Sharon Smith, center, presents a relic of St. Marianne Cope, and Sister Kateri Mitchell, a member of the Mohawk nation, right, carries a relic of St. Kateri Tekakwitha during the canonization of seven new saints led by Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 21. Smith’s cure from a near fatal ...read more

Our CEO, Fr. Thomas Rosica introduces “In Her Footsteps” to over 2,000 pilgrims in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, Italy on the eve of the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha and six other new saints. Cardinal Marc Ouellet presided over a prayer service following the movie, which also saw the Finkbonners present (Jake ...read more

  Salt + Light’s Sebastian Gomes chats with Sr. Gil Goulding of Regis College in Toronto. Sr. Goulding is an invited expert participating at the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization for the Transmission of the faith. — Photo by Cheridan Sanders ...read more

Pictured above is our very own Fr. Thomas Rosica, C.S.B., English Language Media Attaché for the Synod of Bishops, along with Salt + Light’s Sebastian Gomes and Charles Le Bourgeois. They are joined by the entire Zenit News Agency team of Foreign Language editors who are based in Rome. This photo was taken immediately following ...read more

Today’s photo, appropriately themed, is of a Vatican court room. Three lay judges preside over the hearing. Vatican trials are generally held on Saturdays because the judges actually work Monday to Friday as Italian lawyers, judges, or law professors. ...read more

Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. Pope Paul VI – Credit: CNS photo ...read more

Over the past few days, the “Church Alive” team has been shooting the bibical segments of their new series in the historic chapel of Assumption University in Windsor. In this scene, Sebastian Gomes shoots one of the promos for the series which will premiere on October 11, 2012, the 50th Anniversary of the Second Vatican ...read more

Today’s photo comes from Deacon Pedro Guevara Mann who participated in the Our Lady of Guadalupe Pilgrimage to the Canadian Martyr’s Shrine in Midland, Ontario. Hispanics from across the Archdiocese of Toronto gather every year in Midland for this special Marian event. ...read more

Salt and Light cameraman David LeRoss examines an original page from the St. John’s Bible, the first handwritten Bible in hundreds of years that was commissioned by the Benedictine monks in Collegeville, Minnesota. The page is from the opening of the Gospel of John, depicting the Word made flesh amidst the cosmic energy of the ...read more

Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors for Christ. To his saving power open the boundaries of states, economic and political systems, the vast fields of culture, civilization, and development. Do not be afraid. Christ knows what is in man. He alone knows it. So often today man does not know what is within ...read more