Arts
Pandemic halts theatric run, so Opera Atelier turns production into film
Resurrecting The Resurrection has not been easy. Over 80 singers, dancers, musicians, set designers and more have been through quarantine, donned masks, practised at a distance to remount an Opera Atelier production that was stopped dead in its tracks just before Easter 2020.
Book shines spotlight on poverty
The Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition is once again battling poverty in Ontario, this time with facts laid out in black and white and printed in a book.
Even in a pandemic, there is room for Christ
Fr. Harrison Ayre knows COVID lockdowns can wear you down. He’s felt it more in the last few months.
Picker priest explains bluegrass appeal
ROME -- Rome’s baroque churches, street-side shrines to the Virgin Mary and regular cycle of papal liturgies conjure fitting sentiments for a priest living and teaching theology in the Eternal City.
Knights of Columbus founder a witness for the world
The story of Blessed Fr. Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, is being retold to ensure that Catholics everywhere know of the immigrant son who heralded the birth of a modern Catholic Church before a deadly pandemic took him in 1890 — two days after his 38th birthday.
Graham Greene: a saint who would be sinner
On fortuitous occasions, the right biographer finds the right subject at just the right time.
Anishinaabe actor hits Sundance screen
Martha Wilson first noticed the performing gene in her son Phoenix when he was just two years old.
Musical flips script, adds nuances of history
WASHINGTON -- Danny Schur, a Ukrainian Catholic from Winnipeg, thought he knew all about the 1919 general strike that brought life in his native city to a standstill.
Restorer breathes life back into statues
QUEBEC CITY -- A self-taught hobby to save and restore religious statues has led Lyn Robichaud to reflect on French Canadians’ relationship with these objects of piety that often end up in the garbage.
Film to chronicle Our Lady of the Cape
Canadian Catholic filmmaker Kevin Dunn was spellbound when he first heard the story of Our Lady of the Cape.
New casting of Schmalz immigration artwork unveiled
WASHINGTON -- A new casting of a 3.5-ton bronze sculpture commissioned by the Vatican has made a temporary stop in Washington before it eventually finds a permanent home there.
Murals help artist reconcile a difficult past
Through a commission to paint murals at three Catholic schools, Indigenous artist Ryan Willert has been able to find his own healing and reconciliation with the Catholic community.
Netflix's 'Cuties': Exploration of immigrant experience or child exploitation?
NEW YORK -- Controversy has surrounded the airing on Netflix of the French film "Cuties" ("Mignonnes").