Pope Benedict is encouraging priests to embrace new media and thus “give a soul” to the internet. The priest’s place in the digital world was the focus of his message for the 44th World Day of Communications, which was released this morning on the eve of the feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron saint ...read more

This past Sunday, Pope Benedict visited Rome’s Great Synagogue. Pundits were predicting a less then cordial meeting, but the Pontiff was warmly received, and the meeting was considered a success by both Catholics and Jews. In this week’s Vatican Report from Catholic News Service, John Thavis and Cindy Wooden provide insight into the Holy Father’s ...read more

This month on Lectio Divina, Archbishop Thomas Collins reflects on the servants and the wedding feast as found in Matthew 22:1-14. This is the dramatic parable where the king prepares a marriage feast, and invites his servants, but they refuse to come.  The Archbishop also includes the portion from Matthew 24:45-5: the passage that speaks ...read more

This past Sunday, January 17th marked a new stage for Fountain of Love and Life, the Chinese programming ministry of Salt + Light Television. Fr. Thomas Rosica, CEO of Salt + Light Television, and Fr. Daniel Chui, the ministry’s spiritual advisor, blessed their new office in Richmond Hill, Ontario, which is their first space dedicated ...read more

It seems that every day I am reminded of my own mortality. If it’s not news from Haiti, it’s news that someone has died – or has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. No one wants to think about death or about losing a loved one, but death is one of life’s certainties: we will ...read more

One thing is for sure: Mary saw the predicament the wedding party was in. She went to Jesus. “They have no wine”, she said. She is going around today saying to all of us, ‘They don’t have water to drink and food to eat in Port-au-Prince. They don’t have shelter, their houses have been flattened, ...read more

Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Ephesians 4:29 Four letter words of the expletive variety have never really been part of my vocabulary. Sure, I knew ...read more

The following article was published in the YSN newsletter, which is sent to the student journalists writing for The Catholic Register’s Youth Speak News section. The article is a response to the question, “How can you cover a religious story as a journalist, while still having a personal spiritual experience?” Though it’s been over a ...read more

After the security breached on Christmas Eve at the Vatican, some are questioning the security at the Vatican. Others are  asking, who is in charge of looking after the Pope? In this week’s Vatican report from Catholic News Service, John Thavis and Carol Glatz discuss Security at the Vatican. Obtenir le lecteur Flash pour voir ...read more

Following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI met with members of the Jewish community at the Great Synagogue of Rome.  Pope John Paul II visited the Synagogue in 1986, the first visit by a Pope to a Synagogue in centuries! The Venerable Pontiff’s name came up a number of times as many ...read more