Today is World Pulses Day. Find out how beans, lentils, peas, and chickpeas could be your key to a spiritually fruitful Lent. ...read more

On World Environmental Day, Join Salt+Light as we pray for the protection of our environment with this special excerpt taken from Pope Francis' Encyclical Laudato Si'. ...read more

Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter Laudato Sì: Reflecting One Year Later In May 2006, former US Vice President Al Gore released the groundbreaking documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” While climate change debate has continued ever since, while concrete solutions seem to drip slower than maple sap in March. The question remains: are we willing to deal with this ...read more

Last week, Fr. Bob Reed and our friends from the Boston-based, Catholic TV, featured Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE, of the University of St. Thomas-Houston, in their program, This is the Day to talk about Salt + Light’s new series  CREATION. Sr. Damien worked Deacon Pedro and is featured on CREATION, our six-part series on the ...read more

Why should we care for the environment? by Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE and Deacon Pedro Guevara-Mann We began with a simple question and the quest for the answer led us to fascinating discoveries. We never thought, when we started working on this project, that we would one day have an encyclical on the environment, on the care ...read more

Last week, I explained how asking a simple question like how we should care for the environment led us to ask many more other questions, from looking through the creation narrative in the Book of Genesis, to discovering that our desire to learn about created things begins with a sense of wonder. Sr. Damien Marie ...read more