Arts

Canadian producer launches Catholic children's show

jean.kodin@catholicregister.org (Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register) — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 14:09:22 -0400

If we can teach children the importance of sharing and tidying up through a cheerful song on a TV show, then why can’t we use this same medium to teach them about the faith?

Saskatoon mom and daughter team up for prayer book

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:49:23 -0400

SASKATOON – Leah Perrault was already the author of two books when a publisher approached her last summer about writing a family-oriented resource book for Lent.

Passion Play casts characters in new light

mhoegler@catholicregister.org (Meggie Hoegler, The Catholic Register) — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:32:18 -0400

If Mary Magdalene could retell the story of Jesus’ resurrection, what would she say?

Prayer, Eucharist prepares Jim Caviezel for latest biblical role

jean.kodin@catholicregister.org (Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register) — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 10:07:46 -0400

Since he shot to fame 14 years ago after playing Jesus in Mel Gibson��Ƶapp religious blockbuster The Passion of Christ, Jim Caviezel has turned down several biblical roles.

St. John's Bible illuminates the Word of God

mhoegler@catholicregister.org (Meggie Hoegler, The Catholic Register) — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:36:41 -0400

Kids like picture books. So why should children��Ƶapp Bibles be any different?

New documentary tells the story of L’Arche and Canadian founder Jean Vanier

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:15:34 -0400

Denver, Colo. – The French documentary “Summer in the Forest” depicts the lives of four disabled men and their unlikely friend: a philosopher born into a powerful and distinguished Canadian family, Jean Vanier.

A biologist's epic tale from a Communist regime to the Canadian Arctic

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:42:53 -0400

Wine from Raisins, A Life Transformed through Communist Gulag to Canadian Arctic by Josef Svoboda (Novalis, softcover, 240 pages, $27.95)

Praying with paint: Iconography as a conversation with God

mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:40:09 -0400

Love and pictures go together. You can piece together who and what anybody loves by the pictures on their phone, the pictures they hang on their walls, the pictures pinned to their cubicle at work and the pictures they’ve posted to Facebook.

For the sake of Oberammergau's Passion: Every ten years, Bavarian town becomes Calvary

mhoegler@catholicregister.org (Meggie Hoegler, The Catholic Register) — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:32:01 -0500

There are probably thousands of Passion plays put on around the world during the Easter season, but you would be hard pressed to find a more unique version than the one held in a small town in Germany��Ƶapp Bavarian Alps.

'It's the Lord, working through the music,' Catholic fiddler Natalie MacMaster says

mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:14:25 -0500

Whether or not St. Thomas Aquinas really said “he who sings prays twice,” it��Ƶapp true.