Over and over throughout 2016, Pope Francis spoke of walls and bridges. It is an apt metaphor for much of what transpired in the Catholic world in 2016.
One of the more interesting annual exercises for just about any media website is to see which stories gathered the most attention over the last 12 months.
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Nativity scenes are common during the Christmas season but few in Canada can match a stained glass window in a Winnipeg church for size and splendour.
Every year St. Michael’s Cathedral fields an RCIA class of 20 to 30 for adult baptisms and confirmations. A lot of that success starts on Christmas Day, according to cathedral rector Fr. Michael Busch.
If all you want for Christmas is to be more spiritual — pray more deeply, contemplate on a higher plain — there’s a 16th-century app for that.
St. Michael’s Cathedral re-opened this fall in plenty of time for Christmas, but the rededication was just one milestone in the $128-million restoration of Toronto’s Catholic cathedral. The work continues.
Mix eight parts family and a whole bunch of music, friends and dancing and you’ve got the recipe for a perfect Celtic Christmas in Natalie MacMaster’s family.
With the secularization of our culture galloping away on all fronts, Advent and Christmas can be haunting and haunted times of year.
Harmonknights ‘cram in’ extra cheer at Christmas concerts
By Tony Gosgnach, Catholic Register Special
HAMILTON – The audiences are generally well into senior years (and so are some of the performers), but the spirit in the rooms where the Harmonknights sing is forever young.
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A greener Christmas might not be such a bad thing.
You may have wondered, and rightly so, why the ox and the ass appear so often beside the Christ child in various images of the Nativity.
12 artists bring out the best in Christmas trees at Toronto's Gardiner Museum
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
Toronto’s Gardiner Museum has put up 12 artist-decorated Christmas trees again this year, but this time it’s about more than pretty baubles hanging from artificial trees.
From seeds for farmers to seed money for businesses, Chalice Canada has been evolving its charity work to match the fast-changing needs in developing countries.