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Jim Caviezel, centre, prepared to play Luke through and receiving the Eucharist.

Prayer, Eucharist prepares Jim Caviezel for latest biblical role

Since he shot to fame 14 years ago after playing Jesus in Mel Gibson’s religious blockbuster The Passion of Christ, Jim Caviezel has turned down several biblical roles.

The St. John’s Bible onstage at Kitchener’s Centre in the Square as the Grand Philharmonic Choir performed Handel’s Messiah.

St. John's Bible illuminates the Word of God

By Meggie Hoegler, The Catholic Register

Kids like picture books. So why should children’s Bibles be any different?

Peter and Jesus in a scene from the 2017 Passion Play.

Passion Play casts characters in new light

By Meggie Hoegler, The Catholic Register

If Mary Magdalene could retell the story of Jesus’ resurrection, what would she say?

L’Arche began when Jean Vanier was introduced to two men with disabilities through a priest friend, Father Thomas Philippe, in France.

New documentary tells the story of L’Arche and Canadian founder Jean Vanier

By Catholic News Agency

Denver, Colo. – The French documentary “Summer in the Forest” depicts the lives of four disabled men and their unlikely friend: a philosopher born into a powerful and distinguished Canadian family, Jean Vanier.

Master iconographer and art restorer Roumen Kirinkov offers the iconography course at the Sheptytsky Institute.

Praying with paint: Iconography as a conversation with God

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

Love and pictures go together. You can piece together who and what anybody loves by the pictures on their phone, the pictures they hang on their walls, the pictures pinned to their cubicle at work and the pictures they’ve posted to Facebook.

Josef Svoboda is an Arctic ecologist and professor emeritus in biology at the University of Toronto. He migrated to Canada in 1968, fleeing from the communist regime of Czechoslovakia.

A biologist's epic tale from a Communist regime to the Canadian Arctic

By Geoffrey Woollard, A Catholic Register Special

Wine from Raisins, A Life Transformed through Communist Gulag to Canadian Arctic by Josef Svoboda (Novalis, softcover, 240 pages, $27.95)

As the 45-year-old mother of seven home-schooled children living on a working farm, and juggling her touring and recording, MacMaster has learned to plan for prayer and plan for music.

'It's the Lord, working through the music,' Catholic fiddler Natalie MacMaster says

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

Whether or not St. Thomas Aquinas really said “he who sings prays twice,” it’s true.

Jesus is brought before Pilate as the crowd shouts its verdict in this scene from the 2010 production of the Passion Play in Oberammergau, Germany.

For the sake of Oberammergau's Passion: Every ten years, Bavarian town becomes Calvary

By Meggie Hoegler, The Catholic Register

There are probably thousands of Passion plays put on around the world during the Easter season, but you would be hard pressed to find a more unique version than the one held in a small town in Germany’s Bavarian Alps.

Students and faculty from Holy Trinity Catholic High School with their first-place award for the Stewards of Creation video: (from left) Kevin McCue, Ben Smith, vice-principal Ron Rapps, Nicole Branchaud, principal Stacey Krol, Ashley Payette, Jim Malyon and Nolan Laframboise.

Rural Ontario high school recognized for their stewardship of creation

By Meggie Hoegler, The Catholic Register

“The opposite of war isn’t peace, it’s creation.”

Laura Ballan-Kohn (Andrea Irwin), Fr. Gabriel Mejia (Evan Walsh) and Megan Gutierrez (Gillian Reed) witness Cardinal Matias Iglesias (Thomas O’Neill, kneeling) confronting his past in Omission.

Playwright presents the Catholic Church, world in human terms

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

How much truth does it take to really set us free? A young journalist, a Latin American cardinal and the ghosts of his past set out to answer this difficult question about sin and redemption on the eve of a conclave that could well see the cardinal elected pope in the new play Omission.