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By looking at Pope Francis' words during WYD Panama 2019, Deacon Pedro Guevara-Mann reflects on the vital role that love plays in our vocations.
...read moreThis week, on a special edition of the SLHour, we speak with Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB, about what went on at the Synod on Youth last October, and we reconnect with singer/songwriter Mikey Needleman, who
...read moreHaving participated in the recent Synod, Prevain Devendran reflects on how the experience has affected his understanding of the importance of "encounter".
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Ecumenical Update 2019
The Catholic and Orthodox Churches have been separated for almost a thousand years. But since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s and th...
Year in Review 2018
To say it was a tumultuous time to be Catholic in 2018 would be an understatement. In a year chock full of news about the Synod, scandals, and Canada Summer Jobs, what are we to make of it all?

Catholic Focus: The House the Sisters Built
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of St. Mary’s Academy, an all-girls Catholic school in Winnipeg. Entrusted to the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesu...
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NEW VATICAN CONNECTIONS
The Vatican. The name alone invokes the mystery and pageantry of the Catholic Church. It’s the headquarters of a two-thousand year old institution and a closely guarded city-state where the more imaginative could easily come up with sinister theories about what may lie within....
NEW PERSPECTIVES DAILY
Tune in Monday through Thursday at 7pm ET for our 5-minute daily current affairs edition of Perspectives, covering major Catholic headlines from around the world.

Every Monday to Thursday
Charity Without Borders
The Church of today, like yesterday, is largely involved in the lives of the most fragile people across every continent. Our journalist and reporter Charles Le Bourgeois flies to the ends of the earth, ‘to the peripheries’ to create a series of reports on the Church’s encounter with those who are suffering.
NEW Lectio Divina
is not a catechesis or a teaching but it is a prayer, a divine reading, a personal encounter with God in Sacred Scripture. Each episode begins with a glimpse of Cardinal Collins presiding over Vespers at St. Michael's Cathedral in downtown Toronto. Lectio Divina follows immediately afterwards.
SYNOD OF BISHOP 2018
During October 3-28, 2018, Catholic bishops from around the world will gather in Rome for the 15th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment”.
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Taking the Pulse: Youth, Faith & Vocations
In preparation for the Synod on “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment” Deacon Pedro Guevara-Mann speaks with young people, taking their pulse on some of the big questions in life, and tries to identify the most effective ways to announce the Good News to young people today.
Pope Francis 5th Anniversary
Five years ago Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. In so many ways, Francis has been a pope of firsts: the first Latin American; the first Jesuit; the first pope to take the name Francis after the free-spirited saint of the medieval period. ... read more
Creation
Why should we care for the environment? This is the question that Salt + Light, in partnership with the Environmental Science and Studies Department of the University Of St. Thomas in Houston, addresses with this new six-part documentary series ...
A WOMAN'S VOICE
A Woman’s Voice: Conversations of Discernment and Grace, we hear the voices of eleven women from around the world and learn of the stories, work, and vocations that are enhancing ministries, fighting for justice, and influencing thought....
NEW Biblical Reflections
Fr. Thomas Rosica is a priest of the Congregation of St. Basil. In February, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Fr. Rosica a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
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NEW Daily Reflections
Rev. Anthony Man-Son-Hing is a priest of the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie. He is currently serving as Pastor of Our Lady of Fatima and Ste-Marie parishes in Elliot Lake, Ontario as well as Pastor of Ste-Famille parish in Blind River, Ontario.