Have you ever heard of Schoenstatt? If you live and were formed in Canada, the answer is probably no. However,  Schoenstatt is an international Catholic movement that was founded in Germany in 1914. Today there are secular institutes for women, priests, sisters, and federations for families and youth. The community is present in 42 countries ...read more

This post comes to us courtesy of Fr. James Phalan, CSC and Holy Cross Family Ministries You might recognize this as a photo of the Cristo Branco, the ¨White Christ¨ that presides high over Rio de Janeiro. However I took this photo on a very well travelled corridor of Terminal 3 of Heathrow Airport in ...read more

This Sunday was the World day of Prayer for those suffering from Leprosy, a new blessed was recognized in a ceremony in Vienna, and it was the Day of Prayer for Peace in the Holy Land.  It has become customary for the pope to have two children from Italy’s Catholic Action group join him at ...read more

Fr. James Phalan, CSC is the director of Family Rosary International, one of the many ministries of the Holy Cross order. His ministry takes him around the world visiting Catholic communities of all shapes, sizes, and demographics. This past week he was in the Philippines and wrote this piece for the Family Rosary blog “World ...read more

Tonight on Perspectives I talk to Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton about two recent trips he made: one to Haiti and one to the Holy Land as president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. ...read more

Over Christmas we were stunned by images of bloody attacks on Christians in Nigeria. This past week more attacks were carried out in the North of Nigeria by a radical Islamist group. However, this time most of the victims were Muslims. Catholic News Service’s Carol Glatz filed this report. ...read more

Today is very exciting day at Salt + Light: the Chinese language edition of Perspectives goes on air for the first time. The five minute show will air throughout the week at the start of the Chinese programming segment for the day. Like its English and French language siblings, the Chinese edition brings viewers stories ...read more

Back in September of 2010 when Pope Benedict XVI made his pastoral visit to England and Scotland to beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman, we introduced you to a unique group of youth Catholics known as “Catholic Voices”. The pope’s visit to Britain provokes not a little controversy, with many Britons insisting their tax dollars should ...read more

Every year bishops representing North America and Europe make a special visit to the Holy Land to meet with the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Known as the Holy Land Coordination, the bishops spend the week visiting Christians in and around Jerusalem. They get to see how the average parish works, how Christians live alongside Jews ...read more

Were you in Madrid this summer for World Youth Day? Were you, like so many others, in the middle of an immense sea of people unable to get the view you wanted? WYD Madrid just uploaded this video to their still-active YouTube page, a one hour look back at whole week of WYD. Titled “Cronica ...read more