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![Rosanna Riverso’s Oct. 8 concert at St. Paul’s Basilica will help fund a tutoring program for at-risk students at St. Paul’s Catholic School. (Photo by Michael Swan) Rosanna Riverso](/images/stories/arts/arts10/riverso.jpg)
When Rosanna Riverso strides out in front of her audience at St. Paul’s Basilica Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. she will have the reassurance of piano, bass, guitar and percussion backing her up. But she will be singing on behalf of kids who don’t necessarily have any back-up.
Bible inspiration for Chinese art exhibit
By Luc Rinaldi, The Catholic Register![kk_acceptance](/images/stories/arts/arts10/kk_acceptance.jpg)
“The Eternal Wisdom — Tao,” an art exhibition running Aug. 21-26, is Kwan and Cheng’s chance to let others share in this exploration. The six-day event, held at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto, will showcase their Catholic Chinese art and calligraphy.
Frank Runyeon delivers Scripture the way it was meant to be
By Luc Rinaldi, The Catholic Register![Frank Runyeon](/images/stories/arts/runyeonweb.jpg)
In a “more modern and secular world that holds a media-driven mindset, ignoring or even rejecting the values Jesus taught,” Hollywood TV star Frank Runyeon shows no shame in his faith. Instead, he uses his talents and industry experience to spread the same message Jesus was preaching 2,000 years ago.
Icon course at Living Water College
By Carolyn Girard, The Catholic Register![Living Water College](/images/stories/arts/arts10/livingwater.jpg)
The program, which runs from July 18-30 will be taught by Frank C. Turner, the school’s director of fine arts, who studied for many years under Vladislav Andreyev, a contemporary master iconographer, and Fr. Gianluca Busi of Bologna, Italy.
Music helps singer find her inner peace
By Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register![Singer Rosanna Riverso with Sony Recording artists The Priests. Riverso was a soloist at the show The Priests performed in December at Toronto’s St. Paul’s Basilica. (Photo courtesy of Rosanna Riverso) Singer Rosanna Riverso with Sony Recording artists The Priests. Riverso was a soloist at the show The Priests performed in December at Toronto’s St. Paul’s Basilica.](/images/stories/arts/arts10/riversorosannathepriests.jpg)
“I think we live in a very fast-paced society and even right now, today, are facing a lot of economic, social and spiritual strife,” Riverso told The Catholic Register.
To that end, Riverso has organized the Peace Concert Tour that will take place in three Catholic churches in Southern Ontario. The first concert is on June 6 at Oakville’s St. Matthew’s Catholic Church. The following concerts will be held at Hamilton’s St. Margaret Mary’s Catholic Church on Sept. 19 and Oct. 8 at Toronto’s St. Paul’s Basilica.
Play tries to bring redemption to the urban underside
By Carolyn Girard, The Catholic Register![A scene from The Ultimate Sacrifice, a Gospel musical opening at the Panasonic Theatre June 25. (Photo courtesy of Exousia Media Group) A scene from The Ultimate Sacrifice, a Gospel musical opening at the Panasonic Theatre June 25.](/images/stories/arts/arts10/thehumanexperience.jpg)
Those sessions are just one reason Lopez calls her role in the Gospel musical a blessing.
Lorraine Williams' two vocations
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterMARKHAM, Ont. - If Marshall McLuhan says you ought to be on the left bank of the Seine writing, perhaps you should book a trip to Paris and buy a leather-bound notebook. But that’s not what Lorraine Williams did after her famous English professor told her he thought she might have a career as a writer.
Not that she didn’t appreciate McLuhan’s encouragement of her very young self as she sipped wine at a reception following graduation from Toronto’s University of St. Michael’s College in 1953.
Cambridge artist's monstrance a gift to Benedict XVI
By Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register![Pope Benedict XVI accepts a monstrance from Cambridge, Ont., artist Achim Klaas. Klaas gave the Pope the bronze-cast monstrance after a general audience April 21. (Photo courtesy of Achim Klaas) Pope Benedict XVI accepts a monstrance](/images/stories/arts/arts10/monstrance.jpg)
But that’s exactly what happened April 21 when Klaas, 59, met Pope Benedict XVI and gave him the monstrance as a gift just days after the official celebration of the Pope’s five-year pontificate.
The Richard family’s love of music, each other, shines on CD
By Carolyn Girard, The Catholic Register![The Richard family recently released the CD Calling You. The Winnipeg family has been called the “Catholic Von Trapps” by some. (Photo courtesy of the Richard family) The Richard family](/images/stories/Music/richardsfamily.jpg)
The Richards recently produced a CD of their own religious music — composed, arranged, performed and sung by the entire family.
Documentary shows Canadian connection in Peruvian mining conflict
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register![Devil's Operation](/images/stories/arts/arts10/deviloperation.jpg)
The Devil Operation, produced and directed by Canadian filmmaker and journalist Stephanie Boyd, adds to a list of recent documentaries that feature a Canadian connection, mining, human rights violations and environmental disaster, including Return to El Salvador, the story of how a protester against a Canadian mine turned up dead, and Under the Rich Earth which explores the use of private paramilitary squads by Canadian mining companies in Ecuador.
Music a big part of Fr. Robbie McDougall's ministry
By Carolyn Girard, The Catholic Register![Fr. Robbie McDougall continues to play music in his ministry as a priest. (Photo courtesy of Fr. Robbie McDougall) Fr. Robbie McDougall](/images/stories/Music/frMcdougall.jpg)
Thirteen years later he would be ordained to the priesthood and for the past 21 years has been leading scores of people across Canada in retreats, parish missions, workshops and Christian concerts.
Fr. Robbie McDougall is a priest based in the Manitoba archdiocese of St. Boniface. He founded a ministry more than 20 years ago to combine his love for sacred music and evangelization.