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

As many of you know, the Canadian Parliament is currently considering a bill to legalize euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. Bill C-384, proposed by Bloc Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde, would alter the criminal code to allow doctors to cause quick and painless death if a patient “appears lucid,” is aware of other treatment options and ...read more

I was in Grade 10 when I first sat with First Nations people around a circle and “smudged” with them. Smudging is a ceremony that is meant to cleanse the spirit as we ask the Creator to heal us. Sweetgrass and other herbs are burnt, and as an eagle feather is used to waft the ...read more

As seen on the Tuesday, November 17th edition of Zoom, the Vatican’s Secretary of State has written a letter to the priests of the Catholic Church in the People’s Republic of China on the occasion of the Year for Priests. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone’s letter offered special consideration for the Eucharist. “In this Year of the ...read more

As seen on the Tuesday, November 17th edition of Zoom, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall meeting is underway in Baltimore. The president of the USCCCB, Cardinal Francis George, OMI offered an address on Monday highlighting the importance of the priesthood and the role of bishops. See the Archbishop of Chicago’s address below: ...read more

Every year, over one million people visit the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. And now, this Thursday, the largest Catholic Church in North America celebrates its 50th anniversary. To commemorate the occasion, Salt + Light Television will be broadcasting a special Mass from the Basilica. Join us Thursday ...read more

This month at Lectio Divina, Archbishop Collins does a little gardening. Figuratively, of course! The Archbishop meditates on the parable of the weeds among the wheat. Toronto’s chief shepherd suggests it’s always a good practice for us to “check our garden” for weeds. Big fat, juicy weeds like greed, envy, pride, gluttony, lust, sloth, and ...read more

This past Monday was the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall. Thousands of people gathered in Berlin to commemorate the fall of the wall which separated the city’s east and west during the cold war. The wall was built in 1961 by the East German Government to end a constant flight of its ...read more