TORONTO - Prolific organist James David Christie is coming to Toronto to perform what appears to be a tour-de-force concert.

If bitterness, pain and the F-word are exactly what you do not want to read, then don’t read this book. But if you have ever questioned God or redemption, ever felt unsure of exactly what you believe, then you might take the challenge of riding with Maggie Prentice. She������Ƶapp the bitter, beyond middle-aged, alcoholic, anti-heroine narrator in The Walking Tanteek. She������Ƶapp also a compelling, not easily likable character who escapes anguish in all the wrong places.

Success, writes Fr. Ron Rolheiser in his new book Sacred Fire, has little to teach us in the second half of life. Where we learn as we mature is through our disappointments, boredom, resentment and frustration.

The man behind this book is perhaps just as important as the book������Ƶapp content. Retired Archbishop Sylvain Lavoie is a northern Canadian bishop and a missionary Oblate priest. He has spent most of his life and ministry working among Canada������Ƶapp aboriginal people. He has extensive experience and an incredible reputation with those who have struggled with addictions, generational trauma and abuse. He is in demand as a retreat leader, spiritual director and pastoral presence.

ROME - Spanish heartthrob Antonio Banderas may be cast in the role of Pope Francis in the first feature film to be made on the life of the Argentine pontiff.

In the era in which Catholics saw their first Polish pope, the Church in France saw its first Jewish cardinal.         

TORONTO - A smoky stage and the distinct scent of incense set the scene for the Vatican in 1978. It������Ƶapp a place where “everything is confidential and nothing is secret,” according to the sharp-witted play The Last Confession.

CBC budget cuts in April that will cost more than 600 employees their jobs left the weekly Mass in French relatively unscathed.

When Canada������Ƶapp Catholic bishops last year spoke out yet again on the environment they were hoping they wouldn’t have the last word on the subject. Now a Catholic video production company along with several parishes and religious orders are hoping to get Catholic students and parishioners talking with the launch of Green Spirit TV.

Todd Burpo never expected his four-year-old son to test his faith. But that������Ƶapp exactly what happened to the Nebraska pastor.