Film examines Cardinal's Lustiger's conflict between his roots, Catholicism
In the era in which Catholics saw their first Polish pope, the Church in France saw its first Jewish cardinal.
Intrigue among the incense
TORONTO - 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
CBC budget cuts in April that will cost more than 600 employees their jobs left the weekly Mass in French relatively unscathed.
Talking Green Spirit
When 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.
A son’s journey opens father’s eyes
Todd Burpo never expected his four-year-old son to test his faith. But that’s exactly what happened to the Nebraska pastor.
World is making progress in ending war
Cynicism is tempting because it’s easy. Hope is hard work. At 85 peace activist, retired ambassador to the United Nations, former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister and Senator Douglas Roche refuses to take the easy way.
Noah director not religious, but he says film's environmental messages are
WASHINGTON - Director Darren Aronofsky says he is not religious, and that his Russell Crowe blockbuster movie Noah is the “least-biblical biblical film ever made.”
Heaven Is for Real
NEW YORK - "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength." Those familiar words, addressed to God in Psalm 8 of the King James Bible, might serve as the tagline for the fact-based drama "Heaven Is for Real" (TriStar).
Taking you back to 33 days in 1978
Thirty-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.
Church can do much more for human rights
A significant Catholic scholar of the post-Vatican II era is struggling to be heard on a deeply Catholic subject — human rights.
Spirituality at ease with life’s mysteries
Prayer can be carried by the simplest of words. For American author Anne Lamott, those words are help, thanks and wow.