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September 22, 2017

Exhibit puts Reformation history in focus

Medieval rare book expert Pearce Carefoot with one of the 95 books and manuscripts from the Reformation on display at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto.

It begins with the Beguines — the Reformation, that is.

Published in Canada
April 12, 2017

Man of the Shroud exhibit in Ottawa inspires thousands

The replica of the Crown of Thorns shows a cap of Palestinian thorns that would have created wounds consistent with those on the Shroud. In the background, the Shroud replica hangs over the altar.

OTTAWA – The power of the Shroud of Turin could be found among the thousands of people who visited Ottawa’s St. Isidore’s Parish between April 4-11.

Published in Canada
October 13, 2016

Our Lady exhibit aims at renewing Marian devotion

A statue of Our Lady of Fatima is carried through the crowd at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal. Thousands of pilgrims visit the shrine each year. Lucia dos Santos and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, received the first of several visions May 13, 1917.

Toronto and Hamilton parishes are celebrating the month of October with a new exhibit on Marian apparitions from around the world.

Published in Canada
October 2, 2016

City of peace, division, or both? Met exhibit celebrates Jerusalem as house of mirrors

“The Prophet Isaiah at the Walls of Jerusalem” from three volumes of an antiphonary made for the Franciscan community of Bethlehem Venice, ca. 1401–4.

Four years ago, the co-curators of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s mind-bending new show, “Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven,” visited Theophilos III, that city’s Orthodox patriarch, and solicited his community’s cooperation.

Published in Arts News
August 9, 2014

Garden of Eden exhibit takes artists back to where it all began

Patrons peruse the artwork in “Back to Eden: Contemporary Artists Wander the Garden,” an exhibit at New York’s Museum of Biblical Art.

NEW YORK - If the story of the Garden of Eden is such a common cultural reference point, what more can be said about it?

Published in International
December 7, 2012

Word is out on eucharistic miracles

Word is out on eucharistic miracles

HAMILTON, ONT. - The stopping of an incoming tsunami. The conversion of a staunch atheist. Various healings of mind and body.

Published in Canada