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TORONTO - Before he was ordained, the young Jesuit Peter Larisey learned to take no for an answer. Practice makes perfect.

Drawn to art since childhood, Larisey wanted to study art in a serious way. Starting about 1959, each year Larisey would ask Father Provincial of the English Canadian Jesuits if he might be allowed to study art. Each year he was told, 鈥淣o.鈥�

鈥淥ne of the good things about Jesuit superiors is that they have terms,鈥� explains the 81-year-old priest, who continues to teach at the Toronto School of Theology and Regis College.

In 1966 Larisey showed the new Father Provincial his scrapbook filled with his published writing about art and the successes of his groundbreaking art exhibitions at Regis College.

鈥淗e carried the scrapbook in his hands and said, 鈥榊ou take this as far as you can,鈥� 鈥澛� recalls Larisey.

TORONTO - A new private Catholic high school that wants to open its doors to youth from low-income families in Toronto is taking flack from critics who argue the plan would 鈥渆conomically segregate鈥� students.聽聽 聽

David Livingstone, director of the University of Toronto OISE Centre for the Study of Education and Work, has concerns about the proposed model for the 500-student Toronto Cristo Rey School, which will be run by the Basilian order. The project is 鈥渨ell-intentioned but ill-informed,鈥� said Livingstone, author of How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs. He said research since the 1960s has found that mixing low-income and high-income students together suggests 鈥渓ow-income students are going to gain and high-income students are not going to lose.鈥�

TORONTO - John M. Cassaday, president and chief executive officer of Corus Entertainment Inc., has been named as chair of the 32nd annual Cardinal鱿鱼视频app Dinner.

The dinner, founded by the late Cardinal Gerald Emmett Carter and continued to this day by Archbishop Thomas Collins, has raised more than $5 million since its inception, with many business and political leaders attending each year. It will be held Oct. 27 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

TORONTO - Aaron Lewis loves to see the smile on the faces of people when he鱿鱼视频app done steaming and vacuuming their apartments. He knows that what he does helps people sleep a little easier.

鈥淲e make their life a bit more joyful,鈥� he said.

Lewis forms part of a Good Shepherd CARES crew that prepares apartments for pesticide treatments that eliminate bed bugs and cockroaches. Without the intense and detailed cleaning they provide 鈥� steaming, vacuuming, overturning tables, chairs and beds and sealing up openings around phone jacks, cable and electrical outlets, laundering all the clothes and sheets, etc. 鈥� the mere application of chemicals won鈥檛 eliminate the pests.

Getting all that cleaning done for somebody who can鈥檛 do it by themselves makes Lewis feel proud and satisfied with a job well done.

BRAMPTON, Ont. - Eight-year-old Ofure Akhigbe stands alongside 18 of her classmates as 鈥淥h Canada鈥� plays over the loudspeaker to calypso-style beats at St. Josephine Bakhita Elementary School.

As the school celebrates Black History Month in February, it also commemorated St. Josephine Bakhita鱿鱼视频app feast day on Feb. 8. The school is the first in North America to be named after the first Sudanese saint.

Bahkita was a former slave from Darfur who became a Canossian nun in Italy and lived there for 45 years. She was canonized in 2000.

On St. Josephine Bakhita鱿鱼视频app feast day, the school celebrated with a liturgy and the nearby St. Josephine Bahkita parish loaned the saint鱿鱼视频app relics to the school. Canossian sisters from the parish also visited the school and shared St. Josephine鱿鱼视频app story to the students.

TORONTO - There is no cause for sainthood for Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The painter who gave birth to baroque art was a scoundrel. 聽

A brilliant virtuoso with a paintbrush, Caravaggio was dangerous with a sword. He paraded about Rome with his weapon at his side and brawled frequently. In 1606 he killed a man. He was himself dead in 1610 at the age of 38.

But no one can claim to understand Caravaggio without understanding his religious world, the spirituality of his times and theological currents coursing through the Church during the Counter Reformation.

More saintly men have painted much less compelling theology than Caravaggio.

TORONTO - As the world's attention is focused on the unrest in Egypt, Canadians must not forget the political prisoners in Iran, say the supporters of two Toronto residents facing execution.

Saeed Malekpour and Hamid Ghassemi-Shall were convicted without a fair trial and deny the charges against them, according to their Canadian supporters. Malekpour faces execution at any moment, while Ghassemi-Shall's death sentence was commuted to a life sentence last year but is pending confirmation by Iran's Supreme Court.

Some 50 people braved a chilly winter evening for a candlelight vigil outside the University of Toronto's Massey College Feb. 9 to raise awareness of the men's plight.聽

TORONTO - If Scripture is a guide, the measure of Canada as a Christian country may be the nation鱿鱼视频app immigration and refugee policies, the Very Rev. Lois Wilson told a couple dozen people gathered at the University of Toronto鱿鱼视频app Newman Centre chapel Feb. 1.

Wilson was lecturing as part of the Jesuit-sponsored Naming the Holy series at the Newman Centre. Under the title 鈥淲ho is my neighbour? Immigration, citizenship and refugees,鈥� Wilson pointed out how 鈥渢he alien, the orphan and the widow鈥� are 鈥渏ust all over the Scriptures.鈥�

Old Testament law regarding treatment of aliens, orphans and widows establishes the importance of the individual in Western culture and law, said Wilson. In the New Testament Jesus Himself is an outsider who scandalously communicates with other outsiders 鈥� Samaritans, women, lepers, etc.

TORONTO - You don鈥檛 often get to see a Wicked Bible. There aren鈥檛 many of them left. That鱿鱼视频app because King Charles I ordered them all burned.

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library of the University of Toronto has a Wicked Bible on display until June 3, along with dozens of other rare and fascinating Bibles.

The 1631 Wicked Bible contained perhaps the most famous typo in the history of the English language. In Exodus 22:14 a compositor left out the word 鈥渘ot,鈥� leaving the commandment to read, 鈥淭hou shalt commit adultery.鈥�

But there鱿鱼视频app much more than giggles to the exhibition 鈥淕reat and Manifold: A Celebration of the Bible in English.鈥� The Bibles on display span just over a millennium, ranging from an 11th century Greek New Testament from Constantinople bearing the name 鈥淭orontoensis鈥� to an illuminated Book of Psalms in English produced over the last decade by calligraphers and artists under the direction of Benedictine monks in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Pinned to the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, 鈥淕reat and Manifold鈥� is a compact epic journey through the history of English language, politics, spirituality and culture as it relates to this one book.

TORONTO - A private Toronto art gallery has received thousands of e-mails protesting its controversial exhibit featuring a 鈥渂ullet-ridden鈥� Pope Benedict XVI.

Bezpala Brown Gallery president Darrell Brown said the gallery received about 8,000 e-mails in one hour from the American Catholic group America Needs Fatima which launched a web campaign against Peter Alexander Por鱿鱼视频app exhibit 鈥淧ersona Non Grata: The Veil of History,鈥� running at the gallery Feb. 5-25.

Brown first promoted the exhibit with a provocative press release called 鈥淧ope shot, Obama crucified at the Bezpala Brown Gallery.鈥�

鈥淧ope Benedict XVI鱿鱼视频app portrait is riddled with bullet holes, a less than subtle expression of the hurt and anger directed at a pontiff and an institution that has abandoned its flock, choosing to focus on dogma while its subjects suffer and, in many instances, die from its archaic policies,鈥� the release read, referring to the clergy abuse scandal that has rocked the Church.