Arts Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:01:09 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Jerusalem divided but shockingly similar /features/arts/item/17758-jerusalem-divided-but-shockingly-similar /features/arts/item/17758-jerusalem-divided-but-shockingly-similar

TORONTO - When three young women, strangers to each other, were brought together in Jerusalem by an adventurous movie director they were surprised to discover how much they had in common.

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evan.boudreau@catholicregister.org (Evan Boudreau, The Catholic Register) Movie News Sun, 09 Mar 2014 13:25:37 -0400
Church treasures saved from sale /features/arts/item/17753-church-treasures-saved-from-sale /features/arts/item/17753-church-treasures-saved-from-sale

TORONTO When churches have a stained glass emergency — imagine a rock thrown through hundred-year- old glass — they call Mansu Han, artist, craftsman and stained glass superhero.

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ruane@catholicregister.org (Ruane Remy, The Catholic Register) Arts News Sat, 08 Mar 2014 12:01:46 -0500
Some reading to help bolster the Lenten spirit /features/arts/item/17719-some-reading-to-help-bolster-the-lenten-spirit /features/arts/item/17719-some-reading-to-help-bolster-the-lenten-spirit

If you’re not ready, you can lose track of Lent. After Ash Wednesday slips by, the Thursdays and Fridays of Lent can seem a lot like any other Thursday or Friday.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Book News Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:00:50 -0500
Russell Crowe really wants Pope Francis to see Noah /features/arts/item/17699-russell-crowe-really-wants-pope-francis-to-see-noah /features/arts/item/17699-russell-crowe-really-wants-pope-francis-to-see-noah

ROME - Actor Russell Crowe is using social media to try to cajole Pope Francis into seeing his latest film, the controversial Noah, which stars Crowe as the waterlogged biblical patriarch.

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Movie News Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:58:42 -0500
‘Greatest love story ever told’ hits big screen /features/arts/item/17682-%E2%80%98greatest-love-story-ever-told%E2%80%99-hits-big-screen /features/arts/item/17682-%E2%80%98greatest-love-story-ever-told%E2%80%99-hits-big-screen

WASHINGTON - The upcoming movie Son of God should be seen as “a love story,” according to two of its executive producers, the husband-and-wife team of Mark Burnett and Roma Downey.

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Movie News Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:39:09 -0500
Audio Bible enlists Hollywood A-listers /features/arts/item/17680-audio-bible-enlists-hollywood-a-listers /features/arts/item/17680-audio-bible-enlists-hollywood-a-listers

A Bible for the new age is taking Scripture back to its spoken roots.

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ruane@catholicregister.org (Ruane Remy, The Catholic Register) Arts News Sat, 22 Feb 2014 10:28:12 -0500
Salt+Light spreads its wings /features/arts/item/17646-salt%20light-spreads-its-wings /features/arts/item/17646-salt%20light-spreads-its-wings

CanadaƵapp Catholic broadcaster has opened its first French-language bureau.

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ruane@catholicregister.org (Ruane Remy, The Catholic Register) Arts News Sat, 15 Feb 2014 13:07:06 -0500
Still heroic superheroes /features/arts/item/17645-still-heroic-superheroes /features/arts/item/17645-still-heroic-superheroes

Superheroes have gotten too super. In their original form, comic book characters like Superman, the Flash and Spiderman were drawn in a way that emphasized their humanity as much as their prodigious abilities.

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Arts News Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:00:36 -0500
Papacy, despite its warts, is all good /features/arts/item/17608-papacy-despite-its-warts-is-all-good /features/arts/item/17608-papacy-despite-its-warts-is-all-good

Behind the anecdotes and centuries-long ups and downs presented here, Mike Aquilina constantly drives home his central point — the papacy never erred theologically.

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Book News Sat, 08 Feb 2014 07:00:37 -0500
The Golden Rule: a Magna Carta for GodƵapp kingdom /features/arts/item/17574-the-golden-rule-a-magna-carta-for-god%E2%80%99s-kingdom /features/arts/item/17574-the-golden-rule-a-magna-carta-for-god%E2%80%99s-kingdom

If thereƵapp any such thing as Christian ethics (and there is), most of us would imagine it might be based on the Golden Rule. But few moral theologians spare more than a passing thought on the crowning lines of the Sermon on the Mount: “In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets” (Matthew 7:12).

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Book News Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:00:44 -0500