Cambridge artist's monstrance a gift to Benedict XVI
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.
From Genesis to the Apocalypse
Play asks the ethical questions that need to be asked
Chimera is an engaging play about a topic which is rarely dealt with in theatre. For that reason alone it is well worth seeing, but it is also well acted and well staged, thought provoking and topical.
Giller Award winner has sense of service
TORONTO - One gets the sense from reading selections from Dr. Vincent Lam's Scotiabank-Giller Prize-winning new collection, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, that the author would have made an excellent reporter had his time not already been taken up with medicine and fiction writing.
Art exhibit tells story of Christ
{mosimage}WELLAND, Ont. - The One Called Jesus, a travelling art exhibit with lifelike, highly detailed characters, is winning rave reviews from visitors during a month-long stop in Welland.
Sr. Varley prays with paint
Digital revolution creates opportunities for religion
SHERBROOKE, Que. - There is a “digital revolution” transforming today’s mass media in ways that pose both risks and opportunities for evangelization, says a Quebec communications expert.
The Richard family’s love of music, each other, shines on CD
The Richards recently produced a CD of their own religious music — composed, arranged, performed and sung by the entire family.
Taking creative steps to healing
Franciscan convent outdraws Mayan ruins
Advent readings save us from twisted Christmas
TORONTO - When Kathleen Norris pulled back the curtain on what Benedictine life is really about in her ground-breaking 1997 book Cloister Walk, she wanted readers to know it’s not easy being spiritual. She wrote about loneliness and heartbreak and not knowing and just what it might feel like to haul one’s body off to chapel five times a day, every day, for the rest of your life.