Divine Mercy.

Caroline Pignat, seated at third from left, with her writer’s craft class at All Saints Catholic High School in Kanata, Ont. Pignat has just won her second Governor General’s Literary Award, which she will receive at a Dec. 2 ceremony at Rideau Hall.

Award-winning author inspires Catholic students

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Caroline Pignat was teaching her Grade 12 writer’s craft class, doing the daily morning prompt and getting ready to start a new unit on script writing. It was like any other morning.

Kathleen Morris’ Nuns With Children is one of works on display at the Colours of Jazz exhibit at Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibit of works by The Beaver Hall Group runs through January.

Nuns among the nudes at Montreal art exhibit

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MONTREAL - Two paintings of Montreal’s St. Patrick’s Basilica bathed in the amber glow of a late winter afternoon serve as something of a muted introduction to the Colours of Jazz, a dynamic exhibition of artwork turning heads in Montreal.

A funny thing happened in that Joke with the Pope contest …

A funny thing happened in that Joke with the Pope contest …

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The Joke with the Pope contest is over and the winner is … a rabbi.

Joseph Szekeres

Faith overcomes doubt in moment of trial

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“Where there is doubt, faith.”

How ABC’s ‘The Muppets’ killed Jim Henson’s vision of making the world a kinder place

How ABC’s ‘The Muppets’ killed Jim Henson’s vision of making the world a kinder place

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The Muppets are back — and they’re having a lot of sex.

St. Philip Neri

Philip Neri’s ‘mysticism’ bursts forth in love

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Over the exactly 500 years since the birth at Florence of Philip Neri, each age has fashioned a portrait of the saint in colours suggested by its own needs, fashions, tastes. There is an Italian baroque Philip, for example, all miracles and raptures and surprises. The Enlightenment gave us Goethe’s anti-establishment, sceptical Philip, while 19th-century Catholic romanticism proposed a pious “reformer from within” for veneration.

Visitors to the Vatican Museums will be able to pick their favourite pieces and chat with other enthusiasts with a new app.

New Vatican arts app highlights museum pieces, restoration

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VATICAN CITY - The Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums has released a smartphone app to help culture enthusiasts learn about the works owned by the Holy See — and as a novel way of encouraging art lovers to help fund restoration.

Fr. Raju Chebattina, left, and Fr. Paul Batchilder of St. Mary’s Missionary Church in Souris, P.E.I.

‘Fish-out-of-water’ priest fodder for CBC comedy

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Fr. Rajumr Chebattina got his 15 minutes of fame in early July when he was featured with Fr. Paul Batchilder on CBC’s new summer series, Still Standing.

Melvin Menjivar prepares to go on air at Radio Positiva in Marianella Garcia Villa, El Salvador.

The positives of radio

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In a nation where violence is no stranger to its youth, a group of Salvadoran teenagers stand as a hope for their country’s future.

Jesus at the end of His Sermon on the Mount from the Missionaries of the Poor’s production of The Messiah.

Joyful service takes on a reggae beat

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TORONTO - Toronto has never heard the Gospel told like this.

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