Arts and Culture

Refugees are a vision in bronze for sculptor Timothy Schmalz

March 4, 2017

Christian artist Timothy Schmalz is putting a face to the label “refugee” with a new bronze sculpture.

'The Shack' brings its Holy Trinity to the screen

March 3, 2017

William Paul Young initially made 15 copies of The Shack in 2005 as a Christmas present for his six children and for a handful of his close friends.

Documentary captures spirit of World Youth Day in Krakow

March 1, 2017

The Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy is over, but the call to mercy lives on.

Review of 'The Seven Last Words of Christ: Reflections' by Fr. Rosica

February 26, 2017

What do the last phrases of Christ from the cross teach today’s world?

Canadian bishops' Lent guides should challenge us

February 25, 2017

No parish or individual Catholic should have to walk into Lent blind.

Steven Spielberg movie to examine notorious Catholic kidnapping of Jewish boy

February 24, 2017

BOLOGNA, Italy – It was a heart-wrenching story that bitterly divided Catholics and Jews in Italy and provoked an international scandal more than 150 years ago.

Nuns of pop band Siervas says ministry spans service and music

February 19, 2017

LIMA, Peru – When people wave at members of the pop band Siervas as they drive through the city, the nuns in the musical group know they've arrived on the world stage.

Global TV's mini-series draws fire for dramatizing euthanasia

February 5, 2017

OTTAWA – The Catholic Women’s League (CWL) and the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) have condemned the Global TV mini-series Mary Kills People about a doctor who illegally euthanizes consenting patients.

There’s beauty in 'The Young Pope,' says Sr. Helena

February 3, 2017

For those suffering from a frail, forgotten or non-existent belief in God, the HBO mini-series The Young Pope has a message that may change some minds, says Sr. Helena Burns.

Quebec sculptor, who created a new vision for the cross, dies at age 77

January 31, 2017

Quebec sculptor Jacques Bourgault, whose contemporary, carved wooden statues of a triumphant, risen Christ on the cross hang in churches throughout North America, has died at the age of 77.