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Toronto artist Viktor Mitic sits next to his 2008 painting of Jesus Christ, the first work of his Bullet Proof collection which is currently on display at The Peach Gallery in Toronto.

Provocative art aims to show Jesus is bulletproof

TORONTO - When Toronto artist Viktor Mitic began his Bullet Proof collection, he started with the most iconic image of the past 2,000 years: Jesus Christ.

Bishop Ryan’s ‘rock show choir’ going for gold

Bishop Ryan’s ‘rock show choir’ going for gold

Students from Hamilton, Ont.’s Bishop Ryan Catholic Secondary School are going for gold — again — at this year’s Heritage Music Festival May 1 to 5.

The combined choirs of Toronto’s Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts performed the Missa Gaia at Holy Name Church April 3.

Student concert inspired by the Earth

TORONTO - The Earth matters to students and staff at Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts — it matters enough to inspire prayer, song and art.

Lucas Black and Chadwick Boseman star in a scene from the movie "42." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

42 inspires

To paraphrase the title of an earlier movie about the national pastime, hate strikes out in the historical drama 42 (Warner Bros.) Writer-director Brian Helgeland's uplifting — if sometimes heavy-handed — film recounts the 1947 reintegration of professional baseball after decades of segregated play.

A 355-person-strong group from Toronto’s St. Michael’s Choir School will be spending Easter and beyond in Rome, and will sing for Pope Francis at a general audience.

Easter prepares St. Michael’s Choir School for Rome

TORONTO - Holy Week is always a busy time for students of St. Michael’s Choir School, but four-hour rehearsals this year are not just for their requisite masses at St. Michael’s Cathedral. On Easter Monday, 180 boys from the choir school will board a plane and head to Italy for a series of musical engagements, and the opportunity to sing for Pope Francis.

Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster, left, with her husband Donnell Leahy. MacMaster, a Catholic, will receive an honorary doctor of divinity degree from the Atlantic School of Theology May 4.

In the good and true is God, says fiddler MacMaster

As a theologian, Natalie MacMaster favours the toe-tapping, hand-clapping, step-dancing-around-the-kitchen-table school of theological inquiry. The Juno-Award-winning fiddler now has an honorary doctor of divinity degree to back up her theology.

Lionheart will be performing April 6 at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto in conjunction with the gallery’s exhibit of 14th-century Italian art.

Lionheart brings back 14th-century hymns of praise

TORONTO - The Renaissance has always been worth looking at — all those gorgeous paintings and striking sculptures — but it’s also worth a listen.

‘Theology of dirt’ can stem ecological devastation

‘Theology of dirt’ can stem ecological devastation

Sacred Acts: How ChurchesAre Working to Protect Earth’sClimate, edited by Mallory McDuff(New Society Publishers, 288pages, softcover, $17.95).

Pacino di Bonaguida’s Tripytch with the Crucifixion, the Lamentation, and the Ascension of Christ from The ALANA Collection.

Renaissance greats grace AGO

Matthew Teitelbaum, the director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario, calls Revealing the Early Renaissance: Stories and Secrets in Florentine Art “the greatest exhibition of Italian art ever to come to Canada.”

Stephen Scharper signs a copy of his latest book, For Earth’s Sake, after giving an hour-long lecture on the role of religious imagination in dealing with the environmental crisis.

The environmental movement has much to learn from religion

TORONTO - Curbing the effects of climate change and curing the environment will take religiously minded imagination, said author and professor Stephen Scharper.

Tim Schmalz, inspired by a scene in Toronto, sculpted his Jesus the Homeless figure in Beijing.

‘Jesus the Homeless’ home at last

TORONTO - Regis College has a new resident. “Jesus the Homeless,” a sculpture cast in bronze depicting Christ as a homeless man, was installed outside the Jesuit school of theology at the University of Toronto on Feb. 23.

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