Arts and Culture

Choir school marks 75 years of making music

January 20, 2013

TORONTO - Each year, across the Toronto Catholic District School Board, Grade 2 boys take part in a yearly ritual, as adjudicators from St. Michael's Choir School visit their classrooms and listen carefully to the small, unformed voices that may one day make up the ranks of one of the finest music schools in the world.

The journey into medical purgatory

January 19, 2013

Imagine crawling to the bathroom 15 times a day with painful rectal cramping, bloody diarrhea and in searing pain from swollen joints. Then, when you make it to the hospital’s emergency room, you’re finally rolled into, wait for it… a psychiatric ward storage room.

Year of Faith cinema

January 12, 2013

In Porta Fidei (The Door of Faith), an apostolic letter announcing the Year of Faith, Pope Benedict XVI urges us to study the history of Catholicism, which he describes as “marked by the unfathomable mystery of the interweaving of holiness and sin.”

Stained glass finishes Jesus’ story

January 12, 2013

MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - St. Marcellinus Secondary School in Mississauga is planning to build what may be the biggest stained glass window of the resurrected Christ in Canada.

The Hobbit and its Gospel ethics

January 12, 2013

Like Star Wars, The Divine Comedy and Moby Dick, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is the story of a hero’s journey. This helps to explain, of course, why, like those other narratives, it has proved so perennially compelling.

Zero Dark Thirty

January 10, 2013

Zero Dark Thirty (Columbia) offers moviegoers a challenging account, based on real events, of the decade-long hunt for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

Quebec nun, 96, hits Japan’s big time

December 30, 2012

One of the best-selling Canadian authors alive over the last four months has been a 96-year-old nun who lives in Chofu City, Tokyo, and teaches women’s Bible study classes.

Salt+Light covers Christmas

December 24, 2012

Salt+Light TV has the Christmas season covered this year.

Steve Bell gives a different Christmas perspective

December 22, 2012

In Keening for the Dawn: Christmastide, Steve Bell combines the Christmas theme with his folksy sound and a soft country touch.

Les Misérables makes the transition from stage to screen

December 21, 2012

Once thought unfilmable, the musical classic of Les Misérables has transcended the stage onto the silver screen.