Arts News
MONTREAL - Two paintings of Montreal’s St. Patrick’s Basilica bathed in the amber glow of a late winter afternoon serve as something of a muted introduction to the Colours of Jazz, a dynamic exhibition of artwork turning heads in Montreal.
A funny thing happened in that Joke with the Pope contest …
By Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News ServiceThe Joke with the Pope contest is over and the winner is … a rabbi.
Faith overcomes doubt in moment of trial
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register“Where there is doubt, faith.”
How ABC’s ‘The Muppets’ killed Jim Henson’s vision of making the world a kinder place
By Brandon Ambrosino, Religion News ServiceThe Muppets are back — and they’re having a lot of sex.
Philip Neri’s ‘mysticism’ bursts forth in love
By John Bentley Mays, Catholic Register SpecialOver the exactly 500 years since the birth at Florence of Philip Neri, each age has fashioned a portrait of the saint in colours suggested by its own needs, fashions, tastes. There is an Italian baroque Philip, for example, all miracles and raptures and surprises. The Enlightenment gave us Goethe’s anti-establishment, sceptical Philip, while 19th-century Catholic romanticism proposed a pious “reformer from within” for veneration.
New Vatican arts app highlights museum pieces, restoration
By Rosie Scammell, Religion News ServiceVATICAN CITY - The Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums has released a smartphone app to help culture enthusiasts learn about the works owned by the Holy See — and as a novel way of encouraging art lovers to help fund restoration.
‘Fish-out-of-water’ priest fodder for CBC comedy
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterFr. Rajumr Chebattina got his 15 minutes of fame in early July when he was featured with Fr. Paul Batchilder on CBC’s new summer series, Still Standing.
The positives of radio
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterIn a nation where violence is no stranger to its youth, a group of Salvadoran teenagers stand as a hope for their country’s future.
Joyful service takes on a reggae beat
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Toronto has never heard the Gospel told like this.
Hope rises that papal encyclical on environment will address vitality of water sources
By Barbara J. Fraser, Catholic News ServiceIQUITOS, Peru - As floodwaters rose with heavy rains in this Amazonian city, Graciela Tejada and her neighbours found greasy slaughterhouse offal, human feces and used hypodermic needles floating practically to their doorsteps.
Bringing the human back into hospital design
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - People go to hospital in the hope of feeling better. But if patients are welcomed into a forbidding, institutional room with a strange bed, fluorescent lights and cold, hard floor, what then?