Arts News
Journeys to Justice: Reflections on Canadian Christian Activism by Joe Gunn (Novalis, 176 pages, softcover, $14.95 on amazon.ca)
Book review: Artist’s words would help her art
By MARIA DI PAOLO, Catholic Register SpecialMary and the Incarnation by Christine Granger (Novalis, 80 pages, softcover, $17.95)
TV Mass brings its legacy to national stage
By Mickey Conlon, The Catholic RegisterWhen Msgr. Brad Massman launched a Sunday Mass TV broadcast for shut-ins in 1987, its future was, at best, uncertain.
Euthanasia film strikes a raw human nerve
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA – Kevin Dunn first met Aurelia in the Netherlands at a conference on euthanasia for young people.
Long line of bishops help tell Toronto's story
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThere are many ways to tell the story of a city. In Extraordinary Ordinaries, Fr. Seamus Hogan explores aspects of Toronto’s history by examining the challenges, successes and even the blind spots of the 12 men who have served as the bishop or archbishop of Toronto.
World Youth Day contest invites young Catholic filmmakers
By Catholic News AgencyBook review: Fire Sermon flames out in tedious detail
By Kristina Glicksman, Catholic Register SpecialFire Sermon by Jamie Quatro (Anansi International, 256 pages, softcover, $17.96 on Amazon.ca)
Poet Patria Rivera explores her past with spiritual lens
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterIt started out in 2011 as a Lenten practice.
Q&A: Wim Wender's unexpected film on the Pope
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterIn a remarkable life that has progressed from studying film to reviewing films to making films, Wim Wenders has documented the lives of forgotten Cuban jazz musicians (in Buena Vista Social Club), explored the value of truth (in Paris, Texas) asked what really makes us human (in Wings of Desire) and shown us the value of making something, even something as impermanent as dance (in Pina).
Film shows Pope Francis is true to the Word
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAll of us who read this newspaper know that in the beginning was the Word. We all know that the Word was with God and the Word was God. But do we take this description of basic reality seriously enough to concede that the Word has real, practical meaning?
Book review: Jesuit history is ripe for the picking
By INDRE CUPLINSKAS, Catholic Register SpecialConscience of a Nation: Jesuits in English Canada (1842-2016), Jesuit History Series vol. 3., edited by Jacques Monet, S.J. (Novalis, softcover, 224 pages, $34.95)