Arts News
The third and most ambitious staging yet of playwright Adam Seybold’s play The De Chardin Project begins with an image of sin. Fr. Teilhard De Chardin, played by Cyrus Lane, wakes up on a bare, black stage beside a broken tea cup. He doesn’t know where he is or how he got there and he can make out nothing of his surroundings except the broken china.
Padre Pio sculpture calls us to Confession
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterOn a trip to Italy 11 months ago Catholic artist Timothy Schmalz discovered the nation’s love for St. Padre Pio. Creator of the acclaimed Jesus the Homeless sculpture, Schmalz was soon inspired to create a work of art to honour the Italian saint.
‘People’s museum’ of human rights to open
By Aaron Epp, Catholic Register SpecialWINNIPEG - Carmela Finkel remembers feeling terrified.
Martin Scorsese to direct movie about Jesuit mission to 17th-century Japan
By Mark I. Pinsky, Religion News ServiceAlthough evangelical moviemakers have been in the spotlight lately with features such as Son of God and God’s Not Dead, at least one other prominent, mainstream director is also turning — or returning — to religion.
McLuhan award goes to Jesuit communicator
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Media guru Fr. John Pungente, S.J., has been fighting media illiteracy for half-a-century, and for his work the Marshall McLuhan Initiative has awarded Pungente and the Jesuit Communication Project the fourth annual Medium and Light Award for significantly contributing to religious communication.
Artist Hall’s latest work blessed at Saskatoon cathedral
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Canadian Catholic NewsSASKATOON - Toronto artist Sarah Hall was in Saskatoon as her latest work, housed in the Queen of Peace Chapel at the Cathedral of the Holy Family, was blessed by Bishop Donald Bolen.
Intrigue among the incense
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - A smoky stage and the distinct scent of incense set the scene for the Vatican in 1978. It’s a place where “everything is confidential and nothing is secret,” according to the sharp-witted play The Last Confession.
French Mass survives CBC cuts
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterCBC budget cuts in April that will cost more than 600 employees their jobs left the weekly Mass in French relatively unscathed.
Talking Green Spirit
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterWhen Canada’s Catholic bishops last year spoke out yet again on the environment they were hoping they wouldn’t have the last word on the subject. Now a Catholic video production company along with several parishes and religious orders are hoping to get Catholic students and parishioners talking with the launch of Green Spirit TV.
Taking you back to 33 days in 1978
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterThirty-three days into his papacy, Pope John Paul I was found dead. His sudden death in 1978 plunged Catholics and other Christians into what British actor David Suchet calls “absolute despair” and set the stage, literally, for the theatrical production of The Last Confession.
Polish culture, Catholic faith go hand-in-hand
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - When Poles want to introduce the world to Polish culture, it begins and ends with their Catholic heritage.