In time for the 450th anniversary of the closing of the Council of Trent, eminent Jesuit historian Fr. John W. O’Malley has written this concise and readable account of the council that determined the features of modern Roman Catholicism.

TORONTO - Each year, across the Toronto Catholic District School Board, Grade 2 boys take part in a yearly ritual, as adjudicators from St. Michael's Choir School visit their classrooms and listen carefully to the small, unformed voices that may one day make up the ranks of one of the finest music schools in the world.

Imagine crawling to the bathroom 15 times a day with painful rectal cramping, bloody diarrhea and in searing pain from swollen joints. Then, when you make it to the hospital������Ƶapp emergency room, you’re finally rolled into, wait for it… a psychiatric ward storage room.

In Porta Fidei (The Door of Faith), an apostolic letter announcing the Year of Faith, Pope Benedict XVI urges us to study the history of Catholicism, which he describes as “marked by the unfathomable mystery of the interweaving of holiness and sin.”

]]> Movie News Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:52:21 -0500 /features/arts/item/15662-stained-glass-finishes-jesus%E2%80%99-story /features/arts/item/15662-stained-glass-finishes-jesus%E2%80%99-story

MISSISSAUGA, ONT.  - St. Marcellinus Secondary School in Mississauga is planning to build what may be the biggest stained glass window of the resurrected Christ in Canada.

Like Star Wars, The Divine Comedy and Moby Dick, J.R.R. Tolkien������Ƶapp The Hobbit is the story of a hero������Ƶapp journey. This helps to explain, of course, why, like those other narratives, it has proved so perennially compelling.

Zero Dark Thirty (Columbia) offers moviegoers a challenging account, based on real events, of the decade-long hunt for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

One of the best-selling Canadian authors alive over the last four months has been a 96-year-old nun who lives in Chofu City, Tokyo, and teaches women������Ƶapp Bible study classes.

Salt+Light TV has the Christmas season covered this year.

Once thought unfilmable, the musical classic of Les Misérables has transcended the stage onto the silver screen.