As I sit here typing this on Christmas Eve, there’s a sense of excitement in the air.  Christmas is almost upon us!  This has me thinking about our Christmas Focus episode this year. When I was preparing for the show I had a very simple first question for you — What is Christmas for you? ...read more

As we enter into Christmas Eve Day, Salt + Light wants to remind you of our Christmas programming line up.  We told you recently about The Priest’s concert, but there’s plenty more: Liam Neeson hosts The Birth of Christ, which offers highlights of Andrew T. Miller’s beautiful musical celebration of the Savior’s birth. Christmas in ...read more

A popular song describes Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year — well if it’s so wonderful, why are we so quick to rush through Christmas and move onto the next celebration? And what is this basis of this wonder? In this year’s Catholic Focus Christmas episode we explore what Christmas is — ...read more

Last week I told you about our Catholic Focus interview with The Priests. If you didn’t have a chance to catch it on Wednesday or Sunday, you can now stream it online by clicking HERE. The episode features two performances from a concert they performed in Toronto on December 1st. Salt + Light will be ...read more

We’ve got a great lineup of new programming this weekend on Salt + Light Television. As you know, Nothing More Beautiful premieres at 8pm and 12:30am ET on Friday, December 19th (with a Saturday 12:30pm ET repeat). On Saturday, December 20th at 8pm ET we have the Canadian premiere of the powerful film Testimony. Sunday ...read more

“There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with him.” The above quote from Pope Benedict XVI is the inspiration for a new initiative from the Archdiocese of Edmonton ...read more

This greeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz occurred at the October Vatican screening of Testimony. Testimony, which chronicles the life of Pope John Paul II, is based on a book of the same title published in 2007. It features a transcript of conversations with Cardinal Dziwisz, conducted by Italian journalist and Vatican ...read more

One probably wouldn’t expect three Roman Catholic priests to be the top of the world’s music chart, but that’s the case with three talented clergyman from Ireland. Fathers Eugene and Martin O’Hagan and Father David Delargy are collectively, and fittingly, known as The Priests, and they’re topping charts in Europe where their self-titled classical debut ...read more

After producing a season of Mothering, Full of Grace, Salt + Light’s Gillian Kantor will be taking a break to do her own mothering. On December 15th, Gillian and her husband David gave birth to a baby boy!  Mom, baby, and Dad are doing great! Never one to shy away from technology, the Kantors have ...read more

This blog is coming to you from chilly Edmonton (to be quite honest, it’s very pleasant here, and it’s actually been colder in Toronto recently… welcome to winter!). I’m here with Salt + Light cameraman Wally Tello to film a new project by the Archdiocese of Edmonton called Nothing More Beautiful. Nothing More Beautiful is ...read more