Christ is risen, truly He is risen, alleluia! After 40 days of Lent, a somber Holy Week, the powerful and moving Easter Triduum, we have launched into the Easter season. It’s a time of joy, of hope, of new life! It’s the perfect time to rejoice in our faith. One excellent way to celebrate and ...read more

Already Lent is drawing to the end. This Sunday is Palm Sunday, and so we stand at the cusp of Holy Week. Salt + Light Television is pleased to bring you full coverage of Palm Sunday Mass and the Easter Triduum from Rome, all celebrated by His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI. We’ll also be providing ...read more

There’s certainly no doubt that being a mother can be challenging. But at the same time it is a glorious and beautiful vocation. In 2007 Salt + Light Television began a project to explore and celebrate the vocation of motherhood. Headed by producer Gillian Kantor, the result was our 13-part series Mothering, Full of Grace. ...read more

Today is the feast of St. Joseph, the patron saint of Canada. You probably won’t see people gathering for massive celebrations like they did two days ago for St. Patrick’s Day. There won’t be people in funny hats. No t-shirts with lillies. But why would there be? That doesn’t seem to fit our idea of ...read more

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