Arts and Culture

Book: 'Towards Unity' explores golden era of ecumenical dialogue

April 23, 2017

Five hundred years of division in the Western Christian tradition has yielded 50 years of striving for unity — and some of the best theology of our times, Regina Archbishop Don Bolen said at the launch of a new book of essays on ecumenism.

Book: Practical advice to stop resisting happiness

April 22, 2017

It smacks us in the face pretty much every day — that sluggish, sinking-in-the-quicksand sensation of knowing what we should be doing, but not doing it.

New film on Armenian genocide took two years to make, longer to realize

April 18, 2017

WASHINGTON – "The Promise," a film dramatizing the genocide of Armenians in the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire at the outset of World War I, was two years in the making, but probably a half-century in the idea stage, according to George Winter, one of the movie's producers.

Sparrows choir takes flight with Easter sacred music

April 13, 2017

There is something about the language of music that transcends words.

Winners of the 2017 Easter Drawing Contest

April 12, 2017

For Jaclyn Dela Cruz, to properly depict the Resurrection she had to capture how Jesus might have felt on that first Easter morning.

Spiritual films can make magic with audience, says filmmaker

April 11, 2017

The magic of spiritual films comes from having an audience “lean” into it, says director and screenwriter Paul Schrader.

Young B.C. teen a musical star on a variety of stages

April 8, 2017

VANCOUVER – Eighteen thousand hockey fans listened in awe as a little 10-year-old girl with a big voice sang out the Canadian and American national anthems.

Top Vatican and U.S. church officials back new gay-friendly book

April 7, 2017

The Vatican’s point man on family issues and a U.S. cardinal who is close to Pope Francis have both blurbed a new book by a Jesuit priest and popular author that calls on the Catholic Church to be more respectful and compassionate toward gay people.

Writer finds surprise ending to quest in ‘The Case for Christ’

April 6, 2017

Atheist turned Christian apologist Lee Strobel took on the case of his life in 1980.

Archbishop Durocher digs deep into world of psalms

April 5, 2017

OTTAWA – An idea that took root 15 years ago is now a reality for Archbishop Paul-Andre Durocher.