It’s funny the things you remember as a kid. In elementary school whenever St. Patrick’s Day would roll around we would inevitably talk about the great Apostle of Ireland’s use of three leaf clovers to educate people on the Holy Trinity — three persons in one God! Then of course the four leaf clover would ...read more

Boast of weaknesses?? Not exactly what one would see as a common practice today, but that is precisely what St. Paul delves into in his Second Letter to the Corinthians — which also happens to be the Scripture for this month’s Lectio Divina with Archbishop Thomas Collins: A Year with St. Paul. Specifically, Archbishop Collins ...read more

[The Vatican Press Office released on Thursday the text of the Holy Father’s letter to the Bishops of the world regarding his decision to lift the excommunication of the four Bishops from the Society of St. Pius X and the subsequent controversy and fall-out. The letter, below, is powerful and honest read. In addition to ...read more

As the deer thirsts for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God. – Psalm 42 This opening line from Psalm 42 came to mind last week as I returned from a look-out on the grounds of Westminster Abbey, in Mission B.C. I had just spent ten or fifteen minutes looking out ...read more

[The following lecture by Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Denver, was delivered on Tuesday morning, February 24, 2009, to a large gathering of Catholic Business Leaders and public officials at St. Paul’s Basilica in downtown Toronto. It was sponsored by the Archdiocese of Toronto, the Salt and Light Catholic Television Network, ...read more

[The following lecture by Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Denver, was delivered on Monday evening, February 23, 2009, to a standing-room only audience in St. Basil’s Collegiate Church on the campus of the University of Toronto. It was sponsored by the Archdiocese of Toronto, Salt + Light Catholic Television Network, the ...read more

For weeks stores have been plastered with gushy greeting cards, displays of heart-shaped boxes brimming with chocolates, and little fuzzy bears with cheeky comments on t-shirts. Yes, it’s Valentine’s Day, and though refreshing, I’m not exactly sure if a bag of cinnamon hearts entirely embodies what love is. This weekend Salt + Light offers viewers ...read more

On February 1st, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad was enthroned as the new leader of the 150-million member Russian Orthodox Church. The 62-year old Kirill was elected last week by a council made up of 700 priests, monks, and laypeople representing the dioceses and foreign missions of the Russian Orthodox Church from more than ...read more

It’s the most recognizable pony tail on Salt + Light, and now it’s gone! To celebrate the big 4-0 Salt + Light’s Pedro Guevara Mann did something he hasn’t done since 1996 — cut his hair! No, it wasn’t some kind of act of rebellion to mark his 40th birthday (well, maybe it was), but ...read more

“Let love be genuine!” proclaimed Archbishop Collins thrusting his finger in the air… it was an ‘a-ha’ moment for me. It felt as if that passage of Scripture was new, and something that I had never heard before. Stressing the word genuine, Toronto’s chief shepherd spoke with conviction, with boldness. It seemed like an obvious ...read more