Arts and Culture

Based on a bevy of metrics — box office, online streaming performance and audience surveys — 2025 has thus far been a banner year for Christian film and television content.

A recital featuring the talents of Catholic musicians from around the world is expected to be a highlight of Jubilee Marian Week in the Diocese of Calgary.

A quarter century has passed since Catholic author Robert Royal presented his book The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive Global History to Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee Year 2000.

Just in time for the lazy summer reading season, British Catholic author Simon P. Caldwell has released a second novel that combines the genres of modern thriller with, what one might call, sacramental or Catholic realism.

Canadian Catholic sculptor Timothy Schmalz is promoting timeless Gospel values with a new interactive urban pilgrimage in Rome.

If the best metric for judging a comedy show is the amount of laughter, then Stand Up for Jesus was an undeniable success. It also might hold a key to understanding what constitutes Catholic comedy.

While it only took him two weeks to publish a book on Pope Leo XIV, Dr. Matthew Bunson humourously refuted the notion that he had biographical sketches of all 133 cardinal electors all set and ready to go by the time the senior clerical leaders entered the Sistine Chapel on May 7.

Longtime Catholic conductor and countertenor Peter Mahon experienced a crescendo of joyous surprise on May 3 while leading the Tallis Choir of Toronto through a performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vigil” at St. Patrick’s Church.

Most Catholics could tell you more about the Vestal virgins than the Order of Virgins. Indeed, the majority might assume that this ancient form of consecrated life is a thing of the past like desert monks or stylites.

From April 25 to May 3, St. Michael’s Choir School will carry out “Operation Wild Rose,” providing musical cheer and transcendence to audiences throughout Alberta.