As many of you know, the classical music trio, The Priests released their second album, Harmony, last week. They will be in Toronto at the end of this week, Friday, December 4th, offering a special performance at St. Paul’s Basilica. The evening will feature songs from their second album with a percentage of proceeds going ...read more

Two Sundays ago, I attended Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The 5:30am liturgy is the first of several of the day; at 7:00am, for instance, the Greek Orthodox celebrate the Divine Liturgy in the same common area, beginning in the Chapel of the Sepulchre and proceeding to their portion of ...read more

It’s the first Sunday of Advent this weekend. To mark the beginning of this time of preparation for the Lord, Pope Benedict XVI will preside over First Vespers at St. Peter’s in Rome. You can catch this live, in its original broadcast audio, on Salt + Light Television Saturday, November 28th at 11am ET/8am PT, ...read more

I had been explaining some red-flags that I found in the book Final Exit by Derek Humphry (see Part II, and also Part I), and ended up talking about relativism: you may not want euthanasia for yourself, but don’t impose your beliefs on someone else, which is the number one flaw with this book, and ...read more

As many of you know, we’re spreading our Catholic message of hope to listeners of XM and Sirius Satellite Radios. In case you didn’t know, through a partnership with the Catholic Channel (Sirius Satellite Radio 159 and XM Radio 117), Salt +Light Television has a weekly program, Saturdays at 10pm ET called, appropriately enough, S+L ...read more

On Sunday, November 22nd, Salt and Light aired the Beatification of Mother Marie Alphonsine Daniel Ghattas. (If you missed it, you can catch the Italian language rebroadcast Tuesday, November 24th at 3:30pm ET.) This little-known “beata” is the founder of the Rosary Sisters, a religious community whose primary task is the education of girls and ...read more

In Part I, I gave a background on the author of the book Final Exit, Mr. Derek Humphry and the Right-to-Die people. I do believe that the book is very compelling, but it contains some red flags. Here are some of them: He is very proud of his book. I cannot mention the number of ...read more

To order season one of Nothing More Beautiful online visit our webstore HERE or, in Canada, call 1-888-302-7181. The first episode of the second year of Nothing More Beautiful was broadcast in November. Watch for the remaining four episodes of Nothing More Beautiful’s second year in December 2009, and February, April and June 2010. ...read more

As seen on the Friday edition of Zoom, over two hundred artists, including Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt, will meet with Pope Benedict XVI in the Sistine Chapel this Saturday. The event begins with a musical interlude, followed by the Holy Father’s address the artists. Later in the day, the President of the Pontifical Council for ...read more

Two weeks ago today, I finally made a visit to the Royal Ontario Museum for their exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Much of the exhibit was focused on providing context to the scrolls, as well as the brief history of their finding and restoration. One week ago today, I was scheduled to be in ...read more