Arts
Catholic music is a rocking success story
Under blue skies, dressed in black, stand the members of Christian band Darkness Divided. In the serenity of a forest clearing, the band members鈥� hands are stretched straight up, revealing streams of thick, dark blood pouring from wounds artificially created on their open palms. In the background, lyrics suggestive of Christ鱿鱼视频app crucifixion are belted out supported by the severe guitar and drum sounds typical of a metalcore band. This is a scene from 鈥淭he Hands that Bled,鈥� a single off the band鱿鱼视频app newly released album, Written in Blood.
It鱿鱼视频app a workable solution, says pastor
Here鱿鱼视频app something useful for your parish 鈥� a concise, practical presentation of creation care theology and ministry in 100 pages. It is written from a Roman Catholic perspective, in easy-to-read language for everybody, not just those with theological or pastoral degrees.聽
A Christian solution to crisis
The world鱿鱼视频app environmental crisis reflects a global spiritual crisis, and saving the planet requires a return to a world view centred around God, argues the director of the ecumenical Green Church program in Canada聽
Jesus is a point where Christians, Muslims can meet
With Christians on the run in the Middle East, and Muslim fighters declaring war on the West and modernity, one Muslim scholar wants to talk about Jesus.聽
鈥楶eople鱿鱼视频app museum鈥� of human rights to open
WINNIPEG - Carmela Finkel remembers feeling terrified.
Merton, a genre on his own
Simply Merton: Wisdom from his Journals, by Linus Mundy, (Franciscan Media, 138 pages, $16.00)聽
The Trappist monk and prolific writer Thomas Merton once spoke of the 鈥淛oyce Industry鈥� in a particularly insightful essay on several books about the eminent Irish literary giant. Little did he know that in a short span there would be a 鈥淢erton Industry,鈥� an industry which appears to offer no sign of waning.聽
Refuting Woody Allen鱿鱼视频app bleak world view
I was chagrined, but not entirely surprised, when I read Woody Allen鱿鱼视频app recent ruminations on ultimate things. To be blunt, he could not be any bleaker regarding the issue of meaning in the universe.聽
Understanding paths to, from the Church
TORONTO -聽My Brother鱿鱼视频app Vows gives us the story of siblings who are running 鈥� one towards the Catholic Church and the other away from it.聽
Just another Jesuit changing the world
Robert Blair Kaiser鱿鱼视频app analysis of what makes Pope Francis tick is a wonderful read and to be promoted. But it鱿鱼视频app not what I was expecting.
Teaching life beyond the football field
Genius looks like Bob 鈥淐oach Lad鈥� Ladouceur, who led the De La Salle High School Spartans into the football history books.
The struggle between ideals and pragmatism
Crimes Against My Brother by David Adams Richards (Doubleday Canada, hardcover, 416 pages, $32.95).
David Adams Richards is a writer who knows the human soul and reveals it to us in dialogue, plot and inner reflection. It鱿鱼视频app the author鱿鱼视频app extraordinary access to the truth of being human that makes us care about his characters. We know them, and what brings them joy, pain, hope, despair, guilt and peace matters to us.
Diversity is The Giver of life, film teaches
Depicting a society in which every aspect of daily life is state-controlled 鈥� even birth and death 鈥� The Giver takes moviegoers on a journey from childhood naivet茅 to the harsh realities of shattered innocence.
Martin Scorsese to direct movie about Jesuit mission to 17th-century Japan
Although evangelical moviemakers have been in the spotlight lately with features such as Son of God and God鱿鱼视频app Not Dead, at least one other prominent, mainstream director is also turning 鈥� or returning 鈥� to religion.